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The world woke up Sunday morning to intensified fighting between Ukraine and Russia, North Korea firing ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan and the real possibility of war between the U.S. and Iran resuming.

LILLEY: While the world burns, the UN looks away Back to video

Also this week, the United Nations Leaders’ Week takes place as the General Assembly gathers in New York.

The United Nations was established in 1945, in the wake of the Second World War, to “maintain international peace and security.” Let’s just say that the organization too much of the world puts its trust in is doing a really bad job.

Peacekeeper in name only

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will address the United Nations on Wednesday and share the same podium as Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, the man defending Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

I’d say that both are given equal treatment, but given the structure of the UN, Russia is actually........

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