Inga Che 🇺🇦

THE NEW, 21st CENTURY UNITED NATIONS I can envision a UN reform that will work. For now, UN has obviously lost its purpose, but is as obviously unreformable from within. Still, there might be a way. Step 1. Ukraine - or maybe Israel - withdraws, unilaterally, from UN. It will be a loss of a number of projects and benefits, yet these losses are small peanuts compared to what the country endures right now. Step 2. Some other countries that care about international security - looking at Poland, Sweden, Finland - withdraw, unilaterally, in support of Ukraine. Maybe Germany or Spain or Italy, see below. Again, there will be some losses, but there are also benefits from the withdrawal. Step 3. Impressed by 10+ smaller countries - smaller like Poland or Spain, which are actually not small at all - one of the large democracies, the US, UK, or France - withdraws. Step 4. Now that UN is just another "BRICS", USA withdraw from UN and propose, unilaterally, a new world organization. Step 5. The success of UN 21st Century will depend on whether or not China joins the new organization. It will, after US proposes and UK, Germany, France, Spain, India join as new "big" countries and many others as "small". I am not saying that the new, 21st Century UN will be much more powerful than the old one, post WWII one. United States (and China) are not going to be a part of any international structure that supersedes their own government. Yet at least it would not have a "permanent member" with veto power waging a war of conquest against another member. The UN-21 will recognize India and Germany as countries as big and influential as they deserve. (It wouldn't have veto powers, of course.) The United States and other big donors will benefit from getting rid of inefficient and corrupt bureaucracy; all what is good in the UN will be easy to preserve in the new structure.