President Trump is clearly unimpressed by the UN’s record in trying to resolve recent conflicts and establish peace. He has referred to how he has had to assume the peace mantle in Gaza, Ukraine and many other hotspots around the world, faced with a UN that does not seem able to get the parties to the table or to enforce a peace once there is a ceasefire.
As a result he is setting up a new Peace Board for the world which he will chair, whose aims will be to establish and manage peace settlements around the globe. He is inviting world leaders to join him and claims that 35 have so far agreed to do so.
European countries and the UK are reluctant or unwilling to join because Mr Putin is going to be a member. President Trump’s point is you do not get peace unless the main powers and regional protagonists are round the same table. He could also point out that the presence of Mr Putin at the Security Council of the UN with a right to veto does not prevent EU countries belonging to the UN nor prevent the UK and France being fellow Security Council members around the same table as Russia.
What can this new body do? The original sketch seemed to be to get interested parties together to help stabilise and rebuild Gaza after the war, but the remit now seems much broader. It would be good to know if this is seen as a ginger group to show the UN how to get progress to peace, or a planned replacement for a UN adjudged too unwieldy and wrong headed by the US President. Will this body end up concentrating on Gaza? Does Mr Putin’s likely presence make settlement of Ukraine any more likely? As countries wishing to be permanent members are invited to contribute $1bn, what will they do with the money? Will this body soon have staff and a prestigious headquarters? Will this body carry on after the Trump Presidency? What are the succession plans for its chairmanship?
There are plenty of questions to be answered before you can come to a fair assessment of this initiative. Many of us want peace and will back ways that can promote it effectively. A UN that works better would be great, or an alternative to the UN that works would be good, but a contest between rival bodies dividing the democracies over which to support would not be helpful.
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January 23, 2026
It seemed at cursory glance that the UK was being asked to fork out a billion dollars to have the privilege of one T.Blair on the board as our rep.. even enough to put Starmer off ? I sincerely hope so.
January 23, 2026
It seems almost perverse to have Blair on board. Almost as perverse as him being made a special envoy for the Middle East, (or whatever his title was) considering the catastrophic effect of his dalliance there.
Effects we still feel today.
January 23, 2026
Tony Blair “Peace Envoy” was it not!
Tom Lehrer
“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize [in 1973].”
January 23, 2026
Well they can save over £30 billion plus just by ditching the mad Chagos lunacy and a further £50 billion (every year) by ditching net zero! Making our defence and the economy far stronger in the process too. The UK government would be stupid not to be involved. But we know the UK government is indeed either extremely stupid or they actually do want to damage the UK surely no other explanations!
January 23, 2026
Starmer gave Davos a swerve as his courtship of Trump seemed to be failing. Trump himself was still moaning in CAPITAL letters about being denied a Nobel Peace Prize!
Who would have imagined that this is what international diplomacy would turn into. I never know if Trump is being serious or if it his own private joke. Maybe the lunatics have taken over the asylum?
January 23, 2026
@Peter – the only rationale, is that last time in office he was given the run around he and the USA achieved nothing. Talks about talks about talks, and the imbalances remained This time he has taken it to them, become the disrupter and as such is changing minds, causing the change of direction from the Worlds free-loaders, getting others to take responsibility for themselves. Forcing things to be more mutually reciprocal
January 23, 2026
IB,
There are certainly less revolving doors this term. Trump has picked his team based on how loyal to him he thinks they will be. That said, I thought JohnBolton was bad the first time round. However, he was only in favour of wars. He never fully articulated the ‘might is right’ philosophy like Stephen Miller.
I am not sure if Trump is a deliberate disrupter or if that is a positive spin on his changes of message.
January 23, 2026
Usually a Trump joke to grab attention or get some action he can ne very amusing indeed. An old man in a hurry often not a bad thing on balance! He got action a Greenland hopefully he will stop Starmer’s Chagos lunacy and at least get some relaxation on the Net Zero insanity and action on immigration levels for local election cancelling Starmer. How is local election counselling Kemi today?
January 23, 2026
The UN is a captured institution:
1, The mass immigration scandal is proof of its biased agenda.
2. The offshoots like the WHO are downright dangerous. Yesterday the USA officially left that dangerous body which has taken the unilateral power to declare worldwide ‘pandemics’.
3. The current Chairman is ( rest deleted as wrong. He is from Ethiopia where he was Health Minister)
Moreover it is an outrage that France has a permanent seat in the Security Council, it was NOT an ally but cooperated with the Nazi’s during the war. Churchill was far too magnanimous in victory.
It is important that the world powers have a place to talk and negotiate and put their case before terrible action like that forced on Russia in Ukraine is undertaken. We do NOT want one country, even the USA to have hegemony, because unfettered power corrupts.
It is a great shame that the U.K. judges itself unfit to be present, after watching Lammy and Reeves contribution at Davos I’m am relieved that these unfit people will not have that world stage to humiliate us. The English speaking world have to accept that the USA now speaks for us.
Let’s hope the United Kingdom survive as the home for the 4 nations which constitute the British people and recovers itself so that one day we can take our rightful place on the world stage once more.
All current international bodies, NGOs and Charities need to be sidelined and dissolved asap.
January 23, 2026
O’Sullivan’s First Law
“All organizations that are not overtly right-wing will, over time, become left-wing.”
Plus very many of the overtly right wing ones like the Conservative Party.
