Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the UN basically just a collective entity of the majority of the world’s nations and not its own body? The same issues came up with Russia’s invasion and how the UN couldn’t do anything. The UN is more of a neutral place to talk out disagreements than a police force. I agree with everything you say, but wherever I see “UN” it needs to be “United Nations”, as in the rest of the world…and how “we” are all just shrugging our shoulders and saying there’s technically nothing we can do about people dying.
In defence of the UN, the UN schools in Gaza are rare sites of hope in normal times and invaluable lifesavers these days. And I have friends in the UN who were working their ass off trying to improve the situation even before the war broke out, and who I’m currently trying to convince to get some sleep between turns. The fact that the UN cannot work as a world police (except under exceptional circumstances and sadly so far strictly theoretically) doesn’t mean it does not have an important role to play.
It’s incredibly flawed, but it’s what we got, and at least it’s something.
Yeah, definitely. It’s far better to have an admittedly weak UN that still tries to and often succeeds in being an influence for good in the world than to not have it at all. Thanks for your insights you’re able to bring into this thread.
Pretty much. Russia could veto intervention in Ukraine as they are permanent members of the Security Council, together with China, France, the UK, and the US. In practice it’s incredibly rare for these five to agree on anything in international politics enough for the UN to be anything more than a lame duck.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the UN basically just a collective entity of the majority of the world’s nations and not its own body? The same issues came up with Russia’s invasion and how the UN couldn’t do anything. The UN is more of a neutral place to talk out disagreements than a police force. I agree with everything you say, but wherever I see “UN” it needs to be “United Nations”, as in the rest of the world…and how “we” are all just shrugging our shoulders and saying there’s technically nothing we can do about people dying.
Exactly. Everyone complains that UN doesn’t act as world police, but we collectively created it so that it couldn’t be world police.
In defence of the UN, the UN schools in Gaza are rare sites of hope in normal times and invaluable lifesavers these days. And I have friends in the UN who were working their ass off trying to improve the situation even before the war broke out, and who I’m currently trying to convince to get some sleep between turns. The fact that the UN cannot work as a world police (except under exceptional circumstances and sadly so far strictly theoretically) doesn’t mean it does not have an important role to play.
It’s incredibly flawed, but it’s what we got, and at least it’s something.
Yeah, definitely. It’s far better to have an admittedly weak UN that still tries to and often succeeds in being an influence for good in the world than to not have it at all. Thanks for your insights you’re able to bring into this thread.
Pretty much. Russia could veto intervention in Ukraine as they are permanent members of the Security Council, together with China, France, the UK, and the US. In practice it’s incredibly rare for these five to agree on anything in international politics enough for the UN to be anything more than a lame duck.