Arabs put to vote a UN resolution demanding an immediate Gaza cease-fire, knowing US will veto it - eviltoast
    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      It can’t last. Either the US is knocked off it’s pedestal or the UN will go the way of the League of Nations.

      • livus@kbin.social
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        10 months ago

        I think there’s a hell of a lot of bread-and-butter stuff that UN agencies do that people are just not thinking about.

        Sure the Security Council is just annoying theatre but there’s a lot of good being done by other agencies.

      • ISOmorph@feddit.de
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        10 months ago

        How do you knock the biggest military power of the world of its pedestal?

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            10 months ago

            I mean, the infrastructure has been actively falling apart for years, people can’t afford the fuel to get to work, half of the country is actively trying to sabotage the rest of it…

            My money’s on 2050, at the latest.

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          10 months ago

          You don’t, and because of that the UN is losing its relevance. It was never perfect, but it’s increasingly sidelined by major powers that will just do whatever they want. The Palestinian genocide shows us that it is unable to stop a genocide, the war in Ukraine and previously the war in Iraq show that it can’t stop powers from just invading whomever. Even as a forum it is losing relevance, with smaller groups like the G7 and BRICS, or regional blocs like the EU and ASEAN becoming the source of new international policy.