January 23, 2026
‘The English speaking world have to accept that the USA now speaks for us. ‘
No – Trump ( rest of USA ignored) speaks INSTEAD of the English speaking world who better bow to him or else.
January 23, 2026
If you deliberately degrade your country, there is a price to pay.
January 23, 2026
The UK need a similar construct of the great and the good to contribute to government and advise in the name of national unity. Perhaps you could head this up John? The House of Lords is too unwieldy. It needs 8 -10 wise sages (refreshed every 2 years) to save us from the ill-advised, course we appear to be on with some fresh ideas.
January 23, 2026
@Simon Hodges. In theory, debateably good. In practice, demonstrably bad. Instead of 8 Redwoods you would get 8 Blairs. Let’s not go there!
January 23, 2026
The UN isn’t seeking to keep the peace. It’s seeking to become a Communist/Socialist One World Government.
January 23, 2026
@Donna +1
Exactly
January 23, 2026
@Donna +1
January 23, 2026
+1
January 23, 2026
Good morning.
The Un started off OK when it could project its will with force, albeit with US and coalition troops. It currently does not have its own army and, what forces it can rely on are not for combat. It is simply a Paper Tiger.
January 23, 2026
What is the UN if not just another globalist money gobbling entity with jobs for the boys of certain political persuasion.
If Trump sees it as such himself and thinks he could field an alternative, well more power to him.
There would have to be rigorous checks and balances to ensure it didn’t end up going the same way once certain types got their feet under the table (T. Blair)
However, mainstream media and globalist players will cut their own throats rather than even begin to entertain anything Trump does or says as being sincere in its initial aims.
As his language isn’t wrapped up in nonsensical buzz phrases and politically correct terms, they, through their inability to connect with the common man often misunderstand his meanings, and always wilfully misinterpret them.
January 23, 2026
@Michelle. I think you underestimate the globalists’ willingness to do anything, however personally distasteful to them, to achieve their objectives. These people would willingly sup with the devil himself to get what they want.
Look at their recent sycophantic behaviour towards Trump (who in my view is more shambolic than diabolic). They detest him, yet they have been fawning over him. Rutte called him “Daddy” in public, and Macron writes to him as “my friend”.
January 23, 2026
Yep they arse-lick like fools, have they got no self-respect?
At least Starmer has not joined the latest Trump Nobel bid club.
January 23, 2026
Globalism is over. Even Carney said that. Putin was accused of ‘betraying the WEF’ and broke their lockstep which was required to subjugate the world.
January 23, 2026
“…you do not get peace unless the main powers and regional protagonists are round the same table. ”
The Palestinians aren’t on the Peace Board for Gaza.
I can’t see this working out well for peace anywhere unless all parties involved in the dispute have their grievances and proposals neutrally considered.
Also many of the wars, conflicts or their underlying instabilities will have been started by Peace Board members playing power games. They will continue to want to play these games, using their dominance on the Peace Board to do it.
Look at the utter mess across the Middle East and North Africa and consider how we got there. Look at Ukraine (and I don’t cast the Russians as the provocateurs here). Look at Latin America.
If the Peace Boards are talking shops for the disputing and involved parties, that might help; if they are top-down we-know-best solution-imposing bodies run by whoever has most influence over the POTUS then they will create problems. The Balfour Agreement didn’t work out too well: with the “Peace Boards” we risk having a multitude of similar “agreements” in various corners of the globe.
January 23, 2026
W,
Saying anything critical about Gaza is antiseptic. Best let Trump and his son in law turn it into Gaza-a-Lago with a huge statue of a golden calf with Trump’s head on it.
Tony Blair is there because he has a history of saying what suits. Netanyahu complained that there were no Israelis on the Peace Board and now he is a member. You can guess the rest.
January 23, 2026
There is no country called ‘Palestine’ or nation of ‘Palestinian’, they do not have a seat in the UN.
January 23, 2026
and while the men continue to elect Hamas they should never be able to join anything!
January 23, 2026
@Lyn Atkinson. No seat at the UN (attempted 2011, 2024) because of the US veto in the Security Council. Prior to that the UN (1947) recommended partitioning it into a jewish and an arab state. Israel declared itself a country in 1948, but the arabs didn’t grasp the opportunity (a short-lived “all Palestine government” was formed but soon folded). I guess the jewish side felt it was getting something whereas the arab side felt it was giving away something. Looks like a bad move on the arabs’ part, with the benefit of hindsight.
As for being a country, in principle it has as much inherent right to nationhood as those states carved from the British Empire (India, Ireland etc), Yugoslavia’s fragments (Croatia, Bosnia), or the USSR’s successor republics (Ukraine, the Baltics). Its people share a distinct identity, deep historical roots in the land, and the same post-imperial self-determination impulse. This was acknowledged by the UN in 1947 and the impulse hasn’t gone away. UK, US & Israeli politics and their own poor leadership has stymied progress, one might say.
January 23, 2026
‘Palestine’ has refused the two state solution 4 times.
The UN Charter defines a country that qualifies for a seat.
January 23, 2026
The two state solution was never really accepted by Israel in the first place. They also had eyes on a Greater Israel – a land mass than was originally agreed.
They always found it easy and desirable to undermine two state discussions. USA and UK ignored these tactics so as not to upset the Israel lobby
January 24, 2026
The colonizers are those who built the Al-Aqsa Mosque on top of the Jewish temple.
