Trump's new "Board of Peace" -- a Trump-controlled rival to the UN?

[Innula Zenovka]

I think this merits a thread of its own -- initially it was supposed to be an interim authority to administer Gaza, but it seems to have metastasized, at least in Trump's imagination, into something much more wide-ranging, an attempt to set up a Trumpian rival to the UN with the Nacho Nero as World Emperor for LIfe, at least in his imagination:

Ha'aretz: Analysis To Join or Not to Join Trump's Board of Peace? Gaza Plan Moves Ahead Without Netanyahu
Financial Times: Broad mandate of Trump’s Board of Peace sets it up for rivalry with UN

I've linked to Ha'aretz and the FT because they have the most comprehensive coverage I've seen. Both are Evernote links because of paywalls.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

I realize that this Presidential Poopstain has exceeded expectations many times but the history of the UN after WW2 argues against every word DT has uttered.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

BUT IT HAS BLACKJACK AND HOOKERS

 

[Veritable Quandry]

It's a natural progression. The US founded the League of Nations and never joined. We helped found the UN and show up occasionally (to block votes against Israel). Third time's the charm, we'll run it this time.

 

[Noodles]

"Board of peace."

While terrorizing Vinesuela.

While terrorizing Greenland and by extension the EU.

While dumping on Ukraine for not "saying thanks."

While proping up Israel as they slaughter Pelestinians.

While threatening Canada, the literally closest ally.

While terrorizing the people in his own country, that he is the leader of.

I fucking hate all of this.

 

[Free]

More like Bored of Peace, amirite?!

 

[Casey Pelous]

I figured it was the Board of Grift. "You'se wanna open a candy store in Gaza? Oh, dat's a shame. You knows only members can do dat, right?"

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Let's just call it with a plain simple name everybody does understand - mobster gang.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

More from Ha'aretz

The charter treats the chairmanship as a personal role rather than one linked to the U.S. presidency, stating that "Donald J. Trump shall serve as inaugural Chairman of the Board of Peace," with no reference to the office of president or to any fixed term.

Remarkably, the board's chairmanship is not tied to the U.S. presidency and does not end when Trump leaves office.

As chairman, Trump would wield sweeping authority over the body's composition, operations and even its continued existence. He alone would invite states to join, renew or terminate their membership, appoint and remove members of the executive board, nominate its chief executive and veto any executive decision, subject only to a possible two-thirds veto.

He would have exclusive power to create or dissolve subsidiary bodies, issue binding resolutions, designate his own successor and dissolve the organization outright or renew it at will every two years.

Trump would have final approval over all major board decisions, set meeting agendas, break tie votes and serve as the ultimate arbiter of the charter's interpretation. Trump would have "exclusive authority to create, modify, or dissolve subsidiary entities," select and remove members of the Executive Board, and veto its decisions "at any time thereafter."

The document further provides that "replacement of the Chairman may occur only following voluntary resignation or as a result of incapacity," which must be determined by "a unanimous vote of the Executive Board," underscoring how insulated the role is from political change.

And here

The White House is advancing plans to grant a broad mandate to a proposed Board of Peace that would administer the Gaza Strip and eventually take on other global conflicts, according to three sources who spoke with Haaretz.

One source said senior U.S. officials promoting the initiative "see it as something very close to a new kind of UN, made up of selected countries that would make decisions affecting the world."

A Western diplomat told Haaretz that his country is alarmed by the move, which would create a mechanism parallel to the UN without the backing of international law.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Kremlin says Putin has been invited to join Trump’s Gaza ‘board of peace’

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Apparently the president of Belarus has also been invited to join.

Trump's Board of Peace has asked the EU, Russia, Belarus and Thailand to join Gaza peace plan initiative

Israel has been asked to join U.S. President Donald Trump’s new Board of Peace that will supervise the next phase of the Gaza peace plan, an Israeli official said Monday, while France is holding off accepting for now.

www.pbs.org

I realise the Logan Act is very rarely enforced, but wouldn't it place all US participants in this venture, including Trump himself, at risk of prosecution after Trump leaves office unless they were acting with the permission and support of the US government at the time?

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Ok, who comes next - North Korea?

 

[Zaida Gearbox]

Trump is the anti-Christ.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Trump is the anti-Christ.

'Aw, c'mon man! I'm not THAT bad!"

- Actual Anti-Christ​

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Let's ask the Australian Broadcasting Corporation:

Is Trump the antichrist? That’s the wrong question - ABC Religion & Ethics

The whole point of the Book of Revelation is that evil is embodied in regimes that transcend any individual. However much his actions run contrary to Christian teaching, Trump is only part of a much larger phenomenon.

www.abc.net.au

So let’s ask the provocative question: is Donald Trump the antichrist? The short answer is no, because there is no one antichrist. To claim that the number 666 refers to a specific person is to misunderstand the symbolic and polyvalent nature of the ancient biblical texts.

The whole point of Revelation is that evil becomes incarnate in systems and regimes that transcend any individual. Trump, however, may be an antichrist — that is, part of a much larger phenomenon. That phenomenon, I suggest, is Christian nationalism.

 

[Zaida Gearbox]

'Aw, c'mon man! I'm not THAT bad!"

- Actual Anti-Christ​

Some lady with dowsing rods (don't judge it amuses me) on TikTok asked the rods if Trump is the anti-Christ, and they said yes!

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Well to me this "Board of Peace" is the American reaction to the Shanghai Cooperation Orgsanisation (SCO), which is led by China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation

I mean it makes sense from an American view - the UN security council has this pesky veto right. China just can veto everything and that's it, America can't do anything about it then. This is why the UN is not a great tool of power for the US. The SCO has been on-going since 2001, and it turned into quite a powerful alternative to the UN with about 40% of the world population being in.

So creating an American led counterpart to the SCO seems only logical. Though I wonder why Belarus is a member in both.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Well to me this "Board of Peace" is the American reaction to the Shanghai Cooperation Orgsanisation (SCO), which is led by China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation

I mean it makes sense from an American view - the UN security council has this pesky veto right. China just can veto everything and that's it, America can't do anything about it then. This is why the UN is not a great tool of power for the US. The SCO has been on-going since 2001, and it turned into quite a powerful alternative to the UN with about 40% of the world population being in.

So creating an American led counterpart to the SCO seems only logical.

Possibly so, but this isn't "an American-led" counterpart to anything. It's a vanity project for Trump, so he can play at being world president for life after he ceases to be US president, and yet another grift whereby he controls the billion dollar membership dues.

I think I recall reading somewhere that when Trunp's father, Fred, developed dementia the family created a fake office for him, so he could still go to work every day and be happy thinking he was taking decisions and in charge of the company while Donald and others got on with running it. This seems a similar idea.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

It is not yet, but can turn into such a thing. I mean the SCO is around since 2001, so 25 years already. So let's give it some time and we'll see.

 

[Khamon]

Well to me this "Board of Peace" is the American reaction to the Shanghai Cooperation Orgsanisation (SCO), which is led by China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation

Though I wonder why Belarus is a member in both.

Yes, and dual membership is okay because the purpose to, "administer the Gaza Strip and eventually take on other global conflicts," translates in Galactic Standard to "develop economic interest to deposit funds into offshore accounts personally administered by individual board members." We can already see Trump doing this with oil proceeds he has stolen from Venezuela. The East India Company lasted longer than the US has been a nation so they may be onto something truly lucrative for themselves and their descendants.