US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has had around 60 countries worldwide written to in order to establish a so-called Peace Council. It quickly became clear that this is not only about rebuilding Gaza.

The Peace Council empowers itself to act in all matters that previously fell exclusively to the UN security council.

The Peace Council aims to replace the UN security council with its primary responsibility for international security and the maintenance of world peace.

The sole veto right belongs to the US and the eternal President Donald Trump. The veto right, especially of the permanent security council members Russia and China, is thereby overridden.

The multipolar world order — the result of the defeat of German fascism and Japanese militarism as well as the victory of the Allies and especially the Soviet Union — is institutionally shattered.

Trump’s offer to Russia and China to participate in the Peace Council is a “mafioso offer.”

Whoever accepts it disempowers themselves, gives US imperialism carte blanche. How much of this is about establishing US hegemony can also be seen in the internal structure of the Peace Council.

US President Trump has himself installed as President of the Council for life. At the same time, the Council is staffed with all sorts of shady figures — such as Tony Blair or Trump family members such as Jared Kushner — who in the past strongly advocated for Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians.

Thus, the Peace Council becomes a US war council and US colonial council. An institution that legitimises US wars and threats of violence. Anyone not appointed as a member – such as Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran – risks immediately falling into the sights of the new self-appointed guardians of world order.

The Europeans certainly have no problem with this. What unsettles the European vassals of US hegemony, however, is that they themselves – despite unconditionally supporting US economic and proxy wars – are now falling into the crosshairs of US power politics.

It seems no coincidence that Denmark was not invited to the Peace Council, in order to allow the planned US annexation of Greenland to proceed as smoothly as possible.

One needs few clairvoyant skills to predict that the establishment of the US Peace Council will at the same time bring an end to the globalisation we know and a division of the world into two blocs.

Who could blame China or Russia for founding their own “peace council” and naturally inviting the US? The fact is that Trump is replacing international law with the law of the jungle.

It is also about renewing Western colonialism. It seems downright absurd when one considers that the Europeans reproach Trump for this in the case of Greenland, yet are at the same time unwilling to truly come to terms with their own colonial history.

Anyone who engages even a little with the history of Greenland will quickly encounter Denmark’s crimes against the island’s indigenous population.

In essence, the dispute between Trump and the European vassals is a dispute over how best to legitimise the renewal of Western hegemony.

This is clearly evident in the case of Diego Garcia. Before Mauritius’s independence in 1968, the British – at the US’s request – detached the Chagos Islands and between 1965 and 1973 deported the entire indigenous population – a crime against humanity – in order to establish a large US military base in the Indian Ocean.

While Trump wants to retain this colonial robbery without restriction, the British government is pursuing an apparent modernisation where the islands are to be returned to Mauritius, but the base remains leased to the US for 99 years.

The dispute in the West over the means of colonialism should therefore not be overestimated — there is broad agreement on the ends. Only the Europeans still fail to understand that territories they themselves control must also be ceded to the US in order to renew US imperialism overall.

The US Peace Council could in future become precisely the institution in which agreement is reached on renewing the colonial and imperialist US agenda – albeit with a veto right for Trump.

In contrast, the Group of Friends of the UN Charter – which includes China and Russia – has placed the enforcement of decolonisation on its agenda, entirely in line with the UN’s original tasks.

Island groups that remain occupied by France and Great Britain and used by the US for its 900 worldwide military bases must finally be returned to Mauritius, Madagascar, and the Comoros. Colonialism must not become a project for the future.

Sevim Dagdelen was a member of the German Bundestag from 2005 to 2025 and is currently a member of the Federal Executive Board of the German party BSW (Bundnis Sahra Wagenknecht / The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance)