Some things are inevitable... A unified authority made up of benevolent, intelligent, peace-seeking leaders is one of them. That is the basic idea of why the UN was founded. It has never been able to be what it was meant to be for many reasons. One of them is the fact that not all nations are 'allowed' - which is ridiculous. It's typically been 'owned' by the highest bidders, who often walk away when they no longer have the financial flexibility to usurp control. All should be allowed, all should have a voice, all should be equally financially responsible and all should be liable for their mistakes and crimes. Another reason is because each nation has a standing military which, for reasons of domestic enforcement and management, should be fine but should not be fine for nations to have such large forces that they can thwart the sovereignty of other nations - or vice versa (unless all nations do, which would be madness). It should be a modest but effective national military that allots its surplus, along with all other nations' surpluses, to the UN standing military, which should absolutely be able (and large enough, consisting of allotments from all nations) to mediate in the affairs of any nation, despite the size of their standing national forces. Unfortunately (and doubly so, since the people who originally put this together are now rallying against it and because they have turned to war, military production, proliferation and conflict as 'good business' - at the cost of several million live worldwide), the greatest nations on the planet still seem to live in some sort of fantasy world which causes them to believe they have the greatest military might - even if it means making themselves global enemies and bankrupting their own domestic economies - for which they will ultimately pay dearly (once they have lost domestic support and global respect). After all, it is not a military that keeps a nation strong, it is an economy...and if that economy is based on a military that has little or no ethical, moral or social (with respect to either domestic or global society) value, it is only a matter of time until that economy is destroyed and, consequently, the military along with it. You can't pay for war toys without having the economic strength to do so, not to mention, a strong foundation of education, research & development, science and innovative technology - all of which suffer as a result of a bankrupt economy. Maybe people who like to arrogantly wield power and authority while doing a poor job of demonstrating wisdom will come to see the errors of their ways. If not, by the time they realize this, it could be far too late...possibly for all of us.

Some things are inevitable... A unified authority made up of benevolent, intelligent, peace-seeking leaders is one of them. That is the basic idea of why the UN was founded. It has never been able to be what it was meant to be for many reasons. One of them is the fact that not all nations are 'allowed' - which is ridiculous. It's typically been 'owned' by the highest bidders, who often walk away when they no longer have the financial flexibility to usurp control. All should be allowed, all should have a voice, all should be equally financially responsible and all should be liable for their mistakes and crimes. Another reason is because each nation has a standing military which, for reasons of domestic enforcement and management, should be fine but should not be fine for nations to have such large forces that they can thwart the sovereignty of other nations - or vice versa (unless all nations do, which would be madness). It should be a modest but effective national military that allots its surplus, along with all other nations' surpluses, to the UN standing military, which should absolutely be able (and large enough, consisting of allotments from all nations) to mediate in the affairs of any nation, despite the size of their standing national forces. Unfortunately (and doubly so, since the people who originally put this together are now rallying against it and because they have turned to war, military production, proliferation and conflict as 'good business' - at the cost of several million live worldwide), the greatest nations on the planet still seem to live in some sort of fantasy world which causes them to believe they have the greatest military might - even if it means making themselves global enemies and bankrupting their own domestic economies - for which they will ultimately pay dearly (once they have lost domestic support and global respect). After all, it is not a military that keeps a nation strong, it is an economy...and if that economy is based on a military that has little or no ethical, moral or social (with respect to either domestic or global society) value, it is only a matter of time until that economy is destroyed and, consequently, the military along with it. You can't pay for war toys without having the economic strength to do so, not to mention, a strong foundation of education, research & development, science and innovative technology - all of which suffer as a result of a bankrupt economy. Maybe people who like to arrogantly wield power and authority while doing a poor job of demonstrating wisdom will come to see the errors of their ways. If not, by the time they realize this, it could be far too late...possibly for all of us. - For as long as they have existed, nations have clung to the illusion that their military strength guarantees their security. The problem with this ...