The UN has always been a toothless exercise in decorum. They don’t hold any influence over someone who doesn’t care about manners.
Arguably its main functions were to convince the US and Russia not to start a nuclear holocaust and to give western nations a way to meddle in poor/developing nations affairs or politics.
It never could stop a wealthy nation from doing anything
When there are no consequences there are no rules.
Fucking exactly.
A “law” with no enforcement mechanism is just a suggestion…
They’re not wrong. It is concerning. Maybe an international body should step up?
I’m thinking of calling it the league of nations
If it’s meant to bring justice to international law breakers, might I suggest “The Justice League?”
We should’ve started it a century ago
What the fuck was the point of a United Nations if they can’t actually DO anything?
It’s peer mediation for nations. Obviously, that only works as long as people are reasonable.
It’s there to make sure that people think it’s useful for anything, keeps them from organizing something more useful themselves
They’re a preventative measure, not a punitive one.
To make sure no one else can do anything either
It was to keep America and the USSR from nuking each other. That was the point.
Technically the UN was established way before the USSR had nukes and actually even a month before the US made the Trinity test. So at least originally the purpose for the UN was different.
To avoid world war 3 & to cooperatively fix problems that can’t be fixed by individual nations.
Apart from having been able to prevent ww3 so far, the UN has also done a lot of good that without them might not have happened. Fixing the ozone layer holes, making international shipping less pollutant, famine food aid programs without too large strings attached, …
But the UN itself has no real power, they depend on the willing participation of the powerful member nations & if the powerful are on board, then those can coerce enough of the rest to participate. But now the most powerful nation is no longer a willing participant, so who can coerce them to play ball? It’s the start of a new world order and we don’t know yet what it’s going to look like. Probably shittier, but how much shittier we don’t really know yet.
I knew I should have put wwiii on my bingo card…
All those large boats full of goodies just drifting along the ocean at turtle’s pace.
Because nobody is being punished for NOT following it!
World should nuke USA for imperialistic ambitions as they did Japan
Has the UN ever once done something?
No they haven’t, which makes the Right Wing version of them, as a force for evil constantly coercing America into a liberal agenda, laughable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_peacekeeping_missions
That and starting a bunch of development programmes & agencies. Personally I like UNESCO the most, or rather I hate it the least. WFP sounds good too, though idk how effective they are.
Keen observation
America: “International Law says we get to bomb the UN.”
UN: “No it do-” boom
America: “I’m not hearing any objections, so that makes it legal”
The ICC: We should do something!
The US: r u sure
The ICC: And how can we cancel a person who isn’t even our subscriber?
Just like everything with the US, even when they were smiling, they were smiling not with, but at others.
Well, I do. Most of the time anyway.
What about that thing you did in Brazil???
