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Standing up to oppressors

In the United Nations Security Council are seated two black holes that call themselves China and Russia. In reality, their names are Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.

The true, peaceful and democratic interests of the peoples of China and Russia are totally suppressed by Xi and Putin in order to further their own power.

To ensure this, they aim to suck every last fragment of democracy, open society, and rule of law out of our world. Every authoritarian petty dictatorship is protected by these two hyper-dictators: Belarus, Cuba, Egypt, Myanmar, Syria, Venezuela, etc.

What if Xi and Putin decide to combine their black holes to simultaneously invade Taiwan and Ukraine? Would nuclear war be inevitable or would the world capitulate in order to avoid the annihilation of humanity?

I believe the free and open societies of the world need to act urgently to abandon the failed United Nations and create a new entity that I name ‘‘The United Free Nations’’ – membership of which would require proof of democratic governance, freedom of the press, and rule of law.

The UFN would be equipped with military forces to be used to prevent acts of genocide, oppression by despots, and corruption . . .

But it is too late, I fear.

Dominic Baron, Upper Hutt

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2021-12-04T08:00:00.0000000Z

2021-12-04T08:00:00.0000000Z

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