The UN has failed dismally and despises Trump for his success

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 United States 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 and World Bank, to promote peace, 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.Antisemitism is now a UN brand.

So are rank corruption and profiteering.No one expects the UN to either prevent or stop a war.Aside from serving as a platform for national propaganda, it is increasingly both impotent and toxically anti-Western.Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.

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