Great article! ->

"The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ushered in an era of American global supremacy. But the triumph of this U.S.-led so-called liberal international order also required that the achievements of an earlier, more internationalist order centered explicitly on the United Nations be quietly slipped down the memory hole. As the U.N. was increasingly retooled by the United States and other Western countries as a technocratic mechanism for managing faraway civil wars, largely through humanitarian aid and peacekeeping operations, its previous role as a mediator between states withered from view. What emerged was an institution deeply enmeshed in the U.S.-led order but peripheral to the strategic thinking of policy elites in capitals everywhere.

War and instability are once again on the rise, as is the risk of nuclear confrontation. We’ve suffered periods of intensified conflict and great-power rivalry many times since 1945. But for the first time since the Second World War, we are confronting these crises amid the near-complete erosion of the U.N. norms, institutions, and practices that, however imperfectly, constrained escalation and identified pathways to negotiated resolution. Only reinvestment in a radically remade U.N. — not Mr. Trump’s Board of Peace, whatever its ultimate remit — can fill that void.

Peace cannot be improvised. It needs to be designed, carefully and deliberately."

nytimes.com/2026/01/30/opinion…

#UN #UnitedNations #BoardOfPeace #USA #Trump #Imperialism #History #Militarism

Trump's "Board of Peace" does not belong to the US government or any government or other public organisation. It just belongs personally to Trump.

Even if Trump was removed from office as US president, he would remain chair of the Board of Peace. There is also no way for him to be removed from the chairmanship, and he would control all of the Board of Peace's activities.

This is NOT an international treaty or anything like the UN. It's a private organisation that would be controlled by Trump personally, no matter what happens in the US political scene.

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#BoardOfPeace #Trump #Politics

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2026-01-20 13:09:03

Report: "The full text of Trump's 'Board of Peace' charter"

The charter doesn't mention Gaza. It's a charter for a parallel UN run by an emperor.

It hands Trump (personally, not as president) broad powers & charges countries $1billion for permanent membership.

To date, only Hungary's Viktor Orbán & UAE's Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan have agreed to join the board.

middleeasteye.net/news/trump-b…

#USPol #GazaBoard #USImperialism #press #racism #Europol #palestine @palestine .

The full text of Trump's 'Board of Peace' charter

US President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" initiative implicitly criticises the United Nations and could supplant the world body, according to a copy of its charter obtained by Middle East Eye.

^{MEE staff (Middle East Eye)}