I’ve been fascinated to watch Donald Trump’s Board of Peace change as time goes on.

When it was first suggested, it seemed to me to be part of a land grab by the United States.  A real estate consortium whose goal was to raise finance and rebuild Gaza into a new Riviera. A gaudy Trumpist holiday city more for the rich than the dispossessed people of Gaza.

But as time has gone on, it’s transmogrified into something with far bigger ambition. 

It’s become a new international club led by the United States. A golf club on steroids. First the President has to invite you and then you have to pay a billion dollars to get into the club - and away you go.

The President has now stated that its mandate is not just Gaza but to broker any peace anywhere in the world, and it’s starting to sound very much like the United Nations - but a United Nations under US control. 

Donald Trump and many like him have often railed against the UN and other globalist bodies like the WEF and World Health Organisation, they’ve claimed they take away a nation’s sovereignty and puts it in the hands of unelected bureaucrats. 

They might be true if the UN actually had any power. Any power it has has been voluntarily ceded to it by nations who can’t be bothered cleaning up any messes.

But the UN has never had power, or else they would have stopped any number of conflicts and solved any number of crises. But that hasn’t stopped panic mongers claiming the UN is coming to take away our rights.

So they say the Board of Peace is not a formal replacement for the UN. But it sure looks like Donald Trump's Trojan Horse to collapse the UN. Whether it becomes influential or remains symbolic depends on how many countries ultimately join and how it operates in practice. 

35 countries have paid the sub and signed up for it. New Zealand on Friday decided not to and kept with the UN as the global body of peace. They did it very carefully with no admonishment on the United States, which is a smart thing to do.

It appears that Trump not only wants to make America great again, but also make the world American. Good luck to him on that.

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