Australia "start a movement". That has to be a joke.

My sympathies to Peter Bowden.

You missed the WWII as example. One can only imagine the world we were to inherit had Neville Chamberlain continued with his appeasement policies; wiser heads prevailed thankfully.

Don’t know what drives the hypocrisy of the band of leftists to which Bowden hitches his cart to, but their combined fetish for appeasement and camping out with the enemy, has driven the world closer to all out war than would confronting the evils in the world, which can only be defeated with war, as history proves.

The United Nations with a strong Army?

Spare me!

I always wondered if WW2 would have happened if the Allies didn't stick their beaks into Europe's affairs !

Indyvidual- WWII was a poker game and some cleared the table. Mistakes were made. And you're right, key decisions by particular people were the fulcrum around which the events turned. I have to ask, who was the person or group that replaced Chamberlain with Churchill. It may not be obvious

Peter has done a reasonable job of documenting some of the UN’s many failings as a peacekeeper in recent years.

But his diagnosis of the causes seems to me incomplete and naïve. Yes, the veto rights of the major powers have made it harder for the Security Council to act, but do we seriously think that Putin would have been deterred from invading Ukraine by a Security Council resolution? Or that countries with no stake in the conflict would, or should, send soldiers to die in defence of Ukrainians (or Sudanese, or the Rohingya?). Peter’s solution to the problems of the many documented crimes committed by UN personnel seems to be sending more people from different countries. That’s going to do nothing to address the underlying causes of these barbarities. And the idea that APEC and ASEAN will join forces with Five Eyes and ANZUS at Australia's behest in pursuit of a shared vision of global harmony is laughable.

The last thing we should be doing is “strengthening” UN peacekeeping, or anything else the UN does, until it cleans up its act. UN interference makes things worse at least as often as it makes them better. Its involvement in the Palestine-Israel situation has been overwhelmingly counterproductive for decades, and its recent antics have shredded what little credibility it had left as an independent and impartial organisation pursuing peace in accordance with its charter obligations.

Canem Malem
Chamberlain lost the Prime Ministership because his leadership in the first few months of the war was so incompetent that neither the opposition nor his own party would support him to lead a government of national unity, which even he accepted was necessary to pursue to war effectively. He was replaced by Churchill in May 1940 – thank God!