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The first fallacy is that no global organization can do more for us than we can do for ourselves.
Every effort to recruit other countries into some global group ends up costing us more than we ever get from it. The initial $10 billion that President Trump has promised to the Board of Peace is already ten times more than members of the new group are expected to contribute. It’s a better ratio than our current spending contributions to the UN, but it’s better than going it alone.
That takes us to our second fallacy: you don’t need an international organization to have peace.
Peace is pretty easy. International mediation of territorial or civil conflicts long predates globalism. The American Revolution was settled with the Treaty of Paris. The War of 1812 was settled with the Treaty of Ghent. Czar Alexander I had offered to mediate. King William I of the Netherlands ended up trying to arbitrate some of the leftover disputes from the treaties in 1831. Teddy Roosevelt won a Nobel Peace Prize by helping to settle the Russo-Japanese War.
Wars have been negotiated directly and arbitrated by various heads of state and diplomats long before globalists began pretending that internationalism had some magical way to stop them.
Read much more... The Trouble With the Board of Peace | Frontpage Mag
Every effort to recruit other countries into some global group ends up costing us more than we ever get from it. The initial $10 billion that President Trump has promised to the Board of Peace is already ten times more than members of the new group are expected to contribute. It’s a better ratio than our current spending contributions to the UN, but it’s better than going it alone.
That takes us to our second fallacy: you don’t need an international organization to have peace.
Peace is pretty easy. International mediation of territorial or civil conflicts long predates globalism. The American Revolution was settled with the Treaty of Paris. The War of 1812 was settled with the Treaty of Ghent. Czar Alexander I had offered to mediate. King William I of the Netherlands ended up trying to arbitrate some of the leftover disputes from the treaties in 1831. Teddy Roosevelt won a Nobel Peace Prize by helping to settle the Russo-Japanese War.
Wars have been negotiated directly and arbitrated by various heads of state and diplomats long before globalists began pretending that internationalism had some magical way to stop them.
Read much more... The Trouble With the Board of Peace | Frontpage Mag
