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.
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.