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Soviet Union had a permanent veto right by statute. Russia only has it because people felt that Russia was the obvious successor despite leaving the Soviet Unio
by MagnumOpus 5y ago
Soviet Union had a permanent veto right by statute. Russia only has it because people felt that Russia was the obvious successor despite leaving the Soviet Union before it was dissolved.
If enough important countries agree that Russia has no veto, then they can rewrite convention...
- ghostwriter 5y agoWhich countries are the most important? What makes them important?
- selectodude 5y agoThey have the largest militaries and nobody can really tell them what to do. Simple as that. See: US invasion of Iraq, Russian invasion of Georgia and Ukraine.
- hutzlibu 5y agoNukes and the power to use them worldwide.
- AniseAbyss 5y agoNukes. The unspoken requirement.
- tut-urut-utut 5y agoWell, in that case UN would just cease to exist, for good or for bad. We really don't need yet another international organisation that only pretends that the international law exists and apply it selective only to weak countries, leaving USA, Russia, China & other to be above the law. Selective law is worse than no law at all, and selective justice is worse than no justice at all.