• huginn@feddit.it
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    6 months ago

    Because there isn’t a UN without America, China and Russia.

    France and the UK could leave and the UN could exist but those 3? Not a chance.

    Each of those larger nations carries so much weight that their influence on global politics would outshine any body that tried to legislate without them.

    The UN could exist technically but it would have no teeth at all. It has few enough as is.

    • Venia Silente@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      Still, doesn’t sound like a good argument to give those nations veto power over all decisions. Like, currently the way things are reading a motion could come it to have the UN acknowledge that, say, Palestinians are still human beings, and the US could veto that - and then what?