Dispatch....1900 hrs....6/7/2018
BloombergQuint.....a joint venture news outlet out of India.... ran an article claiming that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is determined to rally European unity at the coming G-7 summit in Canada that starts tomorrow....rally them in opposition to....as BloombergQuint phrased it.....Trump's New World Order. Merkel is...and has been for at least a year....concerned that President Trump's policies of an 'America First' isolationism is effectually ending the current world order that came about after World War II. John McCain famously ranted on this same concern last year. Merkel wants European United Nations member states to form a European bloc.....quoting the article...."a rotating group of about 10 member states could work."....which can then use France's veto power. A ten European nation bloc....hmm....where have I heard that idea before?
Those five members of the United Nations that have security council veto power have become known as the P-5. They were given this veto power in the United Nations because their nuclear capabilities give them the greatest influence in averting nuclear war itself. They are the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Russia and France. The security council itself can pass all the declarations that they want with nine votes out of the fifteen members but any one of the P-5 can....and often does....veto that which they don't agree with.
There are participants in the United Nations that would like to do away with this P-5 veto power but as of now it is deemed very unlikely that any change could be made to the charter....for the P-5 members themselves would have go along with it.....and once again.....only one member would have to exercise their veto. This much is certain.....the 'world order' that we now have is coming to an end. What is uncertain is in what will replace it.
BloombergQuint.....a joint venture news outlet out of India.... ran an article claiming that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is determined to rally European unity at the coming G-7 summit in Canada that starts tomorrow....rally them in opposition to....as BloombergQuint phrased it.....Trump's New World Order. Merkel is...and has been for at least a year....concerned that President Trump's policies of an 'America First' isolationism is effectually ending the current world order that came about after World War II. John McCain famously ranted on this same concern last year. Merkel wants European United Nations member states to form a European bloc.....quoting the article...."a rotating group of about 10 member states could work."....which can then use France's veto power. A ten European nation bloc....hmm....where have I heard that idea before?
Those five members of the United Nations that have security council veto power have become known as the P-5. They were given this veto power in the United Nations because their nuclear capabilities give them the greatest influence in averting nuclear war itself. They are the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Russia and France. The security council itself can pass all the declarations that they want with nine votes out of the fifteen members but any one of the P-5 can....and often does....veto that which they don't agree with.
There are participants in the United Nations that would like to do away with this P-5 veto power but as of now it is deemed very unlikely that any change could be made to the charter....for the P-5 members themselves would have go along with it.....and once again.....only one member would have to exercise their veto. This much is certain.....the 'world order' that we now have is coming to an end. What is uncertain is in what will replace it.
