Life is about choices. We make choices every day to improve our lives. Sometimes we make the poor choice, re-evaluate, and choose differently.
Nations usually do the same.
The UN was a bad choice that we refuse to re-evaluate. And it’s getting worse.
Created in 1949 by the victors of WW2 who believed that peace between nations had arrived and would dwell forever just because over the course of a few years, out of the million years of human history, they’d bombed a few bad actors into submission, the UN was founded, essentially, as a follow-on to the failed Kellogg-Briand through which some nations fantasized war could be “outlawed” and that other nations would accept this complete infringement on their sovereignty. K-B led directly to WW2, the most violent, bloody, and costly event in human history.
K-B followed the useless League of Nations that led to Italy’s rise as a military power by invading Ethiopia, and Germany’s rise via the Spanish Civil War and its testing of its (“outlawed”) rearmament there.
Yes, Germany, Italy and Japan were members of both K-B and the League…
Since both prior attempts at drastically altering human nature had gone so well, why not go for a three-fer?
The UN’s first test of peacemaking or peacekeeping came in 1950, when Red China and its proxy, the UN-created North Korea, tried a land-grab by invading S Korea. Following several stern letters and Security Council votes, in which the major post-war powers pretended letters from far-away bureaucrats could force local leaders to lose face, light on fire the money and popularity already invested in their war machine, and just do as they were told by their betters, a localized UN “Police Action” was approved. This “war” killed over two million Koreans, tens of thousands of allied, ostensibly-UN-managed troops, resulted in status-quo ante, and UN forces are still there, seventy years later, at an estimated cost of over one trillion dollars annually.
That money is completely wasted, unavailable for schools, scientific progress, clean water, housing, or the prosperity of those nations foolish enough to give it to the UN.
Had the UN been acting as designed, with a full complement present at the UNSC, even this “police action” would not have taken place, and South Korea would not exist today, having been overrun by North Korea… but the USSR was not present when the Security Council vote was taken to use force to stop them…
So much for stern letters followed by unserious combat content with not defeating the attackers.
The UN also is the world’s worst perpetrator of malinformation, bad science, medical tyranny and rising global tyranny. These useless and unaccountable bureaucrats think they’re in charge and will continue their progress toward being in charge until they are.
Unless we choose differently.
Rather than accepting human nature and history when confronted with armed attacks, and meeting the attackers with maximum pain in minimum time, the only time-proven way across all of human history to defend culture, values, territory and populations, the UN and those supporting it are content to write stern letters full of empty threats to illiterates like the Houthi rebels, in the instant example, and to those Iranians seeking to enlarge their theocratic empire, regardless of a bunch of weaklings in NYC unwilling to sully themselves with reality.
This expensive foolishness is most-evident today in the Red Sea. A gaggle of illiterates is raising the cost of global shipping, harming the prosperity of everyone dependent on that shipping: the workers making the goods, the shipping companies and employees who transport those goods to market, the consumers who work to earn the money to buy those goods, the increased cost of electricity generated via that more-costly oil, to say nothing of the cost to taxpayers of the deployed service members and ships of the various nations patrolling the Red Sea to keep these vital shipping lanes open, and the million-dollar missiles used to shoot-down hundred-dollar drones launched to capture and kill sailors and shipping.
(Pop quiz: Are we not interdicting the attacks on global oil shipping in order to raise the cost of petroleum and its byproducts in genuflection to the Green Goddess?)
In a nutshell, the bureaucrats living large in NYC are making empty threats against illiterates living in tents and huts who couldn’t care less.
These UN threats are made for the benefit of their supporters - people dumb enough to think the UN will follow-through on those threats … or won’t need to - and made to people smart enough to know they won’t… but do: Houthis who can’t read these letters and wouldn’t care if they could, and to Iranians being assisted by these same bureaucrats to become more prosperous while developing their own nukes.
These empty threats will result in a continuation of good money being thrown after bad, and the continued interruption of global trade. (The Red Sea will remain open in the threat of Iranian nukes… how?)
Were the UN and its member states serious about the problem, serious about protecting ten percent of all oil traded via sea, and the one trillion dollars of goods flowing annually through these shipping channels, and desirous of ending the threat and leaving in the hands of governments and taxpayers the costs borne by everyone on the planet of these attacks, they’d quit writing letters and annihilate the camps from which these idiots launch their attacks. They - might - even do something about the Iranian ability to fund & supply these idiots… rather than terminating sanctions and freeing-up billions of frozen dollars…
The entire world would be the better off for the prompt and comprehensive killing of these losers.
Proving its unseriousness, the UN not only is not contemplating a few bombing runs by nations wishing to defend their own shipping from these attacks on global prosperity, they are writing another not-very-stern letter from which they have “ eliminat[ed] any U.N. recognition of a country's right to defend its ships.” (1)
Killing the bad guys as quickly and efficiently as possible is how bad guys are best dealt with. Not doing so shows a lack of seriousness in protecting your own people and treasure.
The UN is not a serious organization; it’s a waste of time, treasure and hope. It’s time we understand this and choose to exit this boondoggle of bureaucrats.
Perhaps Mayor Adams could use the buildings to house the illegals that are “destroying” his city due to the mis-used “asylum” treaty created by… the UN.
Perhaps the political establishment could get Trump to go away simply by giving him the Turtle Bay property to do with as he likes…