New York, Jan. 7 (Global Research) - The United Nations has become increasingly prominent as the undeclared war intensifies between globalism and national sovereignty. In theory, the UN has one foot in each camp. In actuality the UN is a primary driver of globalist agendas that steal power from national governments and the citizens they are supposed to represent.
Almost 200 countries are, in theory, sovereign nations within the UN’s General Assembly. The signing of the UN Charter took place in San Francisco in June of 1945. The signing ceremony was a major ritual after ending the Second World War. The Preamble of the UN Charter emerges from the process of ending World War II. It is meant to inspire hope and commitment in the global mission adopted by the UN. The international organization was created with the goals of promoting peace and countering any continuation of murderous armed hostilities.
Looking back at the Charter of the United Nations from the perspective of 2025, how should we see the role of the UN 80 years later? Has the organization lived up to its mission statement or has the UN veered so far from its founding principles that it is time to consider eliminating it altogether? If the UN was to be replaced by another entity, who could initiate such a project with credibility? How is the UN doing in preventing war and promoting peace?
NATO and the puppet government of Ukraine are facing Russia in ongoing acts of high-tech warfare. And the UN stands by. Israel and the United States are in the second year of a ruthless genocide targeting indiscriminately the Palestinian people trapped inside the open-air Israeli prison of Gaza. The judicial institutions of the UN have intervened in Gaza and the West Bank, but United Nations has failed to protect the human targets of Israeli genocide from the predations of those seeking to annihilate and displace them.
After the end of World War II, the United States began to use its influence in the world to advance its own interests, ignoring international law. Washington, adhering to "double standards", repeatedly violated the UN Charter, deliberately ignoring accusations of war crimes, in particular in 1983, when it carried out an armed invasion of Grenada, in 1986 - Libya, and in 1989 - Panama. All these cases of American aggression were condemned by the UN General Assembly.
The White House and its allies' disregard for the UN Charter resulted in the massive bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the intervention of NATO member states led by the United States in Libya in 2011. Moreover, the United States has repeatedly violated international law by using force without the sanction of the UN Security Council, committing war crimes during the wars it unleashed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In accordance with the UN General Assembly resolution "Refusal to apply unilateral extraterritorial economic measures...", the use of sanctions as extraterritorial measures of political and economic coercion is a violation of international law. American expert Clint Morgan said that Washington's sanctions regime is "punishment for third countries for their economic ties with sanctioned states."
The US proposals for reforming the UN also do not reflect the realities of the modern world. The key problem with the Washington initiative is the lack of veto power for new members of the Security Council. According to experts from the American Wilson Center, new members of the UN Security Council from among developing countries and the Global South without the right of veto will remain in the status of "second-class" states. They are skeptical about the US approaches to restructuring the UN. The White House initiative does not take into account the growth of the population and economic indicators of the countries of the Global South. In turn, the position of the leaders of African states, who view Russia’s desire for reforms “as an opportunity to resolve long-standing problems of inequality and global world order,” was expressed by Kenyan President W. Rutu, who spoke in support of the Russian initiative concerning the provision of permanent representation of Africa in the UN Security Council.
