{"id":220410,"date":"2022-10-03T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=220410"},"modified":"2022-09-29T04:06:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T03:06:58","slug":"a-new-un-to-prevent-the-sacrifice-of-europe-to-the-nuclear-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/10\/a-new-un-to-prevent-the-sacrifice-of-europe-to-the-nuclear-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"A New UN to Prevent the Sacrifice of Europe to the Nuclear Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"

27 Sep 2022 – <\/em>Would the US\/NATO military establishment risk sacrificing Europe to the nuclear gods if a conventional armed conflict broke out with Russia, and local North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) commanders believed that tactical nuclear weapons would be required to win?<\/p>\n

[Year 2022:\u00a0 Russia, alarmed by US\/NATO in Ukraine, threatens to use nuclear weapons.\u00a0 The USA over the past few years has increased<\/em> its nuclear weapons budget, by billions of dollars.]<\/span><\/p>\n

Europe faces the possibility of such a regional conflict.\u00a0 Tensions have risen.\u00a0 Russia is getting suspicious of US\/NATO\u2019s intentions, feeling encircled as NATO expands militarily into Eastern Europe and the Ukraine.<\/p>\n

It seems unthinkable, but if a tactical nuclear war erupts, the European nations would be the ones sacrificed, not the USA–it lies thousands of ocean miles away.<\/p>\n

The world community watches in frustration as the United Nations, supposedly in existence to prevent wars, is unable to do its job.\u00a0 Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Libya, Yemen, and Palestine are all subject to violent military aggression with the vast majority of victims being civilians and families.\u00a0 Could Europe be added to the list, a victim of its own involvement with NATO?<\/p>\n

The European Union already struggles with the multitudes of refugees fleeing the fighting in the Middle East, wars that the US\/NATO or allies started in the first place, and which the UN was unable to prevent.<\/p>\n

The UN is stymied by its fatally flawed Charter.\u00a0 Despite the fact that the original purpose of the UN is to end \u201cthe scourge of war,\u201d it has failed time and time again.\u00a0 While the UN has done much good, the world has seen over 250 wars since the Charter was signed.<\/p>\n

[The Center for UN Constitutional Research (CUNCR) offers a legal opening for the UN General Assembly to launch Charter review.]<\/span><\/p>\n

The Nuclear Gods Still Control the USA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite reassurances by President Obama, nuclear disarmament is nowhere in sight.\u00a0 For US military contractors, present and future funding for nuclear weapons systems is \u201cfull speed ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

[President Biden, like Obama, is supporting the Pentagon’s big budget nuclear “modernization” Life Extinction Program.]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDespite committing the US to \u2018seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons,\u2019 Obama\u2019s record on nuclear disarmament is dismal, having supported spending $1 trillion over the next 3 decades to modernize the US nuclear arsenal.\u201d (Cabasso, United for Peace & Justice, 5\/22\/16)<\/p>\n

[While the Pentagon has described its nuclear weapons program as a modernization Life Extension Program, it is actually a Life Extinction Program.]<\/span><\/p>\n

A recent survey of the North American public (Wall Street Journal, 5\/21\/16) asks \u201cWould We Drop the Bomb Again?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cYes,\u201d according to the professors who did the study:\u00a0 \u201cWhen provoked, we don\u2019t seem to consider the use of nuclear weapons a taboo, and our commitment to the immunity of civilians from deliberate attack in wartime, even with vast casualties, is shallow.\u201d<\/p>\n

The US Congress refuses to admit the obvious fact that militarism and nuclear weaponry are a dead end. Moreover, they treat the UN as if it was of secondary importance, even though without a UN (or a new world organization) with the power to outlaw nukes and war, we will never be safe.<\/p>\n

Reaching out to the European Parliament<\/strong><\/p>\n

Frustrated by the US government\u2019s obstructionism and its worship of all things military, a small contingent of NGO world federalists from the US and Canada is traveling to Brussels in early June, 2016 to meet with select members of the European Parliament.<\/p>\n

