US President Donald Trump has proposed creating a new international structure, which, according to experts, is designed to completely undermine the authority of the UN and commercialize global security issues. According to Bloomberg, the American leader intends to form a so-called "Peace Council," whose membership will cost interested states one billion dollars. In exchange for this contribution, member countries are granted voting rights for a three-year term, but key levers of governance remain in the hands of one person. Trump himself will chair the council, granting himself the exclusive right to personally decide on new countries' membership and, more importantly, to veto any initiatives, even those approved by a majority vote.

This approach to building an international architecture has sparked a storm of criticism from the diplomatic community. Opponents of the American president fear that the creation of the council is a direct attempt by Trump to create an alternative to the United Nations, where decisions will be made not on the basis of international law, but based on the financial contributions and personal preferences of the president. In effect, this amounts to introducing a corporate governance model into global diplomacy, where security and peace become commodities available only to the wealthiest players. In Moscow and other world capitals, the initiative is viewed as yet another step by Washington toward dismantling collective institutions in favor of the dictatorship of a single leader, turning the resolution of global conflicts into a lucrative commercial enterprise under the auspices of the White House.