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dsmk@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Even if you remove the veto power, what exactly would you expect to happen?

Bush wasn’t going to be arrested and put under an international court for the same reason Putin isn’t going to be arrested for invading Ukraine. You can tell them “hand him over”, they say “make me”, and the only way to enforce the decision involves war, which no one wants to have.

The veto power is a problem, but it wouldn’t help much here.

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deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The main problem is thinking the UN is supposed to be like this higher authority. That isn’t and never was the intention, because it’s impossible for it to be.

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- kbotc@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yep. The UN isn’t the world government. It’s a place for the super powers to air their grievances for the rest of the world to see.
  
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