{"id":263177,"date":"2026-03-18T14:01:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=263177"},"modified":"2026-03-18T14:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:03:31","slug":"if-only","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/if-only\/","title":{"rendered":"If only &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; there existed an international organisation that could protect the world against the scourge of war, that acted in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, that settled international disputes by peaceful means.<\/p>\n<p>Wait &#8230; there\u2019s been one around since 1945, called the UN. But its solemn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/about-us\/un-charter\/full-text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charter<\/a>, from which we nicked the verbiage above, is just fantasy. The <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/06\/politics\/trump-greenland-venezuela-colombia-miller-analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">real world under capitalism<\/a> is better described by a nasty piece of work, Stephen Miller, who seems to have a big say in US policy at present:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 20px;\">\u201ctalk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world &#8230; governed by strength &#8230; by force &#8230;by power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yep, under capitalism. might is right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-263177","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/263177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}