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Posted on 01/22/2026 7:50:55 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The latest media palpitation about Donald Trump concerns his just-announced “Board of Peace.” Unveiled as an initiative to manage the introduction of tranquillity and physical reconstruction of that pile of rubble formerly known as Gaza, the Board of Peace seems to be filling all the empty space in the parking lot reserved for international relations. Think Big! The BoP now seems to take as its mandate international conflict more generally. Reporting on the fledgling enterprise, a story on ABC News mournfully told the world that “Critics and government leaders are decrying the board, saying it undermines the United Nations.”
Is that a promise? And more to the point, how would anyone be able to tell whether that monstrous, superannuated magnet for spies and third-world grifters had been “undermined?” Inquiring minds want to know.
I will come back to Trump’s latest action idea in a moment. First, I have something to propose for the United Nations. Many countries have the sads about the United States. Their leaders think Trump is a bully. They hate it that he plucked the dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife from their bedroom in Caracas and flew them, free and for nothing, to New York. They are weepy about his talk of appropriating Greenland and making its 56,000 residents rich. All the Danes had to offer was forced sterilization for the ladies, but we’re not supposed to talk about that.
But back to the UN. Why should New York get all the glory? I know the assorted despots like to come to Manhattan in their cloud of all-expense-paid diplomatic immunity to rail against the evils of Israel and the United States. But shouldn’t we take a page from that great Kenyan Barack Hussein Obama and seek to spread the wealth around?
Here’s my proposal. Untether the UN from the US. Beginning next year, let’s locate that august (in its own eye) body in various spots around the world for a term of, say, three years. Since everyone is so keen on Somalia at the moment, let’s move the UN to Mogadishu for three years beginning in January 2027. Then it might go to Ukraine for three years. Then to Gaza, where its great moral authority might help restore the tissues of that unfortunate stretch of beach-front property.
Meanwhile, the hideous Corbusier structure in New York can either be demolished outright or taken apart piecemeal and shipped to Brussels, where it can be reassembled and open as a museum commemorating the unique combination of corruption and hectoring utopian blather that the UN has always specialized in. As for its site on the East River, that’s prime real estate. I suggest transforming it into some useful for once, a golf course, for example, or putting green.
And what about the Board of Peace? I think that the proposed charter for the Board of Peace is correct that it might well be “a more nimble and effective international peace-building body” than the UN. I know that is not saying much, but one has to start somewhere. Trump has been issuing invitations to various nations to join in the new enterprise. He has also proposed himself as chairman of the board, possibly for life. The anxious chihuahuas of the press are yapping hysterically about that. Among those invited to join are Argentina, Canada, Australia, Egypt, Hungary, Pakistan, Jordan, Turkey, Israel and India. The price of admission is $1 billion. In cash, thank you very much. Some countries are reluctant to join. Emmanuel Macron is reported to have retired to his boudoir to pout. He doesn’t want to play. That’s OK, said Trump, but I will impose a 200 percent tariff on French wine and Champagne if you don’t.
There will be more to say about this week’s stunning idea from the fountain of new ideas that is Donald Trump. Just now, though, I have to pop round to my local wine shop to stock up on Champagne. There will doubtless be plenty to celebrate in the coming months and I want to be sure to be well supplied.
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I celebrate with box wine and filling my mouth with Cheese Whiz.
I don’t care but, just as at the UN, the US MUST HAVE VETO POWER.
AGREE that UN should be rejected/ejected years ago, but
wtf is this ‘Board of Peace’ other than DJT extreme egotistical narcissism ?
‘ AGREE that UN should be rejected/ejected years ago, but
wtf is this ‘Board of Peace’ other than DJT extreme egotistical narcissism ?’
Well, he hasn’t proposed it be called the Trump board of peace…..yet.
I don’t think these things ever work. Doomed to repeat our history I say.
Just America First it and work with other countries when possible by treaty and relationship.
I smell ozone.
It’s a good idea. 10 Kings. Let’s bring on the end times.
because the “board of peace’ is just as F-ed up as is the UnitedNazis, that’s way
1960s antiwar saying:
They should defund the Defense Department and make them into the people who have to set up fundraising tables outside selling chocolate chip cookies and donuts and coffee.
I would say the United Nations should be replaced by a 27-storey whorehouse, if we’re gonna be screwed, we might as well at least enjoy it.
Because thousands of child prostitutes will be without a job.
Communism always fails and communists always will claim that that's because no one yet has managed to implement the true communist ideal. A world police is the same story. It will always fail because if it had real power, and the autonomy to use it, in time it would become a tyrannical autocracy to itself. The UN's greatest gift to mankind is it's failure to accomplish its stated mission. Thinking something noble could result from a truly effective world police is absolutely moronic.
As Eric Hoffer famously said, “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” The UN is well into the "racket" stage now. It's run by tin pot dictators intent on siphoning off as much cash as they can from the world's greatest producer nations before they catch on to the grift.
The world should be governed by the use of force, implied or actual. We need to return to Great Power mercantilism. Every nation putting its own interests first.
“I don’t think these things ever work. Doomed to repeat our history I say.
Just America First it and work with other countries when possible by treaty and relationship.”
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80 years without a world war or direct warfare between the superpowers left after the last one is a pretty good success record, as these things go.
The UN was a creation of the USA, the treaties establishing it were signed in the USA, and the UN itself has largely served American and Western interests, while giving the 2nd and 3rd world countries a place to bring their gripes and fears for an airing.
It’s not what everyone wants all the time, but it’s been largely successful in the face of mutating politics across the world at largely promoting US interests as we understand them.
Enjoyable read. Thanks for posting.
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