UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
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From Reuters, February 4, 2026:
GENEVA/WASHINGTON … U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is sounding the alarm on U.N. finances, warning that the world body is at risk of “imminent financial collapse” due to unpaid fees and a budget rule that forces it to return unspent funds. Guterres has repeatedly spoken about the U.N.’s worsening liquidity crisis but this was his starkest warning yet, and it came as the United States, its main contributor – and debtor – is retreating from multilateralism on numerous fronts.
Like the institution of the United Nations he represents, the Secretary-General looks to be old, tired, bloated, enervated and hopeless—a man who has largely given up and is going through the motions. Can anyone who has observed the UN in action, particularly, over the last five years not conclude that its eighty-year history is overwhelming proof that, both in theory and in practice, it was an utterly delusional, stupid idea destined to deteriorate over time and would eventually collapse under a mountainous accumulation of bureaucratic impotence, incompetence and corruption? Would it be mistaken to allege that the portended “imminent financial collapse” is the inevitable result of its failed mission, which acording to Article 1 of the UN Charter, is “to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, foster cooperation to solve international problems, and promote human rights”? If one surveys the current state of international affairs, not a single one of these four grandiose aims has come close to fruition.
Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations failed spectacularly to “make the world safe for democracy.” So, twenty years later along came FDR, whose grasp on the reality of international politics may have been even more reality-averse than Wilson’s. “I think that if I [FDR] give him [Stalin] everything that I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work for a world of democracy and peace.”
Apparently, he believed that Stalin, who had already murdered three or four million peasants in Ukraine before WWII got started, and invaded eastern Poland in 1939, would join hands with its US partner against the vanquished Hitler to attempt a second go-around of Wilson’s fantasy of making the world into a giant “democracy.”
The United Nations would achieve world peace where the League of Nations had failed. Was Franklin Roosevelt anything other than a deluded, dilettante utopian? His treasonous collusion with Churchill turned a European war into a world war and handed eastern and central Europe as a gift package to Stalin, who we all know was a man devoted to “democracy and peace.”
Continuing with Reuters:
Guterres warned in his letter that the U.N. could run out of cash by July and cited a “Kafkaesque” requirement for it to credit back hundreds of millions of dollars in unspent dues to states each year even if it never received the money. U.N. officials hope to overhaul this “bizarre” rule, which Guterres has called “a race to bankruptcy.”
Who, one might ask, put this “bizarre” rule in place, and why can’t the UN officials get rid of it? The “Kafkaesque” dimensions are a feature, not a bug of the UN and go far beyond the financial problems. Now, contributing to what is likely the completion of the UN’s devolution into a case study of colossal institutional failure, is the astonishing megalomania of Donald Trump, “our Caligula President,” as Ron Unz has christened him.
The [financial] crunch comes at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has launched a Board of Peace with himself as lifetime chair, which some fear could undermine the United Nations…
Are you laughing? How can anyone “undermine” the UN any more than the UN does with no assistance? Think of it as an institutional version of the Titanic, a perfect symbol of grandiosity married to hubris, its irrelevance letting it sink into eventual oblivion. As if the United Nations disappearing tomorrow would make the slightest difference to the current goings-on in the international arena. As I wrote in an earlier piece, Putin, Netanyahu & Nuremberg, “the United Nations and other international bodies that presume to police the world, operate with a pseudo-moral authority that allows the states to pretend to adhere to the norms of ‘civilized’ people everywhere while letting the strongest ones get along with pursuing their self-interest at the expense of the weaker ones.” The U.N. has always been a pretend endeavor created by pretend democrats as veneer for the exercise of raw power.
Every day, the absurdities mount. UN member-country representatives huff and puff about “genocide,” “war criminals,” and “unprovoked aggression.” The “official” discourse coming from the “leader of the free world” resembles the crude idiom of gangsters, replete with threats, braggadocio, and adolescent posturing. In January at a Ford plant tour Trump gave the finger and yelled obscenities at an auto-worker who heckled him.
What does the creation of the Board of Peace portend for the future of the UN?
A senior [unnamed] State Department official did though say that “the U.N. needs to get back to basics” and accused it of wasting money. ‘We have no interest in continuing to spend American tax dollars on such waste, fraud and abuse,’ the official said.
So, what are “the basics” of the U.N.? Here is a hint from the header on their web site – “Peace, dignity and equality on a healthy planet.” In other words, nothing remotely connected with the “planet” as we currently survey it. To this soothing “we are the world” vibe, I observed this pic on the web cite that says. . . “Wouldn’t it be swell if this lovely couple moved in to diversify your neighborhood?”
And if the “waste, fraud and abuse” were suddenly eliminated, how would all those program management officers, human rights officers, political affairs officers and information officers spend their time and what would the staff at the UN be doing that differs from what we see now?
