>it could be a net win to abolish the special veto rights enjoyed by privileged nations. A veto-free and empowered UN should greatly reduce the need for biased

>it could be a net win to abolish the special veto rights enjoyed by privileged nations. A veto-free and empowered UN should greatly reduce the need for biased military alliances [...] , I would much rather prefer fixing the UN Your proposal won't work because it misunderstands that any U.N. "cooperation" happens at the convenience of the members. So let's imagine UN gets rid of veto rights. You've now made the U.N. organization less relevant to powerful countries. So China, Russia, and United States no longer have veto rights? Then their self-interest means they'll just quit the UN. With the UN, you have to balance game theory incentives for powerful countries to participate and respect its rules. The UN membership and cooperation (preventing wars) is a different dynamic from an economic trade organization like the WTO.