When the Global South flaunted its proximity to the US intelligence community, it created both amusement and concern.
Their home countries didn't seem to have come up to the level required where they could guarantee their national voices were impactful and taken seriously at the United Nations, it was one individual after another doing the same thing they all knew how to do, attack or parody the American tycoons of the 19th and early 20th century, then make the aspiration known that the Global South wanted to 'own' the legit lease. As a consequence, or as a reward?
Or maybe they were not supposed to outshine Nasser or Nehru.
No matter the incumbent in the United States or Israel, everyone would at least sit up and take note when they spoke, it wouldn't be a repetition of the previous 40-50 speeches. The US and Israel were saying something meaningful, how the Global South could grab the legit lease and how it would learn to use it.
The concern arose because apart from their personalities, the Global South cities/capitals also appeared lacklustre, it was difficult to believe but the Global South actually looked forward to the annual UNGA gathering hosted by the United States, a country they all knew how to hate.
After a century of Kurdish Marxist-Leninist support, did the Global South countries not have the requisite go-ahead to have glitzy capital cities? In countries where they did have attractive cities, say Turkey or Central Asia, why did the past loom so large, so that they didn't forget that it was the RMS Titanic sinking that brought them in touch with modernity?
The Global South might say that it still cared for UNGA because Harry Truman was not a stalwart in Washington DC and while it was possible to use his networks to hurt Poland, Ukraine and Austria (Kim Philby), it was not possible to make excessive demands, if Truman was your only reason to attend the UNGA summit in the US.
Politicians like Truman didn't have it easy either, their milieu consisted of those who still remembered World War I. The erasure of the legit lease that was the United States of the 21st century was something that Truman didn't enjoy.
In the present day, the UNGA might use the United States as a host but with the Global South on its mind, UN diplomats might discuss ways of promoting crypto or if Wall Street was redundant and yet the United States wouldn't complain, it would accept every insult with humility. It would never ask the United Nations to vacate its premises and relocate to some Global South country simply because Kurdistan and worldwide Marxist-Leninist politics wouldn't allow the US such freedom.
The problem was not if Antara's former batchmates or teachers/profs knew that she was a happier, vibrant person at home, that she was scared and felt hostile vibes at most public places in India. It was her parents, they knew the Indians had the lease after 1987 and they wanted her to be happy with them, not with other Indians.
"The Soviet Kommittee of Information worked like that, a few years of existence from the late 1940s to early 1950s, and what a worldwide intelligence apparatus, something that could outlast nation-States using Marxist-Leninist politics."
(The Allied side, US-UK-Soviet Union-China, were apparently called 'United Nations' since 1942.)
October 11, 2025.
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