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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres seen on Oct. 30, 2026. AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura

It’s a sign of progress that all the leading candidates to succeed UN Secretary- General António Guterres are talking up the need for deep reform, but also telling that all of them come from the warm, careerist global-diplomacy blob — and so unlikely to actually fight hard enough to move the United Nations out of its suicidal spiral.

The permanent UN bureaucracy is more global parasite than world servant, glibly offering comforting blather to Western chattering classes while its top figures line their own pockets; deep reform is vital if the United Nations is to survive.

UN precedent is to make it look like change by cycling the top job from one region to another; it’s now Latin America’s “turn,” with the establishment dutifully coughing up Costa Rica’s Rebeca Grynspan and Chile’s Rafael Grossi, each with an oh-so-“worthy” résumé of service internationally and at…