On UN, as Malone reminds us, it was set up to avoid future wars. Period. Not all kinds of other stuff. I was in San Francisco 1945 and saw the long black limousines with small flags on fenders every morning taking national representatives into the San Francisco Opera House. Our US representatives, led by Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, were the ones who drove those proceedings, based totally upon the US led findings of Nuremberg. Sole Objective: Avoid Wars. I’ve probably watched more closely, for longer than most, what’s happened to that organization, particularly as relates to wars.

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Unfortunately, I’ve seen clearly that of all nations to have violated the resulting UN Charter, it is us, the US, by insuring the Security Council has been neutralized to serve only our purposes and those of our allies . As for the original purpose of the UN, at least post WWII, we have exercised our right in the Security Council of veto to kill every resolution, which found an ally of ours guilty of war or humanitarian crimes. Further, since WWII we are responsible for the most wars, over-throws, and millions killed, displaced, etc., all in clear violation of the Nuremberg Articles and UN Charter laws based upon our own 1945 work. Our nation, and the UN, both, have migrated so far from what we both were in 1945 that we are no longer recognizable.