Coronakrisen har vist, at den globale landsby med åbne grænser har spillet fallit. I krisetider er EU, FN og andre overstatslige organisationer værdiløse og irrelevante. Kun nationalstaten er i stand ti at beskytte sine borgere, skriver den kendte kommentator, Caroline Glick:
“The coronavirus exposed a truth that global village fans have spent the past generation denying: Borders are important.
From 1997 until the coronavirus, Europe’s internal national borders were all open. Over the past few weeks, 15 EU member states have shut their doors and thrown away the key. Germany – birthplace of the vision of the European common market and nation – initially banned the export of protective medical equipment to its European “brethren.”
When the Italians begged for help, no EU member state sent in medical teams to save their fellow Europeans.
If just last month, the heads of the European Commission had the last word in all discussions among EU member states, today no one cares what they have to say. As Professor Thomas Jaeger from the University of Cologne told the Los Angeles Times, “We’re seeing an enormous delegitimation of the authority of the EU government in this crisis. The longer the crisis lasts, the more nationalism will return.”
In many ways, regardless of how long it lasts, the pandemic has already taken a permanent toll on the EU. EU members have taken one another’s measure and realized that when push comes to shove, they have only their own peoples and governments to rely on. The Italians and Spaniards aren’t likely to care what the feckless bureaucrats in Brussels, or the selfish Germans have to say about their national policies after this is over.
The same goes for the UN and other major international governing institutions.
The WHO has played an unhelpful, indeed destructive role in this crisis. As many have shown, the WHO was a full partner in China’s dissimulation efforts.
The WHO waited until January 21, after the first coronavirus patient was diagnosed in the U.S., to admit that it is transferred between people despite the fact that WHO officials knew that humans infected one another in early January.
This week an Oxford-based research group announced it will no longer base its coronavirus assessments on WHO data, which it considers not credible.
This week Walter Russell Mead noted in the Wall Street Journal that international organizations like the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Word Trade Organization are playing no significant role in the global fight against the coronavirus.
National leaders and agencies, who are directly responsible for protecting their people, are calling the shots irrespective of WHO rules and IMF spending guidelines.
The global village is collapsing under the weight of the pandemic”.