Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Would Have Global Scope but One Man in Charge
The initiative is the latest example of the president dismantling the post-World War II international system and building a new one, with himself at the center.
In the proposed charter of the “Board of Peace” that the United States sent to national capitals in recent weeks, one man has the power to veto decisions, approve the agenda, invite members, dissolve the board entirely and designate his own successor.
His name is spelled out in Article 3.2: “Donald J. Trump shall serve as inaugural chairman.”
“If Trump, then peace,” Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, one of President Trump’s closest allies in Europe, wrote on Facebook on Sunday after Mr. Trump invited him to join the board. “We have, of course, accepted this honorable invitation.”
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Belarus, Pakistan and several more countries also said they were joining, ahead of a signing ceremony planned for Thursday in Switzerland.
What greater endorsement could there be than Viktor Orban's, the Hungarian dictator speaking of peace after Dotard has attacked or threatened to attack Greenland, Venezuela, Cuba, Nigeria, Iran, Columbia, Syria, and Mexico.