Israel offered a two state solution multiple times and was repeatedly rejected by Hamas which passes as ‘Palestinian’, because they want ‘from the river to the sea aka the obliteration of the Jews.
January 23, 2026
@Wanderer – and Tony Blair on the Board to run Gaza?
January 24, 2026
Can you think of a better place to send Blair than Gaza?
Wish Greta could go with him.
January 23, 2026
“President Trump is clearly unimpressed by the UN’s record in trying to resolve recent conflicts and establish peace.”
Trump is not alone.
The UN is a greatly misunderstood body. It was best summarised by its representative (can’t remember his name) who visited us at the Joint Services Defence College some years ago as “nothing more than a talking shop”. It has no legal authority to compel countries to do anything. Enforcement of its resolutions is a matter for sovereign states. This is made clear by the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969) which recognizes and reaffirms the sovereignty of nation-states as a foundational principle of international law. There is an exception to this in the EU which removes the sovereignty of its member states to make itself a supra-national government. Nicer people than me say the member states ‘share’ sovereignty which is as daft a notion as criminal Islamophobia. States in the EU can gang up on another member state and compel it to act against its own national interests. Why anyone thinks that a good thing is beyond me. But many people see the EU as a model for one-world government and wish to restructure the UN similarly.
The UN fails not because Putin has a veto over resolutions of the security council (not over everything the UN does). So does China. It fails because so many UN agencies are captured by truly dreadful ideologies, notably socialism, anti-white racism, gender wokery, climate CAGW, human rights that insist all ideologies and all cultures are equal, and in some cases like UNWRA, it is actually run by terrorists and is a very active agent of conflict and violence.
On the other hand some parts like UNESCO, while still Left leaning, overall does some good.
The world is plagued by conflicts of various levels of intensity and always has been. The UN has done much to intensify and prolong the conflict in Gaza and has really played no part in Ukraine. So at least on these two conflicts I agree that an organisation outside the UN has amuch to commend it, depending on how it is setup. It cannot have any authority over the protagonists but it might be able to act as an interlocutor. There is no existing body that can. So worth a shot. But I would not let Blair anywhere near it. He is an absolute ratbag. You can’t trust him as far as you could throw him. If people think a better way to resolve the conflict in Ukraine is to bang heads together then it can only be a sovereign state with the necessary clout. There is only one: Trump’s America.
January 23, 2026
@Peter Gardner – agreed.
UN infiltrated by left-wing unelected, unaccountable, bureaucrats agitators to be self-serving has lost it purpose and reason.
But lets not forget as a lot of commentators seem to miss Trump is a disruptor, a disrupter first, that in just over a year has refocused minds, trade is becoming more equitable, its now not just one nation funding the bulk of the EU’s defence.
Drug barons causing misery around the World are being held to account
Even Greenland was to me forcing others to step up and share the burden. Now, just maybe the UN will get a focus on its real purpose or actually disappear.
January 23, 2026
UN is both a talking shop and a well paid sinecure for many in third world countries.
Trump’s Peace Board will be a privatised version of the UN, for the benefit of Trump and his pals. It will be much smaller than the UN. Those not invited may be able to join if they can stump up one billion dollars for the privilege.
It is symptomatic of the end of the American hegemony. BRICS will just get stronger. The dollar will lose its status as a reserve currency. Life will become less comfortable for American citizens. Europe will have to review its plans without the ongoing support of America and perhaps increasing hostility on trade.
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January 23, 2026
UK should decline to join the Peace Board because we can’t afford the membership fee and just sit back and watch. With USA and Saudi being on the board and funding it it may do some good in the Middle East. Trump’s foreign policy initiatives have been rather successful when compared to his predecessors – de-escalting the situation with North Korea during his first term and imposing some sort of better-than-nothing deal on Gaza, also putting Iran on notice by stopping their nuclear programme. I assume when Trump is gone the Globalists will seep back and things will revert to normal. We don’t hear much from the UK Foreign Secretary on any of these matters, all we see is Starmer swanning around the world and getting humiliated.
January 23, 2026
@Roy Grainger – the alternative perspective is that the UK has no ability to join in, it has no money even the little left is being removed as we sit here. The UK has no defence capability, the men and equipment have gone and the Government is threatening all recruits the Law will persecute them for doing want Parliament orders them to do. What some assume is a UK defence industry is in ownership terms located elsewhere, the rest have been banished from the UK by Parliament. The UK Parliament cant do its first job of keeping us safe and secure they trashed it. So an irrelevant UK part of the Peace Board, in its self is irrelevant.
January 23, 2026
The Abraham Accords were a triumph.
January 23, 2026
Trump was forced into a famous climbdown over Greenland at the Davos meeting. Presented with a united NATO front with Canada, Britain, France and Germany siding with the Greenlanders, he had little option.
Carney delivered an impressive speech, telling Trump to his face exactly what Canada thought of him, while announcing severe restrictions on the transfer of Canadian lake water to America in response to Trump’s tariffs
Uniting and standing up to bullies is always the best option. They are cowards at heart. Trump, who received multiple deferments for the Vietnam war draft and was ultimately given a medical exemption, famously referred to the American heroes buried at Arlington as “losers”
At Davos, Trump insulted the memory of hundreds of NATO troops (including 457 British servicemen) who lost their lives during the Afghanistan conflict – by claiming that they were stationed “away from the front lines”
This man, clearly suffering from megalomania, goes to bed each night within reach of the US “nuclear football” Good grief.
