There has by no means been something like this Peace Council earlier than, writes Donald Trump within the invitation to this physique, which he despatched to sixty heads of state and authorities. He is undoubtedly proper. There has by no means been a company of states in historical past that was so tailor-made to the ego of a single man.
The statute of this “Peace Council” is the dream of an authoritarian ruler: Donald J. Trump himself needs to be the non-removable chairman and on the identical time the “supreme authority on the meaning, interpretation and application” of the group’s constitution.
The dream of an authoritarian ruler
If this have been a political comedy, one might chortle at this doc of vanity. But the matter is extraordinarily severe. Not simply because Trump – as his tariff threats towards France present – apparently considers it an lese majeste if somebody would not need to settle for his pleasant invitation.
The Peace Council was initially supposed to be created to accompany the peace course of within the Gaza Strip. But the preamble to the statute leaves little doubt that Trump’s purpose is to weaken the United Nations by making a parallel group.
This might additional undermine the already fragile worldwide order even when Trump’s “Peace Council” fails to resonate with the powers that matter. This is probably going: Russia and China are unlikely to be prepared to undergo Trump. And the Europeans must also say “no”.
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