For nearly a century, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and United Nations were instituted as part of a post-World War II global arrangement, led by the United States, to maintain peace.
This peace was envisioned by its designers to last for posterity – a peace supported by multilateralism and backed by (so-called) “international law.”
This was the infamous “rules-based world order,” which was said to have surpassed or overcome the history of mankind, and the conflicts that are inevitable when dealing with humans due to our fallen nature.
The delusion stated that not only had history been transformed into a one-world order, with peace secured indefinitely, but that human nature had somehow also been changed with it.
The sinister implication was that every man’s soul was not tainted by original sin after all, a fundamentally atheistic world view that denies a core lesson of Genesis
Alas, the many decades since World War II showcased more than enough evidence that the rules-based order, and its supporting institutions like NATO and the UN, were always a folly.
Though war was declared over, still the wars came: Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Gaza. With each war, it became harder and harder to believe that history had ended.
Faith in the institutions that perpetuated this belief – most significantly, NATO and the UN – absolutely dissipated. Donald Trump’s presidencies marked the final nail in the coffin to this fantasy.
The President exposed the emperor without clothes. In its place, the President offered a new institution, one uncorrupted from the ridiculous assumptions that undergirded its predecessor institutions.
The Institute of Peace is not like the other two institutions because it does not believe war can be abolished.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