January 23, 2026
@Sakara Gold
Hardly – Trump was exactly where he wanted to be and got a lot more than he would have if he hadn’t started off playing tough.
As for globalist Carney and his great reset – he’s busy surrendering his country to China so that the school bully won’t hit him. He’s another one responsible for the destructive path too many countries have taken in the name of WEF and internationalism, not to mention the UN’s intent on being the world government.
January 23, 2026
Indeed the dire Carney and also the dire two Tier Kier!
January 23, 2026
Queues are out the block in Alberta demanding a referendum to secede from Canada.
January 23, 2026
PotUS went to Davos with a novel approach to diplomacy: ‘You’re pathetic, your societies and economies are falling apart, and now give us Greenland’. Result: Europe humiliated him, he dropped his latest tariff threat in return for a framework that gave the US essentially nothing he didn’t already have and left behind a Europe more united in resistance to Trump’s bullying.
Obviously one would not read that in the UK press, not even the Guardian, but try if you can to read analyses from a wide range of foreign commenters, Canadian, continental European, press agencies (AP, AFP, Reuters, Al-Jazeera) and see what the dominant message is.
PotUS is applying Bannon’s advice ‘every day flood the place with extreme messages to keep being on top of the news’. So yesterday’s top one (as seen from the UK) is Nato’s role in Afghanistan. Tomorrow what will be his Truth Social messages?
Obviously on a much smaller scale some other people are also trying the same thing … to keep a restricted readership interested on their rather frivolous person.
January 23, 2026
We watched the speeches, we don’t need a journalist to ‘interpret it for us’.
We see the EU falling apart, Germany is attacking it now.
We live in the countries occupied by alien cultures using our institutions and money to colonise us.
We know who was speaking the truth.
January 24, 2026
But you relied on a journalist to tell you about that possible Alberta referendum, no?
As for ‘we know who was speaking the truth’, people’s perception appear to be somewhat different, doesn’t it?
yougov..co.uk 31/12/2025 ‘How popular is Donald Trump in Europe? December 2025’ Italy -52%, France -56%, Spain -58%, UK -59%, Germany -66%, Denmark -82%.
January 24, 2026
You used journalists to gather information for your post hefner.
Presumably it is better because you agree with it.
PS All your figures about the popularity of the President are rather irrelevant as they don’t get to vote in USA elections.
January 24, 2026
Hefner I relied on multiple film on social media for the Alberta queues.
Get into your head that nobody cares about what or whether European leaders think and we don’t trust their corrupt polling.
We don’t know what the PEOPLE of Europe think anymore because they live under threat of arrest and worse.
January 23, 2026
H,
“ Once home, the jet-lagged president made over 70 posts during a 50-minute period from 12:40 a.m to 1:30 a.m, with a slew of MAGA-friendly reposts clogging his feed. Many of the posts appeared in his feed twice in a row.”
All this while running the greatest country in the world. He would even give Lifelogic a run for his money.
Perhaps the two could get in contact? LL could alert him to the hidden dangers of PPE graduates.
January 23, 2026
SG
I don’t think you understand how Teump negotiate, first you start out with outrageous demands then you settle for what you wanted in the first place. He has already been told ge can put unlimited bases on Greenland, that sounds like a win to me. He may never own it but he’ll certainly control it
January 24, 2026
The possibility of more US bases in Greenland exists from the 1951 Defence of Greenland Treaty between Denmark and the USA. And the USA at a time had three such bases, Thule, Narsarsuaq and Sondestrom. Now it only has Pittufik, the new name of Thule.
January 23, 2026
Looking at the Lords they have or have had about 8 wise sages JR, Matt Ridley, Peter Lilly, Toby Young and four more sensible ones but that is about the limit. So just fire all the dire 800 plus rest of them – start with Theresa May, Cameron, Adonis, Amis, Hale, Blunkett, Gove, Warsi, Kinnock, all the Lords Temporal (Bishops), Heseltine… all the Two Tier Kier appointments, all ex labour and LibDim politician and most ex Con-Socialist ones appointed by Major, Cameron, May, Sunak, Boris, Blair, Brown …
January 23, 2026
Add Lord Frost to the good list alas Tebbit and Nigel Lawson (sound on climate despite his PPE) are no more so cannot be cloned.
Lord Debden (Gummer) to the very bad list, but then 99% of the Lords should never have been appointed. Nearly all in the Lords are deluded (on the make or both) from the Net Zero religion.
I keep hearing the prase “Climate Change is Real” even from relative climate realists. Of course “climate change is real” it always has always changed and alwasy will but that is not the point. The question is “Is there some real and serious climate emergency that can be avoided by a war on manmade fosil fuel produced CO2?” – Answer no not at all! The war on CO2 does far more harm than good. £Trillions wasted zero benefit and mush net harm!
A good “The Sceptic” podcast by Lord Frost just out. All the worse decision got taken when all the parties agreed – the EU, Net Zero, the Covid lockdown and vaccines, ESG, judges and courts setting wages for jobs they know nothing about (thus bankrupting Birminham with the equality act), the NHS…deluded group think lunacy in so very many areas.
January 23, 2026
Rather better to be a renter in Crowborough than a home owner as you will likely have lost about 50% of your property value overnight and prob. be unable to even sell at all!
On this work of equal value I assume the judges will conclude that all people who sit at a desk reading, chatting to people on the phone and sending a few emails and letters should logically be paid just the same per hour as any lawyer! Or someone who repairs electronic equipment should get the same as a surgeon who repairs people!
