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But did the UN ever stop a World War from breaking out? Practically, even had the UN been built instead of the League, World War 2 probably would have still ha
by nixos 10y ago
But did the UN ever stop a World War from breaking out?
Practically, even had the UN been built instead of the League, World War 2 probably would have still happened (Italy was on the Detente side in World War 1 and would have vetoed any anti-Germany resolution).
I think it's just that:
1. A weakened Europe has nothing left to fight over, and any war between two European countries would have resulted in the Soviet Union sweeping through, swallowing them all up
2. Even the "winning" side would be devastated due to Nuclear weapons.
3. Land has much less importance in a service/technology economy. Look at Singapore, for example.
- jcranmer 10y agoThe Marshall Plan, the ECC (predecessor to the EU), NATO, and the Warsaw Pact were designed in large part to bind the European countries into alliances to make war between them unthinkable. This did result in the Cold War, where both NATO and the Warsaw Pact lived in fear that the other side was ready to invade across the Iron Curtain any second, but MAD probably played a big part in restraining tensions between the two sides in war. The other thing that happened after WWII, which probably has a bigger impact on the lack of war, was that, rather than deciding which countries gets which land by plebiscites, the people who lived on the wrong side of the borders were simply deported en masse. Deportation of the Poles from Lwów, the Germans from Stettin, or the Finns from Karelia did a lot to dampen irredentist claims to those lands.
- yk 10y agoWhat about the Cuban missile crises, Kennedy did emphasize the UN security council framework as means to verify withdraw of Soviet missiles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis#Crisis_ends https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis#Crisis_en...