From Victory to Vulnerability

This short book was written by Salim Maloof, posted on December 15, 2023

Abstract

The founding fathers of the UN (the old powers) counselled their heirs (their children) to let the societies that they freed and vanquished during WW2 determine their own political status and freely pursue their economic, social, and cultural development in the aftermath of WW2. In other words, the old powers (western European monarchs and republics) counselled their heirs to ensure that, irrespective of the type of political order UN member states adopt, the relations people establish in each UN member state are done in accordance with the principles suggested in the UN Charter and the UDHR.

In the aftermath of WW2, the heirs (the children) of the old powers had a different plan to rejuvenate their powers. The heirs of the old powers conjectured that if they let the United States, which they tasked with playing the role of global policemen in the aftermath of WW2, provide curriculum coursework in political and security (military) related fields to the people they freed in the aftermath of WW2 or vanquished during WW2, just as King Nebuchadnezzar was doing in antiquity, such a strategy would kill two birds with one stone. The first is that this strategy would enable them to make their enemies (adversaries, rivals) or allies come to them to provide the intelligence they need from them to keep their dominant role, instead of them going to those freed and vanquished people to collect it. The second is that this strategy allows the heirs of the old powers to recruit informants.

Since October 7, 2023, it is impossible to avoid noticing a flux of military analysts, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, and magistrates who proud themselves of having received their training in the United States and western Europe providing updates on various media platforms on how the war between the Israelis and the Palestinians in Gaza is progressing, including formulating assessments and presenting scenarios that the Palestinians could utilize to defeat the Israelis and vice versa.

This book attempts to support the idea that if the victors of WW2 (the western European monarchs and republics) do not make a detour and go back to practicing the work program that the founding fathers of the UN (the old powers) laid out in the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including returning the United Nations back to fulfilling the role initially envisioned for this organization, they would not be able to avoid the same fate that the families/dynasties that controlled the Babylonian kingdom faced.