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moniss

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5. The Security Council has never provided
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 04:16 PM
Nov 2024

what it is named for. The UN, controlled by it's ruling members, has a charter it doesn't live up to and they make lofty statements about conduct and purpose while at the same time they know their countries governments are working and planning against those very goals of conduct and purpose and doing so for their own benefit. The fact is the construct of the UN is so flawed that it becomes useless.

The vast majority of major military problems in the world for the last many decades have been the result of the conduct and policies of Russia, The United States, Israel, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and China. The other members of the UN would do themselves far better if they all withdrew from the UN and began their own international body of cooperation. Expulsion from the UN of the countries I listed is never going to happen even for just one of them like Iran. But members can withdraw and it has happened in the past. It should happen en masse. It would be a breath of fresh air to see the new Session of the UN try to open with only a half dozen or so representatives in attendance.

But the fact is it will never happen nor will any meaningful reform of the UN. So in perpetuity it is forever going to be a Security Council that is a Cold War standoff with the parties using their veto against each other while dragging the remaining members further along a road of lies and self dealing for the benefit of the ones with the veto.

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