• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        Not what I said.

        It’s a nail in the UN’s coffin because it destroys its legitimacy as an institution. The UN isn’t really an international body it’s just a US puppet and unable to do anything the US opposes.

        No nation can have veto power, it destroys the whole system. So, like the League of Nations, it is going to fail and be replaced.

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          2 months ago

          OHH BRUHH. Sorry, was reading while walking.

          Eh yeah, the UN’s basically a country group chat. Nothing more, nothing less. The security council are the 5 group admins. Countries just come up and say, “we need to make the world a better place, guys!”. Everyone agrees, but doesn’t do shit

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            2 months ago

            The UN actually does have the power to do stuff when everyone agrees, but the problem is the veto nations keep the UN from ever exercising power. It’s a busted system and it’s going to collapse.

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              I don’t know about the collapse part (we’ve seen much worse shit happen throughout its history). The main purpose of the UN effectively is to protect the former allied powers from a power that is against them all. Oh, and also to prevent genocides where none of the allied powers can profit off of. And also as a group chat.

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                What do you think the League of Nations was? The problem the UN faces now is legitimacy - the world has to treat the UN like it’s important and not just an arm of a few powerful countries. International law ceases to have meaning if the UN is revealed as a group chat.

                Without that legitimacy we’re going to see a breakdown of the post-WW2 era of limited conflict and enter another world war.

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                  2 months ago

                  Wasn’t one of the biggest reasons for the League of Nations failing, the US not joining? A collapse of the UN would mean member states leaving. How would leaving be in the interest of any member state?