Here's the speech Biden should have given to a troubled United Nations

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In his speech before the United Nations General Assembly last week, President Biden proposed building a "more effective and more inclusive U.N." by "bringing in new voices and new perspectives."

What he should have said instead is that the U.N. has lost its way, and it will need to be seriously reimagined if it is to remain relevant.

To be sure, the creation of the U.N. system to reconstruct global order after World War II was inspired, and its specialized agencies, such as the Food and Agricultural Organization, have done important work for decades.

Today, however, the U.N. suffers from a fundamental flaw: it gives too much power to revisionist autocracies like China and Russia that want to tear down the U.S.-led global system. Beijing, Moscow and other revisionist authoritarians use their influence in the U.N. to turn the institution against its founding mission.

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The list of abuses is long.

Russia chaired a U.N. Security Council meeting on the situation in Ukraine as it was launching an invasion of that country. China continues to prevent the World Health Organization from investigating COVID-19’s origins, making a future outbreak more likely.

Russia and China also use their seats in the U.N. Security Council to weaken sanctions efforts against the