Trump's new Board of Peace is necessary because the UN has failed again and again

 Douglas Murray  

"By making some (often undiplomatic) threats to those allies, Trump has made them take their own security seriously again."

You can't drive to freedom with a kidnapped person in the trunk.

"President Trump’s remarks at Davos have caused a chorus of howls. Some of that howling is understandable. But some of it is makes as much sense as howling at the moon.

"Take the “Board of Peace” proposal. Countries like France and Britain are refusing to sign on to the president’s initiative. They complain that there are countries on the board they do not approve of. And that there is a risk that it could prove a rival organization to the United Nations.

"It is true that the idea of Vladimir Putin or the dictator of Belarus being on the board is a worrying sign.

"But if the board can be a counter to the UN? Then good.

"The Board of Peace was started in order to try to secure the situation in Gaza. And if the president succeeds in that, then he deserves every accolade. He will have solved one of the hardest conflicts in the world.

"After all, Phase 2 of Trump’s peace plan is now meant to be in process. That involves demilitarization of Gaza, new governance and reconstruction.

"Yet Hamas still has a presence in Gaza. That “presence” means the group is still killing, torturing and otherwise intimidating the citizens of Gaza. In order for peace to break out, Hamas needs to be disarmed.

"And that’s where the really big problem of the UN creeps in.

"I’ve witnessed plenty of UN peacekeeping efforts for myself over the years. And they have a huge problem. Mainly the fact that the last thing most UN “peacekeeping” forces want to do is to fight.

"Yet unless they are willing to fight, how can they keep the peace?

"Some readers will remember how effective Dutch troops were in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. They stood aside as Serb forces massacred around 8,000 Bosnians.' . . . More...

Does Gen Z even know what a fascist or a nazi is?

 

The Young Right: Are Gen Z Turning Fascist? — Pi Media

. . . "The psychological roots of this shift to the right may lie in this youth’s perception of the state of the world. Professor of psychology Michele Gelfand has found that in times of perceived threat – whether war, economic instability, or climate disaster – societies tend to become more restrictive. ‘When people perceive threat – whether real or imagined – they want strong rules and autocratic leaders to help them survive’, she explains. In a study published in the Behavioural Scientist, she found that even brief exposure to false information about terrorism, overpopulation, or pandemics made participants more likely to favor authoritarian policies." . . .  I do not see a shift to the right in Minneapolis. TD

 Holocaust history: Millennials, Gen Z can't name concentration camps  "Almost two-thirds of millennials and Gen Zers don't know that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and almost half can't name a single concentration camp, an alarming new survey on Holocaust knowledge has found.

Case in point.

"The survey demonstrated wide gaps in younger American's knowledge of the genocide while also showing a concerning 15% of millennials and Gen Zers thought holding neo-Nazi views was acceptable.   

"How much of that is based on genuine understanding of neo-Nazis principles and how much is based on ignorance is hard to tell. Either of them is very disturbing," said Gideon Taylor, president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which commissioned the survey.". . . More...

The state-by-state analysis yielded a particularly disquieting finding that nearly 20 percent of Millennials and Gen Z in New York feel the Jews caused the Holocaust. - Claims Conference

How ironic, yet sad, that the very victims of the Holocaust are being called "Nazis" by the generation supporting those who want all Jews dead and the nation of Israel wiped blank from all maps. In their ignorance they wear the "Palestinian" keffiyeh instead of the swastika armband. TD

Notice Anything Missing From Those Winter Storm Stories?

Issues & Insights 

"What changed? Nothing, other than the water levels of the Great Lakes at the time these “experts” were making their claims. (See: “Great Lakes Reveal a Fatal Flaw in Climate Change ‘Science’.”)"

"Over the weekend, USA Today reported that northeast states were experiencing an unusual winter problem – a shortage of salt.

"It seems that there have been so many snowstorms this winter that even states like Michigan and Vermont – which are quite accustomed to them –  are running short of the snow-melting chemical.

“An official from Monroe County, [Michigan] located between Detroit and Ohio, told the news station that local crews used more salt in December than in the past four Decembers combined,” says USA Today.

"But what’s curiously missing from this and other accounts of the winter storm is the obligatory mention of “climate change” as the cause. It seems that bad winter weather is just weather. Whereas bad summer weather is always – always – and prominently blamed on our burning fossil fuels.

That’s not to say that no story over the weekend brought up “climate change.” But most of those were in response to President Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social: Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 States. Rarely seen anything like it before. Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain — WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???   Donald J. Trump | Truth Social

"And these stories were meant only to debunk Trump’s claim.

"CBS News helpfully explained that Trump is confusing “weather” with “climate change.'”

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