Trump's Peace Council

More and more people are calling Trump’s Peace Council by what it is clearly trying to become: an alternative to the United Nations.
And that is exactly where the truly dangerous part begins.

The moment people start building alternative international frameworks in place of the UN, the existing institutions begin to lose legitimacy.
The same legitimacy that for almost eighty years helped prevent major wars.

Is the UN bad, slow, and paralyzed? Yes.
But it is still the only legitimate international framework that actually exists.

Trump’s initiative is not meant to strengthen the UN or help it.
Its purpose is to bypass it and replace it.
To say out loud what politicians, even very extreme ones, usually preferred not to say explicitly:
if the existing institution does not serve us, we will build one of our own.

This initiative has no real weight.
No history. No trust. No mandate.
It has only Donald Trump, his megalomania, and the temporary power he happens to hold right now.
The day Trump leaves the White House, this framework will begin to fall apart. And everyone knows it.

But that is not even the most destructive part.
The most destructive part is the message.

The world can see that the UN, in its current form, is failing to fulfill its role.
And those who want to replace international institutions with personal power seize on that immediately.
Instead of trying to fix the system, they simply go around it, show contempt for it, and further erode whatever authority it still has left.

Yes, one can say that major democracies like Britain have still not joined.
But important and influential countries are already inside, including countries from the European Union.
And the rest are a matter of time and the “right” negotiating tactics.
Trump himself, by the way, has made things much harder for himself with his theatrics around Greenland, the “51st state,” and trade wars.

The very existence of a personal, alternative framework that effectively comes to replace the UN’s functions breaks the very idea of international order.
If every powerful actor starts setting up its own “peace council,” what we will get is not diplomacy but a market of impostors, each with its own flag and zero responsibility.

And as usual, a lot of words and no action.
The membership can be expanded. People can talk about “the future of Gaza” and draw grand plans.
The simple fact is that this framework has done nothing, and shows no sign of how exactly it intends to do anything.

Gaza should not be a public relations project for Trump and his chase after a Nobel Prize.
This is a hard, dirty, painful conflict that will not be resolved by demagoguery and invented institutions.

To create an alternative to the UN means admitting that the old system has collapsed.
But if the new system is the personal project of a single politician, that is not a solution.
It is just another step toward more chaos.