Supply and demand goes out of the window and you wreck the economy with mad socialism!
Total insanity from Labour and harrietharman.org “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” or was she really so daft as not to see the obvious consequences? Like introducing huge net reverse discrimination and wrecking supply and demand!
https://www.harrietharman.org
The Equality Act – Harriet Harman MP
The Equality Act was intended to promote equality, fight discrimination in all its forms, including age discrimination, and introduce transparency in the …
January 23, 2026
@Lifelogic – but they represent no one.
January 23, 2026
The concept of a world body able to broker peace when two nations conflict is a great ambition.
The UN was a replacement for the League of Nations that had been unable to prevent the Second World War. The UNs original objective to bring forward peace has been compromised over the years with branching activities that now make the organisation incapable of fulfilling its basic role.
The UNs priorities have also been weaponised primarily by left wing activists that has brought us to the Net Zero policies and promotion of a world without fossil fuel ideology.
If the UN was properly run and maintained its true function of settling conflict through arbitration and dialogue it would be worth maintaining it. If it continues on the path towards its goal of being the One world Governing Body, (unelected) which is the ambition of the globalists and the ambition of the UN bureaucrats themselves, then the time is right to close it down.
The UN lacks the basic lever needed to be a key player in peace talks. It does not have a big stick. That missing component is clearly where Trump sees the US role by chairing the Peace Board.
The last war in Europe was stopped by NATO intervention led by the USA. It was not stopped by UN peacekeepers being on the ground ignoring the atrocities taking place in Bosnia and the surrounding lands.
January 23, 2026
@Rod Evans – yes.
In a nutshell you could suggest the ‘unelected, unaccountable, bureaucrats’ have destroyed themselves and need replacing, it needs to go. But, a ‘Peace Board’ ?
For me once Tony Blair(the destroyer of democracy and society) became involved it had already signed its own death warrant
January 23, 2026
The Peace Board is not something I know enough about to comment on. The key issue for world peace is to have working commercial relationships and integrate economic activity among the leading world powers.
The failure of the UN and the ongoing expansion of its failure into new areas of incompetence and failure is enough to dump it and look for a better option.
One thing is certain, membership of any organisation that claims to represent the best interests of the world its needs and its people should be conditional on member nations conforming to those ideals.
Those who choose dictatorship over democracy should be ejected from the organisation and not allowed to simply sit pontificating about others as they do now.
January 23, 2026
Posturing at a level never seen before……..
January 23, 2026
The UN, like many global authorities, is weakened by having to appoint administrators from corrupt, tin pot third world countries to its boards in order to maintain any influence. The members of the security council have enough leverage to sit without rotating members.
With the power of veto of the big five the additional members are powerless anyway
January 23, 2026
Trumps erratic performance, misinformation and lies presented at Davos are sufficient to deter membership of any institution chaired by Trump.
January 23, 2026
Well he is right on the Net Zero hoax, right on Israel, much of his peace agenda has worked, right on US energy policy, right on illegal immigration, largely right on rip off credit car interest rates (his Davos speach), right on growth, right on the importance of Greenland, right on Chagos, right on free speech… plus you do have to admire his general self effacing modesty!
Would you really have preferred Obama, Biden, Harris?
Hopefully we will see more positives in Iran, Gaza, Ukraine, Russia, the UK (if Two Tier listens to Trump on net zero and immigration levels) and Venezuela and the electoral demise of the dire Mark Carney in Canada! I agree Trump is not perfect but they never are!
January 23, 2026
@James Morley – and the WEF the organiser of Davos?
January 23, 2026
Please elaborate.
January 23, 2026
If Trump wanted to bring peace to Ukraine, he has a straightforward way of doing it: stop supplying money and weapons to Zelensky so he can continue the war. But he’s not allowed to take that step.
January 23, 2026
You really think that would bring peace? Putin would immediately increase the bombing etc, patriotic Ukrainians would fight on, sniper fire, suicide bombs….bringing carnage to a whole new level.
January 23, 2026
+1 Putin has been very clever, all the frozen Russian funds to Trump for the rebuilding of Ukraine after the cessation of hostilities.
1. He deprives the EU of the funds.
2. He gets his funds spent on what he wants it to be spent on – Russia has probably spent that much already rebuilding Mariupol etc.
3. He empowers Trump and gives him a diplomatic win against the deep state in the USA.
January 23, 2026
How is surrender to an invader going to result in peace. Bullies only know how to bully.
January 23, 2026
I believe you have to be at the table to change things even with the bad guys. This is short sited by UK and EU. My only worry is this a Trump money making scheme
January 23, 2026
The UN costs the USA billions.
If Trump does show a profit it will be centuries before they break even.
January 24, 2026
+1
January 23, 2026
The UN has failed the world in so many ways – by creating an alternative to it Trump has enabled the possibility for it to be defunded and allowed to wash away.
I’d really like to see a detailed analysis of how the UN spends it’s money. I suspect more is spent on fancy buildings, jollies and woke projects than goes to the frontline. How many years has the UN been in operation and still the number of deprived/starving children remains high and conflicts unresolved.
It is time for a new approach and Trump has the guts to make it happen.
Starmer has clearly got the hump with Trump, and who can blame him. Starmer’s form of globalism and international law is now as dead as the great reset, even if Carney of Canada is still surrendering his country to it. Trump was right about Canada – the current politicians are doing a very bad job and should allow the country to join with America.
