Trump undermines US power, locked in quagmires in both Ukraine and Iran.
Mon 6:48 pm +00:00, 6 Apr 2026Trump doesn’t think you need law, allies or institutions.
Trump has made the phrase US protection into a contradiction in terms.
The rest of the world has had enough of Trump’s lawlessness,as have US citizens.
The Iran war has got the US into a Gulf quagmire, pulling US military resources away from East Asia.
Russia is no threat but is also absorbing all US spare ammunition.
Trump is acting against US interests, and the interests of the rest of the world.
Economic collapse, energy crisis, food shortages, as fertilisers are not being shipped out of The Gulf.
People everywhere are starting to complain at Trump’s recklessness. At the UN….
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In a spectacular display of solidarity and strength, envoys from such distant capitals as Beijing and Havana, Moscow and Tehran, Pyongyang and Caracas, Damascus and Managua and numerous other states stood together, side by side, in front of the United Nations Security Council, declaring their determination to protect the UN Charter and International Law, and holding sacrosanct the sovereignty and inviolability of each member state.
All these present, and approximately 50 more aligned, are states whose combined populations comprise more than half of the people of the world, and all have been victimized and pauperized by the predations of neoliberal capitalist states bleeding the wealth of their peoples.
As Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza read out their new statement, declaring the illegality of unilateral coercive economic sanctions, and territorial invasions, it became obvious that the power of this new solidarity, which includes China, Russia, Cuba, DPRK, Syria, Iran, Palestine, Nicaragua, Venezuela, etc., constitutes a formidable force which Western capitalism will antagonize at its own peril.
This is a long overdue counterforce to Western domination of the United Nations, a domination based on money, on the large payments enabling the US and other capitalist powers to bribe, threaten and otherwise control the direction of the UN, and distort and destroy the independence, impartiality and integrity which the UN requires in order to maintain its legitimacy, and implement the sustained global peace and justice for which Franklin Delano Roosevelt created it.
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Since the collapse of the USSR, it has become blatantly clear at the UN (and virtually everywhere else) that money talks – indeed money shrieks.
It therefore now seems obvious that the combined UN dues of these newly affiliated nations probably exceeds the contributions of the United States to the United Nations, and, if skillfully managed, this new organization of hitherto ravaged states will now have the power to threaten to withhold their combined dues, threatening a strike would could paralyze the United Nations unless their own interests, and not solely the interest of the United States and Saudi Arabia, are respected, and their own voices honored. There is incessant talk of the need for reform of the United Nations. It is probable that this new organization within the UN is the reform that is necessary – indeed inevitable.
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Carla Stea is a distinguished author and Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
She was Global Research’s correspondent at the United Nations Headquarters, New York. Expelled in a fraudulent fashion as CRG correspondent at the UN during the COVID crisis. So much of freedom of the press.
