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Posted on 10/02/2025 6:04:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Trump, unlike the UN, is brokering cease-fires and curbing threats by wielding U.S. power through trade, leverage, and force—favoring deals over endless wars.
Historians traditionally blame the failure of the League of Nations—the post-World War I, Versailles-era dream of President Woodrow Wilson—on many things.
Its membership was small (58 nations). The League’s utopian rhetoric lacked commensurate force.
The postwar ascendant United States refused to join.
The winners of World War I, like France and Britain, were terrified of rearming, while the losers, such as Germany and Austria, were eager to.
Consequently, the League in the mid-1930s allowed fascist powers to make a mockery of the Versailles Treaty. It could never even enforce its own embargoes and sanctions.
Without big power backup, the League soon watched the Axis powers prey on weak nations and start another world war.
In response, the post-World War II United Nations was said to have corrected the impotence of the old League.
The U.S. was now in. Indeed, the UN headquarters were to be in New York.
Almost all the nations of the world—currently 193—eventually joined.
A “Security Council” of the great powers (and former great powers) would “police” the consensus of the General Assembly of all members.
The UN would spin off a host of subordinate globalist projects, such as the World Health Organization, International Criminal Court, and World Bank, to promote peace, law, health, and profit.
Yet the UN’s 80-year record has proved as dismal as the League’s 26 years.
Only half the UN members are free societies and true democracies.
The two greatest threats to world peace—dictatorial Russia and communist China—exercise veto power in the Security Council.
Anti-Semitism is now a UN brand. So are rank corruption and profiteering.
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Great reminder today by VDH that supposedly the U.N.’s number one job is to prevent wars. And it’s failing miserably.
A group of men and women will always answer to the highest bidder. Always follow the money.
In the meantime, get the USA the hell out of the UN and NATO!!
Fantastic article by VDH.
I don’t think the UN has stopped one war.
What’s needed is a League of Democracies where 3-5 nations have veto power over continued membership. Total free trade amongst them and every other one is left out.
How about America First, and the rest of the world will work it out?
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Instead of soaring UN utopian rhetoric or fueling one side with money and weapons to win these forever wars, Trump engages both aggressor and victim—even those he despises.
He offers neither sanctimonious Wilsonian visions of universal brotherhood nor “both sides” gobbledygook diplomatese.
There are a lot of lessons from WWII that are forgotten (the Holocast) but prof Hanson reminds about the main purpose behind the UN.
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American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
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