The U.N. Does Not Serve American Interests

One of the most critical questions of our time is whether the Westphalian system in which sovereign nation states remain the primary form of societal and political organization or if it will be replaced by some form of global government. The U.N. was formed to establish the latter, and unsurprisingly, it has devolved into a trade association for corrupt Third World governments. The time has come for the United States to reassert its status as a sovereign and independent nation and consider withdrawing from the U.N...

... the U.N. was founded in June 1945 to prevent war by establishing a deliberative body which could resolve disputes in a peaceful manner...

The adoption of the U.N. Charter was followed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which breathlessly declares it to be “a milestone document in the history of human rights.” It lays out “a common standard of achievements for all people and all nations,” including a list of “fundamental human rights to be universally protected.” Whoever wrote this platitudinous drivel was apparently unaware of Magna Carta or the U.S. Constitution...

The UDHR bears a striking similarity to the 1936 Soviet Constitution...

... This essentially amounts to asserting that the U.N. is the ultimate arbiter of such rights and that this supersedes the sovereignty of any national government, including our own...

Unlike every other president since Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump clearly believes in American exceptionalism... I expect he will make it clear that any future U.S. participation in the U.N. will be entirely dependent on if and how it will serve American interests.