Remember these days. Remember the sunlight and the rain. Yet be joyful - any day without nuclear winter is a good day! And, if you are really lucky, you may get to tell your grandchildren about this lead-up to WW III. We're faced with a silver-back with an empire fantasy; we're faced with another silver-back throwing air-power juvenile-male tantrums anytime important people visit Taiwan. On the third pole of Orwell's 1984 permanent-war triumvirate is a certain fossil.
Yet people just love to push War to the limit (or beyond), that seems to be the plan, since nuclear power looks like the logical end-point of the male brain thought process, and everyone is just supposed to go along with it (lemmings?). People just have to demand better governance!
At present, I am proposing what I call The Grand Bargain, which might result in world peace:
NATO is an evil in this world but has been built up to such an extent that it makes an excellent bargaining chip.
Without naming any international bad actors, let us propose to the world that in exchange for disbanding NATO, the Security Council of the UN will be upgraded so that it actually serves its intended purpose. There will be no "permanent members;" all members will be appointed by the General Assembly from a list of nations ranked in order of how well they have provided peace, order and good governance and generally improved living conditions in their countries, during the previous five years.
Nations which have instigated wars inside or outside their borders are proscribed. The principal activity of the Security Council will be to promote peace and prohibit all wars in and between nations. We cannot pretend to have a civilization on this small blue planet as long as war is an ever-present option.
The Security Council will have the power to call any offending nation to the floor of the General Assembly to explain to the world how they intend to provide peace, order and good governance in lands they control; otherwise, they immediately lose sovereignty and become dependencies of the UN.
Then, having established that sovereignty is not a singular property of a nation but rather an attribute conferred upon it by the consensus of the world community, we can make progress on getting nations to live in usufruct, living on the fruits of the land, rather than tearing it apart for profit. Thus the intended actions of China, for example, would be ruled out, that being their desire to fully "develop" their "Great Western Storehouse”, meaning their intention to mine the Tibet Plateau down to sea-level or below in their quest for world-dominance in mineral production.
Plan:
1. UN proposes all nuclear powers destroy all of their nuclear weapons.
2. need a de-centralized (think anonymous hacker group) group of assassins kills world leaders that disagree with step 1 above.
https://kathleenmccroskey.substack.com/p/a-possible-path-to-peace
I respect what you are trying to accomplish here, but I think you are overlooking some things:
"The Security Council will have the power to call any offending nation to the floor of the General Assembly to explain to the world how they intend to provide peace, order and good governance in lands they control; otherwise, they immediately lose sovereignty and become dependencies of the UN."
Any nation that agrees to the paragraph above has already forfeit their sovereignty, they are subjects of the UN. It will be hard to get all nations to agree to this. Unfortunately the proposed solution requires that all parties agree on something. It doesn't matter what that something is, it could be agreeing to be subjects of the UN, or it could be agreeing that nuclear weapons should be abolished.
All experience has shown that no such agreement will materialize naturally. It will have to be coerced. And since humans are known to be fickle and dishonest, all parties will need to have their anti-nuclear devotion & dedication frequently re-assessed.
Any non-compliant parties must be immediatly subdued with overwhelming violence. That is the reality, I don't think there is any other way.
Additionally a global brainwashing campaign needs to be implemented. This should be designed to minimize the risk of new leaders starting their own covert nuclear weapons program.
This re-education/disinformation campaign will need to continue indefinately. It is key that this program really works, otherwise someone will covertly develop nuclear arms & usurp your authority.
This sounds like a dystopian nightmare.
Please tell I'm wrong.