January 23, 2026
Yes. And we should too. We Europeans need to consolidate somewhere, we are spread too thin across the world.
January 23, 2026
Another expensive talking shop and one which the UK is unable to find the joining fee or quality representation. Given that our politicians find it hard enough to run this country getting involved with this latest committee is certainly beyond them – think Cooper Lammy Starmer
January 23, 2026
Needless competetive duplication.
January 23, 2026
On the contrary. The UN needs a competitor. It has been captured by the Left and in particular, China, and now serves no useful purpose other than as an organisation to destroy the West and democracy. Robert Conquest’s second law of politics apply: “Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.”
January 23, 2026
Correct
January 23, 2026
The UN has been a ‘busted flush’ for sometime, its own self-importance allowed it to get ahead of itself. Started out as well-meaning with the same objective as Trump’s Peace Board, a talking place for the Worlds protagonists. The concept being a place to talk that could stave off some of the conflicts. It could be reasoned that theory worked, even worked so well that the jumped up unelected, unaccountable, bureaucratic officials within the UN didn’t really have much alternative purpose.
Then the rot set in, the desire for self-importance, move beyond the brief and needed to work out another purpose. So the UN full of unelected, unaccountable, bureaucrats seemed to think ‘lets be the Worlds Government’ let us make the Laws that rule the World. The point they missed they had no legitimacy for this leap, they represented no one and were accountable to no one, and the Citizens of the World never voted for them – the very bed-rock of Legitimate Legislators. Yes there were agreements between the separate parties at the UN that had meaning as long as those in the agreement saw the situation to be mutually beneficial, but they were never and are still not Laws.
So yes the EU loves the UN as it mirrors their mode of operations, ‘unelected, unaccountable, bureaucrats’, as rulers. The EU has there other none body ECHR that also has no legitimacy in that its rulers have no democratic legitimacy.
January 23, 2026
Given we are talking about ‘Trump’, we must also we are talking about a ‘disrupter’. He is causing those that have strayed to re-think, come back down to earth and remember their actual legitimate position.
UN’s WTO wasn’t working it was biased and not reciprocal and permitted the opposite of what was intended ‘Trade Barriers’ they were and are killing World trade
NATO wasn’t working it had become just one Nation funding unequally the protection of all the others
To make Laws you have to first earn the votes from those citizens you wish to dictate to, you must also have a situation that those same citizens can enforce changes, amend, and finally repeal any diktats. Then laws have a purpose.
The root of Society is Democracy circumvent that and you are simply a Dictator. Society is Law, real Law is English Law, that is not patriotic or what ever, the UK doesn’t practice English Law it discard it, but it is the law in the Worlds free democracies, it is chosen and maintained by their citizens.
January 23, 2026
@Ian B
This is a rubbish post. Trump is so full of boastful bullshit it stinks
Having advised the Iran protesters that “help is on it’s way” and making threats against the regime if it started shooting the protesters – as is the customary Ayatollah treatment for them – Trump has now tied support for the Iran protesters should the Ayatollahs re-start their nuclear programme
Reports now coming out of Iran via OSINT sources (the first thing Iran did after Trump offered his “support” was to cut off their internet) are suggesting at least 8,000 killed. And they are now carrying out clandestine hangings involving about 850 protesters – mainly Kurds from the NE provinces accused of “Moharebeh – waging war on god”
Trump has despatched an aircraft carrier strike group to the middle east and the UK has deployed 12 Squadron, the joint UK–Qatar Typhoon unit. Who are we going to bomb this time?
January 23, 2026
It’s not over til the fat lady sings…
January 24, 2026
@Lynn Atkinson
Join a gym and stop drinking
January 23, 2026
Europe has an outstanding reputation for achieving nothing
President Trump has a reputation for getting things done and I wish him well in achieving peace
January 23, 2026
I do not know enough about how this so called organisation is going to work, but it looks more like a commercial Development company at first sight, with perhaps the idea that peace will bring the opportunity for profit as a sort of aim. Nothing wrong with making money as a bi product if it will truly bring a long lasting and meaningful peace if that is the aim, but I wait to be convinced.
I hope I am desperately wrong, but let’s just wait and see how the present land owners in Gazza are going to be treated, or completely ignored.
One thing is certain the UN has become nothing more than a talking shop, and has failed to resolve the Worlds differences, will never forget how UN troops stood aside a watched people being murdered in the Balkans a few years ago.
January 23, 2026
Who are the land owners of Gaza?
January 24, 2026
Lynn
I have absolutely no idea of the legal situation, I guess many individuals, or it could even be Israel, or some clandestine form of Hamas.
Can only assume the original property had some form of approval, from some sort of official/acting organisation.
Did those properties have mortgages or loans secured against something tangible.
Will it all be compulsorily purchased, if so by whom, and payment (if any) by whom to whom.
January 24, 2026
Individual property deeds is not the same as ‘owning a country’ – else we would have to cede Birmingham, London and much more.
The Jewish people own Gaza because they won it in war. Immediately prior to that Egypt owned Gaza – why did they not establish a ‘Palestinian state’ for their Mozlem brothers?
The issue is not Gaza, it’s the destruction of Israel that is the (Islamic extremist ed)imperative.
January 23, 2026
Krasnov should really headquarter the board of peace in Moscow as am sure that would please everyone including Putin Orban Milei and the rest of the stooges. I didn’t notice Fico of Slovenia in the lineup but am sure he’s there sonewhere.
