Image via WikipediaWhat purpose does the UN serve? Well, it SHOULD be able to enforce treaties, peace, prevent attacks on smaller nations. It has not been successful with this. Why? Problem is that the UN has no power. Even if it decides a country is our of compliance, or flat out defying UN rules, the UN will not do anything, especially if that country declares that any sanctions will be considered an act of war. Not that sanctions ever help anyway. They hurt the people and usually give the rebellious leaders added resolve. It's not a good system.
We need a UN with teeth. First, I'll take this to the extreme. What if the UN had a host of Nuclear bombs and every time a country did not follow UN resolutions, that country's capital was bombed with a nuclear bomb with the intent on destroying that country's leadership. I can think of a few problems that probably wouldn't have happened. Once the UN drops one bomb, I can't imagine there would be a lot of countries causing problems. We would still have gorilla type problems, but that's not what I'm addressing here. So, once the UN establishes itself as having some teeth, then countries should feel more confident in reducing their armies, weapons, and other wasted resources so they can focus on growth, human rights, and anything else they might spend $800 billion dollars on annually. Ok, so that's the figure for the whole world, but still, it's a lot of money.
So, it seems like the end goal could be beneficial, but we can't bring ourselves to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people for the sake of world peace. Would it be worth it, or possible if it was just one bomb and it gave us world peace forever? Still a questionable thought and almost impossible to do. I get that. So lets consider an alternative.
Alternative: Are nuclear weapons so completely unacceptable that it's just not a reasonable policy? Maybe. So instead, put into place a policy of complete destruction of central political establishment, central political symbols, and some high end residencies. The ideal situation would be to kill the leadership, but this comes close to the goals of using a Nuclear bomb. I think especially, the idea of going after high end residencies is especially interesting as money buys influence no matter where you live and if you give enough of the rich a reason to put pressure on the government to change, then you may just get peace.
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