Can the United Nations Survive the End of the Unipolar World?

March 5, 2025, 08:50 - Opinion

The world that Trump wants to build is one dominated by great empires. In this new empire-dominated world, order will be maintained by five to seven large imperial organizations, and their coordination will require an entirely different structure.

Author: Vladimir Moregov - Commentator

A bill regarding America's complete withdrawal from the United Nations has been submitted to the Senate for deliberation by U.S. Congress members. This bill, proposed by Republican Senator Mike Lee, suggests completely revoking America's membership in the United Nations and withdrawing from all UN-related institutions, including banning participation in UN peacekeeping missions and halting funding to the UN. The senators also proposed closing the UN headquarters in New York.

What’s going on? Does Trump really want to sever all ties between the U.S. and the UN, or is this just a high-profile statement made by his fellow party members?

To put it this way: Trump is at least not joking entirely. He has already signed orders to withdraw from two UN subordinate organizations, namely the UN Human Rights Council and the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. He also withdrew from important globalist organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris Climate Agreement.

He methodically cuts off all ties that attempt to constrain the U.S. and supersede the nation-state. That is to say, he shakes his absolute belief that nothing can be above the United States. Let everything that claims to be above the nation, that is, any globalist organization, burn to ashes.

And the United Nations is the largest bureaucratic organization in the world, a true behemoth that consumes vast amounts of funds, most of which are American money, and is busy passing resolutions that are useless to anyone. This is precisely why the UN is the symbol of the target of Trump's war. Just to mention one point, the U.S. pays $1.8 billion annually in UN dues, covering at least one-third of the organization's budget. (By comparison, Russia's annual dues amount to about $350 million).

Moreover, most Americans support what their president is doing. According to public opinion polls, the majority of Republicans and two-thirds of Americans overall hold negative views of the UN's activities. Nowadays, 20% of people are prepared to support America's complete withdrawal from the UN.

So, the appearance of such resolutions and bills is not surprising. And I suspect that if everything goes according to Trump's wishes, he will eventually do so. But not now. Now this is just a warning signal.

After the First World War, people first tried to unite all the countries in the world. President Wilson fought under the slogan of "making the world safe for democracy." The war indeed destroyed all European empires, including the Ottoman Empire. Therefore, the idea of placing all remaining countries under the same flag looked very good. The bankers and their vast teams, who were members of Wilson's delegation to Versailles, drafted all the resolutions of the peace conference and divided up the post-war world. The charter of the League of Nations was formulated at that time, considered as the prototype of the longed-for unified world government.

However, this plan failed. The U.S. Senate firmly refused to cede part of its sovereignty to a vague supranational organization. Britain and France breathed a sigh of relief and then did everything they could to sabotage the plan.

Thus, the League of Nations limped along until the outbreak of the next great war.

The fate of the successor to the League of Nations, the United Nations, was relatively more successful. This time, it was possible to get the U.S. Congress to accept joining the organization. However, the bankers' plans were even grander. According to Bernie Baruch, a key figure behind several U.S. presidents, the United Nations should be crowned with the "Atomic Energy Commission". On June 14, 1946, Baruch submitted the commission's establishment plan to the UN General Assembly for consideration.

The Baruch Plan meant comprehensive control over all nuclear field work and the cancellation of all "veto powers" within the UN. In other words, Baruch actually proposed an "atomic dictatorship" plan, not even American but a supranational "Baruch Club" dictatorship, with all power concentrated in the hands of this club.

It must be said that Berni Baruch's "atomic dictatorship" prospect made everyone uneasy. Even Truman, although unable to openly oppose the bankers, wrote in his diary: Baruch "wants to rule the world, the moon, and possibly Jupiter - but we'll have to see about that..."

With the joint efforts of Russia, the U.S., and the UK, Baruch's plan was thwarted. Shortly thereafter, Russia acquired its own atomic bomb (some believe that the fear of the "Baruch Dictatorship" greatly contributed to the Soviet Union obtaining the U.S.'s nuclear secrets).

After this failure, interest in the UN as an effective tool for a "world government" waned. However, the reality of the bipolar world made this organization a convenient platform for diplomatic contact between the two camps.

Therefore, until the early 1990s, the UN served as a platform for meetings between hostile camps, and since then, its existence has become meaningless.

In the new world that Trump wants to build, there seems to be no sense in sustaining the diplomatic apparatus of 193 "sovereign states."

Trump proposes something new to replace the UN, which once served as one of the top structures of globalism (similar to the World Health Organization or climate committees, through which large-scale projects to further deprive the remaining sovereignty of various countries can be conveniently initiated). Trump wants to build a world dominated by great empires. In this new empire-dominated world, order will be maintained by five to seven large imperial organizations, and their mutual coordination will require a completely different architecture. Once upon a time, traditional diplomacy (mainly in Europe) could fully handle this task.

Of course, we can consider retaining organizations like UNESCO, the UN General Assembly, or the UN Security Council (which currently has five permanent members: Russia, the U.S., the UK, France, and China). But it seems simpler to start building a new institution from scratch. Just as Constantine moved the new capital of the Christian Roman Empire to Byzantium (later Constantinople), and Peter the Great established a new empire in St. Petersburg. I think Trump probably thinks the same way: the rubble of the old world should not be brought into the new world.

If the construction of the new multipolar world progresses smoothly, the UN is unlikely to survive this process.

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