January 23, 2026
Cancellation of Juries, the giveaway of UK Territory to then lease it back, The trillions on Netzero after first cancelling the means to generate the money to fund it. The cancelling of elections in the name of democracy by those that are failing their constituents. Banning free-speech for under 16’s and then wanting them to be able to vote.
All the result of 5 year terms in office before seeking approval in the ballot box. This year after just a little over a year in office Trump will have democratic elections that will confirm whether the directions he his taking his people meets with their approval or not. Love him or hate him he can be challenged by the free sovereign nation he represents – not so elsewhere.
The UK? its Parliament is in hiding, refusing elections banning speech warping the Law and able to maintain its wreaking ball position without challenge or approval. Why, because they want to be protected from those that empower and pay them.
January 23, 2026
The world has been asked to come together to help solve one of the longest running conflicts in history. These opportunities come round maybe once in a century. And yet HM Government refuses to help in this noble enterprise. It is clear the British establishment have no intention for peace in Ukraine; Middle East; or anywhere else. Indeed it appears they wish to prolong world conflict, whilst also creating the causes for conflict at home.
January 23, 2026
Trump’s attack that British troops in Afghan held back is a complete insult to our armed forces and our great country.
450 from the British armed forces were killed in Afghanistan and many more wounded.
People who try and defend Trump, overall (he’s done some good things for sure) are selling our great country short (that doesn’t let the EU off the hook – but supporters of Trump need to see how Trump is insulting us and also undermining our great country overall).
January 23, 2026
The U.K. had 5,700 troops in Afghanistan at the peak against the USA’s 23,000.
The U.K. was the second biggest contribution.
There were also navy and other contributions which show the same balance of contribution between the USA and other NATO countries.
Trump was comparing the contribution of USA against NATO forces, look up the numbers sent by other NATO countries, and note that many were sent on condition they were ‘in support’ ie behind the lines.
Now the Finnish PM says he can defend Finland without the USA, but admits he can’t get a fighter plane into the air alone. Don’t be as stupid as the Finnish PM.
January 24, 2026
@Lynn – the observation there is that Finland on its own did fend off Russia when they invaded – Russia was repelled. As such Finland has conscription to cope with its very long border. From a population of just 5.6 million they have a trained armed force of 500,000 in readiness – they have stayed prepared. Finland didn’t join NATO until 2023.
January 24, 2026
The Winter War 1939 – 40 against the USSR resulted in Finland losing 9% of its territory. At the time the USSR was distracted by preparing to cope with 85% of the NAZI war machine.
If that’s victory then I’m a Dutchman.
PS Douglas McGregor in an interesting interview with Glen Diesen says NATO weakness is based on the disparate forces each under different training, munitions and command. That is why they are and will remain weak compared to a unified force e under a unified Command with a cohesive war plan.
It is why he predicted in 2021 that the Russians would fight in Ukraine, would win and that it would cause the end of NATO.
January 24, 2026
Curious. In 1939-40 the Molotov-Ribbentrop Agreement was still on and the USSR was not ‘distracted by preparing to cope with 85% of the Nazi war machine’. The invasion of the USSR by Germany, Operation Barbarossa, only started in June 1941.
January 24, 2026
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January 23, 2026
@Ed M – as others have said that heard what Trump said the coversation was about the whole NATO pulling its wieght. He didnt select or call out the UK, that was just our media looking for a headline. The story soon died away, I guess that was after they reviewed what was said.
Basic math and proportionality. The USA provides is around 75% of NATO’s funding, and a similar proportion of its men and equipment, but by population it accounts for just about 30% of NATO’s make up. The USA lost some 2,300 men and the UK 457, the rest….
Another thought, the SAS hero that also served in Afganistan and was neglected by the UK Government was personnaly hired by Trump as one of his bodygaurds because of his record, so Trump would have been aware of the UK’s contribution to that effort when he hired Craig. Could it be that Trump like most of us see Europe the biggest part of the NATO population wise as seperate to the UK? The UK as part of 5 eyes, is integrated defence wise as a single entity, with the USA
January 24, 2026
‘Christian Craighead’ CGC MBE is not his real name the SAS don’t do real names. Donald Trump, who personally congratulated him on his actions, before offering him a job.
January 24, 2026
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January 24, 2026
Yes I think that just as colonial people spoke of England and meant Britain (famously including Kipling) Trump views the USA and U.K. forces as a whole.
Unless of course the rank stupidity of Starmer forces Trump to specify the issue (just as we are all forced to specify the stupidity of our own political class, an unhappy situation in which to find ourselves.)
January 25, 2026
Apologies, Ian, but you’re talking complete drivel here. Because you’re besotted by the man. And have lost all sense of objectivity / perspective.
January 23, 2026
As in Through the Looking Glass, Mr Humpty Trumpty said in a rather scornful tone “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
“So Mr Trumpty what do you mean by ‘Peace?'”
“I brought Peace to Iran by saying that “help” is on its way and therefore they cancelled all planned executions and when I said to keep protesting it meant that the protests should be in your mind and not in the street and I therefore brought Peace to the whole population. My “help” also includes a big beautiful prayer each night before bed which surely brings succour to all Iranians.”
