Never like now has the current set-up of the UN appeared obsolete and unrealistic. The dream of peace is gone; the five permanent members of the Security Council only do damage control. In spite of the highest than ever number of peace-keeping missions and others the conflict spread all over and the real crisis remain unresolved.
How can one trust a peace-keeping Department headed by a representative of a Permanent Member of the Security Council with the right of veto:
How can you trust
How can you trust the
How can you trust
How can you trust France whose President before being elected promised to be inflexible on human rights ad then goes to
How can you trust the
And why would
And how could you trust NATO, i.e. the
Not to talk about all
The United Nations is now incapable of maintaining peace blocked by the five Permanent Members of the Security Council pursuing their own national interests against the charter of the UN. If ever there had been any doubt until recently, the problems in
The United Nations system is also incapable of dealing with economic crisis, in particular the looming food crisis generated to a large extent, but not only, by protectionist policies in the USA and Europe and by the policies imposed for years and years by the World Bank and the IMF. All what it can do is to send rescuers and food supplies: charity instead of self reliance policies.
Clearly there is no United Nations. I saw how it works, directly, through more than 30 years in the system of which
The Security Council set-up does not make any sense any
Longer: this is known since years but of course the five permanent members do not agree on any reform too attached to their obsolete privileges.
But who will take the risk of destroying the UN? Only a strong Secretary General posing the real problems can do it. Although if it continues like that, the UN system may implode thanks to the blinded policies of the
Time for a change and it ay come only through a major major world crisis: dark times ahead for the world.
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