Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace” is framed as a peace initiative, but it centralises authority, sidelines the vulnerable and rewards coercion. Australia should reject it rather than lend it legitimacy.
Trump’s 'Peace Board' is imperialism in a new suit
For centuries, the policies of Imperialism led to the stealing of lands and subsequent control of weaker countries through military force, by economic exploitation and political domination. Across Africa, in South and North America, in India, Southeast Asia, Australia and Palestine, Indigenous peoples were stigmatised, slaughtered and treated as of little consequence.