“I brought Peace to Greenland (I often call it Iceland as it is a big beautiful lump of ice) by ensuring it does not suffer any threat from the North Pole and Greenlanders can now sleep soundly in their beds”
“I have more Peace medals than anybody in history – from FIFA, from Nobel that was kindly re-donated to me and I shall soon receive the inaugural Peace medal from the Board of Peace”
“I am Peace personified”.
January 23, 2026
President Trump likes to spread lies it’s part of his modus for creating chaos – the latest being the slur on the UK and European military war effort in Afghanistan where be maintains the allies took a back seat. So this is your choice now and the choice for the British people whether they still think that America and this Trump fellow is their best friend?
January 24, 2026
Did you notice Blackrock Mertz claiming that the EU Single Market, protected by a tariff wall and subsidies to a pipeline squeaking extent, was set up to be ‘the most competitive market on earth’.
😂 now either he is the stupidest person on Earth or he is lying. Which do you think it is?
Anyway the chaos they have caused has all but destroyed European civilisation completely, forever.
January 23, 2026
Trumps creation of the ‘BoP’ is a canter and direct result of the UK and others in allowing the UN to become a monster …way way way beyond it initial aims and remit
The same is true for the reform party ….we only have the reform challenge because labour & tory have become pathetic & elite
January 23, 2026
@glen cullen +1
The Socialist left wing cabal that is the UN, the UK establishment, have realised they have been rumbled but they now fight with inuedo. They need to feed the gravy train
January 24, 2026
Inuedo is political king …..everyone is trying to show how much they hate trump
January 23, 2026
the UN is a complete waste of time and money, and has just turned into an expense account for layers of hangers on. so leave it and stop paying.
as for what to do instead, not sure, but at least Trump is trying.
January 23, 2026
Agree
January 23, 2026
450 dead British soldiers in Afghanistan. Many wounded. And my cousins served twice in Afghanistan
Trump’s insult to our armed forces is unbelievable. And there is no way this kind of behaviour can be defended except that it’s just utterly contemptible behaviour and hostile to the UK which the armed forces play such a key role in.
January 23, 2026
Remember that during the Falklands war the NATO member and UN Security Council member France, refused to SELL us parts for armaments we had bought from them.
It was the USA which refuelled our aircraft midair, so they could get there. The ONLY help we had.
South Africa refused to allow us to use the navy port of Simonstown WHICH WE HAD BUILT, and which was the closest facility for our warships to the combat zone.
January 24, 2026
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January 24, 2026
Ed, NATO is more than the USA and U.K.
outside of the USA and U.K., the other NATO countries make very little contribution, demand to be ‘in supporting rolls’ or as Trump says safely out of range, and in the cases I cite are often on the side of the country attacking another NATO member – so France HELPED Argentina against the U.K. during the Falklands War.
South Africa, then a commonwealth country and ex- Dominion, refused to help the U.K. when we needed their help.
Only the USA helped us during the Falklands War.
January 23, 2026
‘The European political and financial elite knows that the war in Ukraine is lost but wants to use it as an opportunity to reach strategic independence from the United States. As the future chancellor of Germany Friedrich Merz said right after his electoral win on Feb 23: “It will be an absolute priority for me to strengthen Europe as soon as possible so much that it gradually really achieves independence from the United States.”
https://mises.org/mises-wire/eu-wants-use-war-excuse-more-debt
January 23, 2026
We need America because we can invest there where there are better returns and also so that we don’t have to depend on the dreaded EU for anything – so if President Trump insults or says anything out of line that we don’t agree with we should also be prepared to let it pass.
January 23, 2026
With the USA we can buy & sell, with the EU we take regulation & instruction and with China we can buy & follow orders
January 23, 2026
@glen cullen – agreed.
January 23, 2026
Having worked in America for many years I am well aware that a lot of American political and higher media types talk about us behind our backs in an insulting and disparaging way and for this reason I am surprised that there is so much emphasis put on the British American special relationship when I know that no such thing exists.
January 24, 2026
We established and seeded the USA, it is our Successor Nation as Rome was to Greece.
The special relationship is not founded on the relationship of varying individuals, although it’s good when we have two leaders like Thatcher and Reagan, who see eye to eye.
It is based on a massive, immovable, irreplaceable foundation.
January 23, 2026
I do thank Trump for his, although late, intervention on the Chagos Islands ….its being reported that there’s another u-turn
January 23, 2026
The Bank of England has admitted it has been consistently wrong on inflation for years.
Forecasts for both wage growth and inflation had “proved repeatedly too low” since 2022, officials at the Bank said.
I have morphed into being 100% cynic.. They would only say that now if they had a political move planed. Starmer & Reeves have been the best thing ever for this country?
January 24, 2026
…and they only have that ‘one’ job
January 23, 2026
Late breaking news in the Telegraph
Sir Keir Starmer has been forced to pull his Chagos Islands bill in the wake of a US backlash over the deal.
The legislation was expected to be debated in the House of Lords on Monday, but was delayed on Friday night after the Conservatives warned it could violate a 60-year-old treaty with the US that enshrines British sovereignty over the archipelago.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/01/23/starmer-pulls-chagos-deal-following-trump-backlash/
January 23, 2026
We can but hope, but the UK’s traitors would not get their payday, so will be working all weekend to create legal reasons for non-binding treaties to become Law
January 23, 2026
The media still calls 2TK’s personal arrangement with Mauritius as handing them back sovereignty, they have never at any stage had sovereignty, infact no one from the island of Mauritius over 1000 miles away was ever on Chagos in the terms of being an inhabitant