Last week, in his speech at the Sant'Egidio International Meeting for Peace, which was held in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron called for a "new international order." According to Macron, a new order is needed to maintain peace around the world, because "our order today is incomplete and unjust." The war in Ukraine, Macron alleges, necessitates a "new form of organization of Europe" and that the European community "rethink" its "relationship to Russia."

The wise King Solomon observed in Ecclesiastes 1:9 that there is nothing new under the sun. There is certainly nothing new about Macron's call for a new world order; after all, an American President, George H. Bush, .........