George W Ball, Esq., former Ambassador to the United Nations, in an interview with the New York Times says,

       The Cold War should no longer be the kind of obsessive concern that it is, neither side is going to attack the other deliberately … If we could internationalize by using the U.N. in conjunction with the Soviet Union, because we now no longer have to fear, in most cases, a Soviet veto, then we could begin to transform the shape of the world and might get the U.N. back to doing something useful, … Sooner or later we are going to have to face restructuring our institutions so that they are not confined merely to the nation-states.  Start first on a regional and ultimately you could move to a world basis.

       NOTE: As an attorney (Officer of the Court) Ball was ineligible to serve in two branches of government at the same time, according to Article I, Section 6 [Clause 2].

       [added 1/18/2023]