The security council in particular is pretty much set up for a never-ending stalemate as all superpowers have a veto and usually at least one of them always has

The security council in particular is pretty much set up for a never-ending stalemate as all superpowers have a veto and usually at least one of them always has a finger (or at the very least some vested interests) in any kind of nastiness happening around the world. And sadly, the ones where really none of them have any interests, it's not on their radar to do anything about it. I do wonder if it really had a hand in preventing world wars etc.. Somehow I doubt it as these things tend to get sorted out in direct negotiations (like back in the day with Reagan and Gorbachev, and the Cuban missile crisis - which was the trigger for a direct hotline to be set up between the US and USSR if I remember correctly). I hope one day we grow up as a species... :(