New World Order and the United Nations.

Submitted by Robert (United States), Sep 30, 2022 at 07:45

Dear Dr. Daniel Pipes,

I'm glad you gave us GLAD (elsewhere). This young Israel author gives us an interesting perspective. But he clearly is not a European or American ideologue (ideology expounder). Our American Dollar Bill is the source of our Founding Fathers dream that here the former 13 colonies were the "New Jerusalem.' These turned into the United States (of America). This is also the source of the "New World Order" conspiracy theory. The other even that's relevant is Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points (after WWI) and the consequent emergence of the League of Nations (which the USA didn't join). This institution led to the FDR successful establishment of the United Nations. And this in turn was followed by the European Union. In the background is our Union during our successful Civil War which, incidentally was also effectively a revolution that abolished Slavery.

In this narrative I hope I've inspired the idea that there emerged three (3) Unions: US, UN, and EU. And, incidentally, the Soviet Union collapsed, but metamorphosed (dialectical change?) into the Russian Federation. In this context, I am reminded that our original 13 states originally joined together under the Articles of Confederation - forming a confederation of 13 states. When the Civil War broke out 13 rebellious states in our South formed the doomed Confederacy.

So the idea of a European Roman Empire political institution (Tsar/Czar of Russia, Kaiser of Germany, Empress of India, etc.) has been replaced by the idea of a Union (united states). And the presiding officer is a President. As far as I know, it is George Washington who is the first Head of State so styled. Accordingly, even Xi of China is a President, and he will soon be a (People's) Leader - Caesar, but also a Mussolini (el Duche, Duke but under a King Emmanuel?) and Hitler (Fuehrer).

I hope I succeeded in elaborating the historical background to political leadership in the West, and that these institutions, states, and ideas are in competition with one another, consciously, or not, or didactically in the Hegelian sense. However, only the "Post-" conscious Europeans, subscribers to Critical Theory I think are inclined to adopt this train of thought.

Israel stands out as a kind of powerful Prussia - but it currently appears to lack a Bismark.

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