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NY Post, Apr. 5, 2022
“… the United Nations has proven singularly inept at actually preventing violence and isolating dangerous regimes. In fact, it often empowers them.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave voice to a terrible truth in his UN speech Tuesday: The United Nations is an utter failure.
If the organization won’t actually work to end Russia’s Ukraine war, he said, it should dissolve itself.
“Are you ready to close?” he asked the assembled dignitaries, after pointing out that the brutal war violates the UN Charter’s first article.
He’s right to ask. Long fetishized by progressives around the globe as the last bulwark of civilization against unending war, the United Nations has proven singularly inept at actually preventing violence and isolating dangerous regimes. In fact, it often empowers them.
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