Commentary
The principles of the United Nations were inspiring in 1941 when an American president and British prime minister met on warships anchored in the North Atlantic first to put them on paper. Now, the U.N. that resulted is rotten to the core.
Not because of the original principles of the Atlantic Charter, signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. But because of the United Nations and member states’ failure to adhere to them.
The worst abusers, all authoritarian countries, do everything in their power to subvert the ideas found in the Atlantic Charter, including through bribery and the influence of their money on the weakness of human greed….