They Blew Out the Candles… And Lit the Fuse. Our World Has Been On Fire Ever Since.
Forty years ago, the globe’s powers gathered to slap themselves on the back. The United Nations turned 40. They cut a cake while the planet smoldered. This wasn’t a celebration. It was a CON.
Look at the world on that very day, October 23, 1985. The Cold War was RED HOT. The Soviets were in Afghanistan. America funded bloody proxy wars. Apartheid strangled South Africa. Global famine flashed on the news. And in New York? Speeches. Empty promises. A photo-op for the history books while history’s worst crises were ignored.
Why does this matter NOW? Because the same playbook is still running. The UN’s birthday bash was a distraction—a shiny mask hiding the fact that NO ONE was at the wheel. The powerful nations used it as a stage to pretend they wanted peace, all while secretly fueling the wars that made them rich. Who benefited? Arms dealers. Corrupt regimes. Politicians building careers on bodies. Who stayed silent? The very organization designed to be a microphone for the voiceless became a muzzle.
The images from that day tell the real story. Leaders shaking hands, all smiles. Now compare those grins to the newspaper headlines of bloodshed printed THE SAME WEEK. The contrast isn’t ironic. It’s the pattern. They celebrate the institution that FAILS to stop them, because its failure is their permission slip.
Every “peacekeeping” failure, every ignored genocide, every silenced veto trace directly back to this founding hypocrisy. They gave us a stage show of unity while building the world of chaos we live in today.
They didn’t build a new world order forty years ago. They signed the permit for our disorder.
Author: Kayitsi.com
