President Trump’s “Board of Peace” isn’t just another Gaza initiative, it’s an attempt to replace the entire post-1945 world order with something far more transactional, and far more dangerous
In this episode, Meira K walks you through the collapse of the League of Nations, the built-in dysfunction of the U.N. (vetoes, bureaucracy, “peacekeeping” theater), and how Western complacency helped create the vacuum that BRICS is now racing to fill. The core lesson: global power is shifting away from “international law” toward leverage, and Trump is betting peace can be engineered like a business deal. But there’s a big unresolved question hanging over it all: can economic incentives restrain ideologues, especially jihadists, or does this model simply buy time for the next war?
CHAPTERS
— Chaos everywhere… but there’s a method
— 1920: the League of Nations and the first “peace through institutions” experiment
— The U.N.’s real reach: agencies, standards, and the money
— The problem no one can fix: enforcement and “legitimacy” without power
— Security Council veto: why the U.N. freezes when big powers fight
— NATO vs. U.N.: what each actually is (and why it matters)
— Cold War reality: ideology vs. ideology, and how it shaped the West
— When the U.N. tried to act: Rwanda, Bosnia, Somalia and the credibility crash
— BRICS and multipolarity: the challenge to U.S. dominance (and the dollar)
— Davos “Board of Peace”: pay-to-play, economic coercion, and the gamble ahead
