At the United Nations gallery for its 80th annual session on September 23, President Trump directly questioned the relevance of what President de Gaulle called “that thingamajig” or “gizmo.” “What is the purpose of the UN?” He asked the Assembly. In other words: What exactly do you exist for? In other words, like the little boy in The Emperor’s New Clothes, during his barnstorming UN speech, Trump told the UN and the EU hard truths that the leaders will ignore but that the people were desperate to hear.

The truth is that the UN is very expensive, has no practical use, has never once achieved its primary objective (which was to arbitrate peace in the world), has been outrageously left-leaning over the decades, and does not even follow its own sacrosanct “international law.”

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Trump at the UN. C-SPAN screen grab.

Actually, its bureaucrats have made so-called “international law” the law of its successive secretaries general, who all share a fatal flaw: all are more or less communist-leaning and, in the present day, no less than third-world Marxists. That is to say, they are open supporters in favor of the Third World autocracies and, therefore, are against Western democracies and especially against the American republic that provides the lion’s share of the funds for its operating costs, not to mention its free rent on the Hudson River.

Remember that the UN was of no help in the Korean conflict or in the Cold........

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