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It’s a sign of progress that all the leading candidates to succeed UN Secretary-General António Guterres are talking up the need for deep reform, but also telling that all of them come from the warm, careerist global-diplomacy blob — and so unlikely to actually fight hard enough to move the United Nations out of its suicidal spiral.
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all → ’ → spiral
The permanent UN bureaucracy is more global parasite than world servant, glibly offering comforting blather to Western chattering classes while its top figures line their own pockets; deep reform is vital if the United Nations is to survive.
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Nations → offer → pockets
UN precedent is to make it look like change by cycling the top job from one region to another; it’s now Latin America’s “turn,” with the establishment dutifully coughing up Costa Rica’s Rebeca Grynspan and Chile’s Rafael Grossi, each with an oh-so-“worthy” résumé of service internationally and at home.
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establishment → make → home
Thing is, the crowd that sees a Grynspan as in any way edgy is also happy with a UN system where the likes of Francesca Albanese, the toxic UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, routinely cheers for terrorists.
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likes → see → terrorists
It’s the system that elevated the grotesque Guterres to the top job for two five-year terms — the second one, after he’d utterly failed the challenge of COVID.
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he → ’ → COVID
The White House and Republicans in Congress are united in insisting on better — and Washington has a veto, along with the other permanent Security Council members.
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Washington → unite → members
The recent rumor that Team Trump would push Hungarian ex-PM Viktor Orbán for the job looks to be a trial balloon by fringe MAGA freelancers, not anything President Donald Trump (nor Orbán himself!) is seriously considering — though it should serve as a warning that Trump will keep looking ever-further outside the box if the field remains nothing but business-as-usual “reformers.”
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field → push → reformers
UN insiders probably need to be ready for a delay in anyone succeeding Guterres when he leaves office on Jan. 1:
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he → need → Jan.
Months of straw polls among the 15 Security Council members have failed to produce anything like a consensus, and Russia reportedly won’t allow anyone to win this month, while Latvia serves as council president.
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Latvia → fail → president
Anyone serious about what that means should ponder the speeches of Secretary of State Marco Rubio: Real UN leadership will stand up for the best of Western civilization and against the menace of left-wing terrorism.
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leadership → mean → terrorism
Go-along-to-get-along no longer works; if the UN crowd won’t face that fact, it’ll have to get along with no secretary-general at all.
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it → go → general
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