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"Smash it would mean, that there will be no continuing contact between the leading nations in this world. "

We have embasies in just about every country, and most of them have embacies here. I assume that is the case in most other countries. It is ridiculous to assume that communications among countries would suddenly stop without the UN.

If the US withdrew from the UN and proposed an alternative made up of exclusively Democratic countries that embrace capitalism, and that all foreign aid would be restricted to countries that prove they are embracing those concepts, they would be lining up to join. Those countries that wish to remain on the dark side would soon be relegated to pariah status. Down with the UN!

If the US withdrew from the UN and proposed an alternative made up of exclusively Democratic countries that embrace capitalism, and that all foreign aid would be restricted to countries that prove they are embracing those concepts, they would be lining up to join. Those countries that wish to remain on the dark side would soon be relegated to pariah status. Down with the UN!

I doubt that this will work. Your alternative exclusively for democratic countries would exclude such powerful nations like China and Russia. Furthermore it is unlikely that the western Europeans would join in and leave the UN instead. A new "American UN" limited to countries like Tuvalu and Australia would be simply ridicoulus. Such a development would only damage the US. America is for sure the most contemporary powerful nation on this planet, but it is not powerful enough to rule the world alone. The foreign help of the US is no important political factor in the world, exept to some little countries like Israel or Irak, who are completely dependent on it. Therefore this is no instrument to put on pressure to other nations.

BTW - The communications between nations would of course not stop in this case, but there would be no bigger global forum to discuss tricky business. As I already said: The UN is useless for solving millitary or social problems, but it is the right place to do the negotiations.