Here though, is the perverse irony in Trump’s “Board of Peace” with him reigning at age 79 as dictator for life, staffed with cronies whose careers are completely defined by their “business” interests. Trump to his credit seems to recognize the UN’s resounding failure to maintain international peace, cultivate friendship, and ensure cooperation, and that it is a money pit to give voice to the ravings of tinpot, third world racketeers and to churn out righteous resolutions that no one pays attention to because they are unenforceable and target those countries and their leaders selected by the power brokers who sit on the Security Council.
But Trump is guided by a massive ego and beset by the world’s severest case of attention deficit disorder. He cannot simply do the obvious and sensible thing: pull US funding and support and let it, like its predecessor “the League” sink into deserved non-existence, and worry about Americans. His so-called Board of Peace appears to be a ham-fisted UN work-around to let him turn Gaza into the Jewish Riviera. On the BoP Executive Board are two Jews with zero diplomatic knowledge and experience, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff; one of our former Senators from Tel Aviv, Marco Rubio, the least qualified Secretary of State in memory; and Marc Rowan, another Jewish billionaire, CEO of Apollo Global Management, whose interest in Gaza is, of course, achieving a peaceful resolution to the conflict that meets the needs of the Palestinians.
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Trump had promised to be a President for Americans, to shut down American involvement in foreign wars, and make life better for people who live in places like Ohio, South Dakota and West Virginia. Instead, he sends American dollars to war lords like Netanyahu and Zelenski who currently operate the killing machines that drive the death tallies into the hundreds of thousands of people. Meanwhile, the troglodyte Secretary of War has our navy blowing up the boats of Venezuelan fishermen. Trump probably doesn’t remember his campaign promise to end the war in Ukraine one day after taking office, but then how much does he remember from one day to the next? What happened to Greenland? The “peace deal” to end the Ukraine-Russia war late, last December that was “95% done”? Bibi has been flying in every couple of months to remind Trump who his paymasters are, who is calling the shots, and what “peace” is supposed to look like in the Middle East once he has finished bombing Iran.
The US-Israeli attack on Iran has begun, and Trump, the peace-candidate, his megalomania combined with the solipsism of what is essentially his amoral personality has, indeed, managed to accelerate what will be the collapse of the UN.
From The Hill:
“Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me,” Trump told the The New York Times on Wednesday night when asked if there were any limits on his international power… “I don’t need international law,” he said. “I’m not looking to hurt people.”
Trump doesn’t offer any hints as to what that thing he calls, “my own morality,” tells him when and why he should “stop” doing what he is doing. It’s a good guess that if pressed, his response would be his usual superlative overdose of “greatest,” “biggest,” “most beautiful, “most powerful” with no coherent conclusion that gives a clue as to what moral principles might be at work beyond self-interest and a desperate yearning for adulation. “I’m not looking to hurt people,” sounds rather threatening, a line you might hear from a mob boss suggesting that refusing the “deal” he is offering you will not be a “healthy” decision.
The UN is on life-support, and now with a regional war breaking out in the Middle East instigated by a man whose moral compass appears to spin around like a ball on a roulette wheel.
Below is a retrospective glance at how the United Nations historians document the public relations proclamation for the future of the UN from three of the most cynical, conniving men who have wielded power. From UN Charter History:
From 28 November to 1 December 1943, President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and the Premier of the USSR, Joseph Stalin, met at a conference in Tehran, where they again confirmed their common policy, notably expressing their determination that their nations ‘shall work together in war and in the peace that will follow”, recognizing “the supreme responsibility resting upon us and all the United Nations to make a peace which will command the goodwill of the overwhelming mass of the peoples of the world and banish the scourge and terror of war for many generations.’ They further announced their intention to ‘seek the cooperation and active participation of all nations, large and small, whose peoples in heart and mind are dedicated, as are our own peoples, to the elimination of tyranny and slavery, oppression and intolerance’ within a ‘world family of Democratic Nations’ (Declaration of the Three Powers, Tehran, 1 December 1943). (italics added)
Things didn’t exactly work out as promised. It is unlikely that Joseph Stalin, the Marxist, and Winston Churchill, the colonialist, believed any of this. As for Franklin Roosevelt, he was in his last years of office a dead man walking, ravaged by cardiovascular disease, uncontrolled hypertension, and possibly a brain lesion causing his fatal cerebral hemorrhage. In 1944, FDR’s reelection to the Presidency was a travesty carried out by a desperately sick, incapacitated man who could not bear to relinquish power. Who knows what axioms of political philosophy he was independently capable of operating with. His closest advisors were Alger Hiss and Lauchlin Currie (Soviet spies) while Harry Hopkins and his wife Eleanor were communist sympathizers.
Who, of any of the American Presidents after FDR, took the democracy and human rights hocus pocus of the UN seriously? What major conflicts since WWII—Korea, Vietnam, the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq 2003-2011, Afghanistan—did the UN end? It has taken Donald Trump, the immoralist, to make it obvious that the United Nations was, from the beginning, an elaborate, costly drama production created and run by cynical opportunists.
