U.S. withdraws from UN Human Rights Council

[VAMatt]

HylianSwordsman said:

VAMatt said:

I suggest dissolving the UN altogether, and replacing it with nothing.  The UN, in many respects, simply props up terrible governments all over the place, and lends credibility to others.  There certainly have been some good things to come out of the UN.  Possibly the most important is just getting adversarial governments in the same room with each other.  But, I see the history of the organization as one of corruption, propping up of scumbag dictators, and lending of credibility to oppressive regimes much more so than being a force for good.  It also wastes a shitload of money putting the blue helmet guys in war zones without any authorization to do anything while there.  So, its a net-negative in my book.  

As for the US leaving the HR council right now, I'm sure it is motivated by politics, rather than principle.  Nevertheless, I support the result of that stunt.  

To me, you can't argue with the unprecedented era of peace between major world powers. Yes, there's corruption and propping up of dictators (some of which we ourselves put into place, I might add) but before the UN, there were regular wars between major powers, and afterwards, only proxy wars at worst. I'll take that over WWIII. Replacing it with nothing would guarantee WWIII. There needs to be some formal diplomacy organization that creates global rules, or at least norms, that prevent WWIII. I see no other alternative to human extinction from the inevitable nukes that would launch.

I see no reason to think that the UN has prevented any major wars.  There has been near-constant war since the end of WWII.  The fact that the US and the USSR didn't wipe each other off the map has no connection to the UN that I am aware of.  The reason that didn't happen is because there was (and still is) no possible way to "win" that war.  And, there's really no money to be made in fighting it.