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and as for listening to the UN? because it is, if not MORE defunct than the league of nations, it is absolutely punchless and worthless
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who told you that? did they also tell you WHY?
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look at the glorious job U.N. peace keeping has done in Africa or whatnot, or even the palestinian territories
hello rwanda
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look at the numbers of people who are actually doing those African peacekeeping jobs (hint: very few), and where they come from (hint: not the US). now look at the number of US soldiers in Iraq. now compare. now why do you think there are so many US soldiers in Iraq - violating the UN charter - and nobody in Central Africa to prevent all that genocide?
regarding Palestina its even easier. look at who the major military power there is, and who provides it with weapons and aid. do you think any independent peacekeeping mission against those has any chance?
it's really sad that Western media popularize this idiotic image of the UN being a "powerless organization unable to do anything". what they forget to mention is WHY that is the case. the UN is in fact pretty much in agreement if you subtract the US+Israel. but those two, especially the US of course which as a SC member has veto power - they sabotage nearly everything the UN tries to do. just look at the voting records.