After the end of World War II, the United Nations was created in 1945. Its goal was to prevent another world war. Its signatories pledged: 

WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED

to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and

to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and

to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and

to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

AND FOR THESE ENDS

to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and

to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and

to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and

to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples.“

In Article 2 they stated:

“All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered“ and “All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.“

The comprehensive validity of this agreement on world peace was undermined by the fact that, primarily on the initiative of the USA, the five great powers designated as permanent members of the UN Security Council were granted the right to veto Security Council decisions that would harm their interests. These great powers are currently the USA, Russia, China, Great Britain, and France (Germany, which holds a leading position within the European Union, is also pushing for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council through the EU).

Since the 1950s, the exercise of the veto power by the permanent members of the UN Security Council has led to wars between the communist and capitalist blocs, which sponsored uprisals in different countries against the alliance with the opposite blocs. Following the collapse of the communist bloc, the number of global superpowers has been reduced to China, the U.S., the Russian Federation, and the European Union. Each of them aspires to world domination and, in effect, the dismantling of the UN as a competitor to their powers.

Currently, the US feels it has the best chance of achieving this position, while at the same time recognizing the growing power of its greatest competitor—China—and attempting to halt its economic growth. Thus, the world is divided into the Russia-China bloc pitted against the US-European Union bloc. However, these blocs are divided among themselves by their own interests in achieving global dominance. The U.S. is seeking a way to take Greenland away from the European Union, and last week China refused to sign an agreement with Russia to build a gas pipeline that could supply 50 billion cubic meters of natural gas there annually. The reason was apparently the fear that China could become just as economically dependent on energy supplies from Russia as the European Union is on energy supplies from the U.S.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is attempting to subjugate China by gaining control over its other major suppliers of oil and natural gas—Venezuela and Iran. China recently demonstrated its new hypersonic anti-ship missiles, which, if supplied to Iran, could enable it to destroy the U.S. naval fleet in the vicinity. The US would then have only nuclear weapons left in reserve to defeat Iran. However, China also possesses nuclear weapons, and given its dependence on Iranian oil, a US nuclear attack on Iran would force China to enter into a nuclear war with the US.

Russia is finding itself in a similar situation in the war in Ukraine, where the EU is attempting, through arms shipments to western Ukraine, to seize historically Russian territories in eastern and southern Ukraine—regions that had aligned themselves with the Russian Customs Union prior to the pro-Western revolution in Kyiv. Eastern Ukraine, after western and central Ukraine overthrew the pro-Russian Ukrainian government, even rose up against its accession to the European Union.

The use of nuclear weapons in any of these conflicts could easily lead to a global nuclear war that would destroy the world. The threat of nuclear weapons in war effectively prevents the outbreak of a global conventional war, which would most likely escalate into a nuclear war. It is therefore high time for the major powers to join a collective agreement on global security, such as the democratic United Nations, established after World War II, and to renounce their veto power.

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Mojmir Babacek was born in 1947 in Prague, Czech Republic. Graduated in 1972 at Charles University in Prague in philosophy and political economy. In 1978 signed the document defending human rights in  communist Czechoslovakia „Charter 77“. Since 1981 until 1988 lived in emigration in the USA. Since 1996 he has published articles on different subjects mostly in the Czech and international alternative media.

In 2010, he published a book on the 9/11 attacks in the Czech language. Since the 1990‘s he has been striving to help to achieve the international ban of remote control of the activity of the human nervous system and human minds with the use of neurotechnology.

He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

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