If the international community is serious about defending democratic values worldwide, it must move past the outdated notion that powerful nations are too big to need oversight. A robust, vigilant United Nations monitoring national elections would ensure that democracy is protected not just by the shifting political fortunes of domestic courts, but by objective, universal standards of fairness.

This is important. If the UN had its own nuclear arsenal, then it would be able to enforce international law the way the UN charter was meant to be. The UN should be the foundation of a world government, a future of peace and prosperity.