Posted on 07/08/2025 2:30:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
For the first time in years, we are witnessing multiple flashpoints, where the world would have looked to international organizations like the United Nations for clarity. However, what we see now are authoritarian leaders, testing the system’s limits. How far can they push? What consequences, if any, will they actually face?
It starts with politically misaligned regimes eager to test the will of “The West.” They push buttons to see the reaction. One such case: Nicaragua’s recent and voluntary decision to withdraw from UNESCO. On the surface, it seems inconsequential, since UNESCO is barely relevant, but in reality, it signals something deeper about the erosion of our international institutional framework.
First things first—beyond the specific roles of individual UN agencies, the original purpose behind the creation of these institutions was ambitious and yet vague: “to maintain international peace and security.” The ambiguity left room for wild interpretations. Somewhere along the way, the mission blurred. It’s as if no one was there to ground the conversation in a room full of wild ideas. Or maybe, there were voices of reason, but they weren’t convincing enough. Either way, the result is clear: institutional drift, that comes with consequences.
What are the costs of abandoning a structure that, for better or worse, has helped prevent another Great War? Even if the League of Nations failed to stop World War II, and the absence of global conflict can be credited to nuclear deterrence and NATO’s military umbrella, the postwar institutional order played a role in offering a space for rules-based diplomacy.
This is where the debate shifts to the question of institutional evolution—or as some might argue, involution—of the institutional framework that gave birth to entities like the...
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The Left has been doing that with increasing intensity since around 1900.
Obama gave the Left and the Dems a giant shove into radicalization in 2008-2016 and nobody did anything about it.
Get the UN out of American and America out of the UN!
Who in their right mind looks to the United Nations for clarity?
Before George Will replaced his brain with cauliflower he wrote "The UN is a smashing success and should be shut down before it smashes something irreplaceable".
He was right. And that was about 40 years ago.
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