From Multilateralism to the Old Policy of Power

1. The 3WW will come, if in ten or, two years do not matter. The only thing that matter, if only several hundred millions die, or a couple of billions. and after this event a few decades latter the 4WW will happen.

2. why in the world would you add subtitles to only some parts of the speech? His speech was difficult to understand throughout.

3. history always repeats

4. If everyone desired to own only enough for a comfortable life and desired to use all wealth to give everyone a quality life, we would have a complete reverse of human nature. For since the beginning of civilization, the more intelligent upper-half of society has hoarded all the land, wealth and political power.

   For most everyone strives to be enriched upon the misery of those with less education, less wealth or less whiteness of skin.

   All by intelligent design. All to prove the harm in it.

5. Yes sir~

6. Exactly! After mulling the strange case of an ex President committing suicide, the slaughter of 300 people in Sri Lanka clarified yet another part of the deep state for me.
   Recall how we planned to be the police of the Pacific in anticipating intercepting drug shipments from Afghanistan in trans-ocean cargo carriers. That went down in flames but the global police have yet to hear the NO in capital letters. Their sticky fingers are everywhere in the net, cel, and satellite communications. The US global police are chomping at the bit to be seen as the Homeland Security of the world, in spite of refusals everywhere. Sanctions fly, condemnation of anything not promoted by the US is rife, and to addict the world to our supremacy, we have the Trump circus, calculated to enthrall by its demeaning nastiness.
   We want the world watching our every move, after all, no publicity is bad publicity.
   What a shock to wake up to this diabolical plot to capture the world adoration of our public excoriation. After the horrific murders in Sri Lanka, I suddenly realized that all the media in the past year or more has been Trump, Trump, Trump as if the rest of the world did not exist, nor practice any other kind of politics except for scandals, nor have any form of diplomacy except 'knock down and grab.'
   My God, I was nearly mesmerized! Even tho I have rejected national tv, refused on line news except for the briefs. I feel like the fish who escaped the hook at the last minute when a rogue wave disrupted my rapture.
   Our global police seem to feel injured since the Sri Lankans acted as if they did not want, desire or even contemplate their domineering interference. The media covered their pontificating on high as if it was law, "We told them." Can the world exist without the US global police? Something tells me they are going to.

7. United nations waste of words…America tried to tell the world B-4 WW2 That Might is Right…(keeps us tight) and against the aggressive…

8. From the outset, multilateralism was a flawed principle. Theoretically, it assumes that all nation-states have an equal say or valid representation in international relations, an assumption that flies in the face of world history. When there are a slew of nuclear powers and small arms manufacturers jostling each other for global economic predominance in an environment rife with neoliberalism, multilateralism becomes impractical. By the logic of the Melian Dialogue, might makes right. Equality only exists among the strong. Therefore, it is not surprising the U.N. has become mostly irrelevant. This bit of news should pacify conspiracy theorists who harangue about the organization taking over the world. Ridiculous!

9. The merchants of death set the policies rules and regulations. And that's why we can't have nice things.

10. Well said! Another thought about Globalism, since the U.S. now embraces it, how can one have Globalism without a Global Gov't to manage it? Globalism makes the U.N. mandatory.

11. Noone has fought harder for Multilateralism this century than Putin and Russia.
    Multilaterism is the single word that defines Putin's foreign policy.

12. Well, it's no wonder that the U.N. went down. I couldn't understand half of his English. Really sad.

13. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the "triumph" of capitalism made the UN irrelevant. The old policy of power is being replaced by trade blocks and multilateral trade agreements. To the extent that the new economic order results in social unrest, nationalism is an unwanted, yet obvious response. An effective UN is not coming back. Existential threats, such as climate change, may never be addressed. There is but one socio-economic system on the planet, and we've bought ourselves a one way ticket. Technological innovation remains a force for change, but the political will is lacking. Relying on market forces to respond to climate change is risky, if not suicidal.

    p.s Waiting for these old men to die off is not working either. They keep getting replaced.

14. brutal.
    brutal and shameful for all of US.

15. I think human beings learn from their mistakes. The problem is that the US doesn't acknowledge they have made any mistakes. They have become a world power by killing. You are either with us or you are against us. If you don't believe what we believe, we take you out.

16. He talks a lot, doesn't say much. Globalization gutted the industrial communities in Britain, Canada, and the US. The economic uncertainty is what creates the fear he talking about. He does not really address how multinationalism is going alleviate that issue.

17. Yeah my god, we really like to keep it all as fucked up as possible…

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