{"id":53,"date":"2008-04-04T08:15:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T13:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/04\/04\/on-why-the-un-eu-and-nato\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T08:15:49","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T13:15:49","slug":"on-why-the-un-eu-and-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/04\/04\/on-why-the-un-eu-and-nato\/","title":{"rendered":"On Why the UN, EU and NATO?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.<\/span> -Abraham Lincoln<\/font><\/p>\n

We shall now have a therapy session with the UN (United Nations), and it’s younger cousin NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organizations) and EU (European Union.)<\/p>\n

These are three institutions, made under the relatively same rules, drifting away from their original purpose, hamstrung by the rules they have in place, and are starting to be held hostage by their own members whims.<\/p>\n

Now, the three have different reasons for existing. The UN exists so nations can have regular discourse instead of war (yeah, how’s that going), NATO for Defense (Job too well done) and EU for Economic prosperity (and counter US economic power). However, in all, it’s up to the countries to decide just what policies they are going to follow, how much they are going to follow them, and the penalty for non compliance is just about the filing of more paper.<\/p>\n

In the UN, the 5 permanent members wield almost absolutely power, individually. One veto and a resolution is dead. it used to be All US all Russia tit for tat with China abstaining all the time. Nothing got done if the US or Russia was affected. Now, it’s pretty much the same if France or China are affected. Conversations ground to a halt or are none starters. General, all recognized countries belong to the UN but they don’t really have a say. The UN needs a rules rewrite so all member states have an actual say. Guess what, you can’t have one unless the 5 permanent members agree and that means they would lose power. It’s not something they relish.<\/p>\n

NATO’s members (all of them) have to also agree for parties to enter.
\nNATO is a board of consensus, meaning if one member objects, as the case of Greece to Macedonia;s entrance, then subsequently, that resolution is dead. BTW, greece objected because Macedonia (the country) has the same name as a section of greece. Yes, that’s right, Greece objects to Macedonia because the name of Macedonia may lead to “confusion” and “instability.” you can’t make this stuff up. NATO, in becoming larger risks making itself useless. Getting 3 countries to agree on a defense or war or troops is way different than getting 20 of them to agree. An insistent veto turns the alliance into a “Parties of the Willing.” as inner groups form within and some members support one another differently. There is really no fix for this. Ergo, As NATO takes over europe and parts of Asia it grounds to a halt and becomes ineffective as a Group body. It has no future under it’s current mission except as a new UN, a european one.<\/p>\n

EU
\nThe EU needs it’s members to agree to move it’s constitution forward, however, when face with this prospect, members states (UK, France) always seem to win some exception to the constitution’s provisions. During this new round, the UK again won exceptions, Again, which are Mandatory for everyone else. Every new country that joins the EU makes governship just that more difficult and representation is now forced stopped at 27 representatives with a rotating head. It’s hamstringing of Monetary policy causes ripples against big economies, or would destroy smaller ones. Right now, Germany is outside the EU’s acceptable Monetary limits for continued membership. They can’t afford to let that continue, but they can’t remove Germany, that would be a disaster of epic proportions.
\nThe EU will however continue to exist and will eventually work out it’s problems. The EU will not offer a military provision to bind it’s members because it has the NATO, so NATO will become the military wing of the EU.<\/p>\n

In the end, regional UN’s are what’s going to happen in the world, driven together for defense or economic stability. But because each charter is made to give each member state sovereignty , they become little more than exorcises in paper tiger diplomacy. There is no wish to rid the world of a “group” once it’s in place, even if the charter no longer applies. Like a government, it becomes self perpetuating and self preserving of it’s own existence and often only becomes a new place to have a diplomat in residence.<\/p>\n

Why have them then? To combat the growing power of Global Corporations, and Free Trade Stops Wars. More on that later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. -Abraham Lincoln We shall now have a therapy session with the UN (United Nations), and it’s younger cousin NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organizations) and EU (European Union.) These are three institutions, made under the relatively same rules, drifting away from their original purpose, hamstrung by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[174,176,173,175],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blubs-of-verbs","category-commentary","tag-eu","tag-global-corporations","tag-nato","tag-un"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}