by DANNY HAIPHONG
The United States has long positioned its imperial ambitions as the definition of international law and rejected entirely the spirit and authority of the U.N. Charter.
“Since the end of World War II, the United States and its allies have spearheaded an international regime of terror.”
A new alliance called the “Groups of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations” has formed in a clear act of resistance to the unilateral and aggressive policies of the United States and its junior partners. Representatives of the alliance reside fully in the Global South. Nations spearheading the initiative include the DPRK, Iran, Algeria, Angola, Belarus, Bolivia, Cambodia, Cuba, Eritrea, Laos, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent, and the Grenadines, Syria, Venezuela, and Palestine in addition to the largest of the developing countries, Russia and China. The alliance makes clear its firm opposition to coercive measures such as sanctions and the obliteration of historic agreements that emphasize multilateral cooperation.
There is a clear material foundation for the formation of the new alliance. The United States has long positioned its imperial ambitions as the definition of international law and rejected entirely the spirit and authority of the U.N. Charter. Hostility toward the U.N. Charter has only worsened over time whether in maneuvers such as the U.S. withdrawal from the INF treaty and the JPCOA or the imposition of starvation sanctions on Iran, Nicaragua, Syria, and Venezuela.
“U.S. Hostility toward the U.N. Charter has only worsened over time.”
These examples only scratch the surface of U.S. criminality in the international realm. Since the end of World War II, the United States and its allies have spearheaded an international regime of terror whose primary mission is to pacify the planet to the dictates of private capital and militarism. Whether in the form of the ongoing U.S. war of aggression on Korea or the CIA overthrow of the democratically-elected Iranian government in 1953, no nation in the Global South has come out unscathed from the U.S. empire’s destructive quest for hegemony.
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