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Just another stab in the back. Why should we be shocked? I got physically ill when I first heard of the attack on Iran.
I hope you’re feeling well Stephen?
Thanks, Fred,
Yes, complete betrayal.
Great article! So the United Nations (UN) is going bankrupt, and will become defunct—good. It was bound to fail, because non-Whites were allowed to participate. It would have been a tall order if all the participating nations were White. 🙃
Don’t the Jews hate the UN though? I mean, I know it’s a terrible organization, but the one thing it consistently seemed good for was calling out Jews on the Israel/Palestine question and passing anti-Israeli resolutions yearly. I remember years ago the Zionists influencers like Ben Shapiro were talking about how they’d like to bulldoze the UN building in New York and tear down the entire organization. The UN were deployed as peacekeeping force trying to prevent the Israelis and Egyptians from going at it during the cold war, but literally did nothing to stop the fighting. I think their presence angered the jews for the same reason having the USS liberty in the area angers them. Even if the UN peacekeepers didn’t do anything, they could’ve heard radio signals or seen Israelis committing war crimes. And not being entirely American, intelligence could then pass over from the UN to other countries.
What major conflicts since WWII—Korea, Vietnam, the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq 2003-2011, Afghanistan—did the UN end?
They did end the Korean war arguably, I suppose (although it’s technically an armistice). Korean war seemed to give a huge bump in legitimacy to the UN, and the Soviets abstaining in that security council vote really gave the Americans an excuse to fight under a UN flag. If that didn’t happen, the organization may have just fallen into irrelevance. Maybe that was the plan all along and why the Soviets didn’t vote against it. They knew that having westerners tied to such a globalist organization meant they could hollow it out from within with their own communist influence, or undermine western efforts. Similar to how they desired to join NATO during the 1950s.
Anyways, my main problem with the UN is how it makes western charity and foreign aid appear to be a global effort. If you look at the funding for things like medical care, disaster relief and food aid, it’s all coming from first world white countries. But because it’s laundered through the UN, it means that the general public doesn’t realize the disparity in who pays and who receives.
The organization also seems to only function through the hypocrisy of the security council, where actual power and influence is still placed in western hands, all the while the organization makes itself out to be globalist and non-biased. France, Britain and the US constituting a Big Three on the security council that can veto whatever they want easily. That’s why there’s such a disparity between the general assembly resolutions (where Arabs vote as a bloc against the jews) and what the security council actually does. Take away the western collusion and the organization implodes immediately. And now western interests are diverging due to the great replacement, and those countries are on their way to minority white status, the UN may turn out to be too dysfunctional to even keep up the pretenses. The Palestine question is already causing security council members like the UK to start to break ranks because of the sheer amount of Muslims in their country.
July? Good God, I can’t wait so long!
It’s quite likely that what Trump wanted to create was to be called “Board of Piss”; his advisors just made a mistake. At least, that’s in line with his recent foreign policy decisions.
To his credit, Trump actually tried to stop the Ukrainian War, but it’s extremely difficult to do when all other parties want to continue.
More than 90 years ago, NS Germany withdrew from the League of nations, denouncing it as hypocritical, inefficient and unilateral tool of the allies.
As always, the Austrian painter was far ahead of his time.
The United Nations in their structure, funding and proclaimed values are a legacy of the age of Western supremacy. The Security Council was supposed to be the guardian of the new world order, decided by the victors of WWII. With Europe politically humiliated and dethroned, Russia unilaterally revising the post-Yalta order and USA retreating from global policing through looting and burning, the world is entering a new, more chaotic stage while the chief mafiosi are re-negotiating the arrangements.
I’m on the left on this question. It’s far from perfect of course, but the UN is all we have. There should be international institutions that are interested and invested in peace and negotiation and that provide a clear record of things like how America protects Israel at every moment possible, in defiance of the rest of the planet.
What’s the alternative ? People will look at Trump’s Board of Piss, Venezuela, Iran now, Iraq in 2003, Russia/Ukraine and say, “Well you’re right. We better have a global government instead”. That’s gonna be great.
Trump trying to undermine the UN, for all its faults, is horrible. And who’s it for ? For America, or for Israel ?
Trump’s so-called Board of Peace is all about Trump, for the benefit of Israel at the expense of non-Jews everywhere. It’s not about peace. Trump and Netanyahu are proven war-mongers.
Sidenote: I’d add there’s a theory FDR was murdered in office, arguably by Israeli influence when FDRs private anti selfish such as promises to King Ibn Saud to never recognize Israel state. Harry Elmer Barnes and later John Loftus pushed theory. No idea if true, but interestin.
I have read the same conspiracy theory in The Controversy of Zion or The World Conquerors, but the theory was that FDR was killed because he refused to use the US military to clear out Palestine after they had completed their genocidal mission in Europe. 🙃
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