United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has been refreshing by the standards of the UN in occasionally saying forthright things. It’s a low bar but we are talking about a position usually occupied by corrupt third world bureaucrats looking to parlay their office into bribes for enabling sanctions violations, but when Guterres says these things, it’s just a reminder that he and the UN are wasting everyone’s time.

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said he has “no power at all,” ahead of the U.N.’s General Assembly yearly meeting.

When asked in an interview with CNN about the executive power he holds in the meeting, Guterres said, “No power at all.”

“The secretary of the United Nations has no power and there’s no money,” Guterres continued. “What we have is a voice and that voice can be loud and I have the obligation to make it be loud.”

The UN might have once aspired to be a world government, but now it’s just an umbrella group of NGOs that is international in the sense that they bribe foreign countries to join whatever agenda is on the table. A lot of bad things, from climate plans to bug eating, go out under the UN label, but it’s all just an extension and interweaving of everything from the Ford Foundation to the Soros network to European groups you’ve never heard of because they don’t have much of a presence here. This is what some people call globalism and others call the Left: an international conclave of nonprofit groups and governments seeking to ‘transform’ the world according to the dictates of its ideology.

What’s the role of the UN Secretary General in this arrangement? Mainly, he’s the guy out front. Nobody cares about his voice. And if he had any integrity, he’d step down. But you can’t have any integrity and work for the United Nations. The UN has a lot of money, it all goes to the usual places, and the power that Guterres wields is the ability to keep the scam going.