[Outreach to European politicians so far has failed. Rather than opposing US\/NATO especially in Ukraine, Europe has made the tragic mistake of expanding NATO on behalf of the US Empire. Ironically, the economic sanctions against Russia will weaken, if not destroy, Germany’s economy, and possibly other European nations.]<\/span><\/p>\n

Led by the NGO nonpartisan CUNCR (Brussels) and Democratic World Federalists (San Francisco), an international campaign is being launched to demand a review of the UN Charter.\u00a0 It\u2019s called \u201cThe San Francisco Promise\u201d and describes the legal fact that at the original signing of the Charter a review was promised, even written into the Charter itself, but never carried out.<\/p>\n

Currently the UN General Assembly (UNGA) is being foiled by the nuclear powers who are saying \u201cno\u201d to nuclear disarmament.\u00a0 But UNGA\u2019s \u201cOpen Ended Working Group (OEWG) on nuclear disarmament\u201d is not taking \u201cno\u201d for an answer, and appears determined to find a way to ban nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

[On 1\/22\/22 the UN’s Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – TPNW, went into legal force.\u00a0 But the nuclear powers refuse to abide by this new international law.\u00a0 The UN Charter lacks an enforcement mechanism.]<\/span><\/p>\n

In Europe OEWG has information revealing that NATO has nukes in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey.\u00a0 According to documentation by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), these countries host from 160 \u2013 200 nuclear weapons (OEWG Report, Vol. 2, No. 9, 4 May 2016).<\/p>\n

OEWG\u2019s efforts are vitally important but they remain stuck within the parameters of the outdated UN Charter. The UN General Assembly must find a way to break free of the Charter\u2019s restrictions that prevent the UN from ending the nuclear nightmare.<\/p>\n

Shutting Down the Nuclear Gods for Good<\/strong><\/p>\n

World federalists like Einstein and many other top thinkers have concluded that the only way to end the danger of nuclear annihilation is to form a democratic world federal union government with enforceable world law.\u00a0 These critical features are missing in the present UN Charter.<\/p>\n

That is why the Earth Constitution<\/strong> drafted by the World Constitution and Parliament Association takes on such importance.\u00a0 It is ready to go, designed to shut down the nuclear gods once and for all.\u00a0 The nations and the world community must make the decision that they want world peace more than they want a world in perpetual war.<\/p>\n

There is an urgent need to reverse the downward course of militarism that is destroying the Middle East and endangering the European Union.\u00a0 The European Parliament could play a crucial role by supporting Charter Review.\u00a0 The Parliament could also challenge NATO\u2019s ever expanding military posture, a policy that is stirring up fears in both Russia and China and causing an arms build-up.<\/p>\n

UN Charter Review opens the door to compare the present Charter to the Earth Constitution.\u00a0 The Earth Constitution brings an inspired yet practical democratic governing structure that includes a democratically elected World Parliament, a well-designed judiciary system with enforcement powers, and the opportunity for world federal union.<\/p>\n

Will the upcoming meetings in Brussels between world federalists and members of the European Parliament mark a turning point which ends the death spiral caused by misplaced faith in the nuclear gods?<\/p>\n

[No.\u00a0 Europe continues to cling to US\/NATO which is militarily encircling Russia.\u00a0 Like the Russians, US military policy includes first strike.]<\/span><\/p>\n

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Text written originally on 23 May 2016. Revision In Red<\/span> on 27 Sep 2022. <\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 Roger Kotila, Ph.D. is a peace activist and a psychologist (ret.) with many years\u00a0of\u00a0clinical experience with the California Dept. of Corrections doing psychiatric diagnosis and treatment with inmates.\u00a0President of Democratic World Federalists he is co-editor of <\/em>DWF NEWS, and editor of <\/em>Earth Federation News & Views.\u00a0He supports a \u201cnew UN\u201d under the\u00a0Earth Constitution. www.earthfederation.info<\/a> Email:\u00a0earthstarradio@aol.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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