kernals12
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Let us imagine somehow Russia does not go communist and instead becomes a democracy, either under a constitutional monarch, a scenario I'm working on myself, or as a Republic. With no communism, there is no Cold War. Now IOTL in the period between the end of world war 2 and the beginning of the Korean war, there was much hope that the new UN would become a world government. This was not some fringe fantasy by some utopians, it was taken very seriously. In 1948, Harry Truman said that "When Kansas and Colorado fall out over the waters in the Arkansas River, they don't go to war over it; they go to the Supreme Court of the United States, and the matter is settled in a just and honorable way. There is not a difficulty in the whole world that cannot be settled in exactly the same way in a world court". But of course, the Soviet Union's agression dashed all hopes for this. So if there is no cold war, would the UN become more powerful?