Mr Khan said:
Kasz216 said:
Mr Khan said:
osamanobama said:
wow, recognizing largely terrorist groups now, are we UN?
if we didnt need any more proof that the UN is a giant socialist agency hell bent on destroying anything and everything the democracy and capitalism stands for, (basically the antithesis of what the US was founded on).
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Please. The UN exists in part only to legitimize American global policy, as well as those of the other victorious Allied powers of the second world war (hence the security council). The organization would have to be fundamentally reformed before it could ever hope to take a stance against neo-Imperialist abuses, as it is the security council keeps it paralyzed from being able to enact positive reform in anything but the most common-sense cases (like food aid to Somalia), and the quick breach of consensus amongst the old Allied Powers means that the Security Council itself is fundamentally paralyzed unless certain members abstain (as in the Korean War)
All these Americans who wail about the UN as some sort of socialist bogey-man that somehow poses some sort of insidious threat make me laugh
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Well actually, if you follow UN politics closely enough... which I mean you should based on your Major....
you should know that's EXACTLY what the UN General assembly and in general outside councils are, except the UN security council.
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Yes, but it was designed such that meaningful action could not occur without the unanimous consent of the UN Security Council 5 (unless the Soviet Union abstains), so ultimately it sits as the ultimate status quo power
The general will of the post-colonial majority of countries leans to the left, but they ultimately have no say in the matter except in small gestures like this UNESCO thing
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Though I wouldn't say that was nessisairly a bad thing. How security council permancy was decided was, but really, if it wasn't for it, the small countries would just gang up on larger more successful countries, leading to said countries breaking from the UN and the whole thing falling apart anyway.
