A valid point is however made: The absolute veto power (in the security council) of countries like Russia, US and China makes this UN body quite pointless if th

A valid point is however made: The absolute veto power (in the security council) of countries like Russia, US and China makes this UN body quite pointless if the troublemaker is one of these countries. This is actually the point you also made: > …or overriding their vote would defeat the purpose as this would trigger several of them to leave the organization… Their veto _is overriding the vote of others_. And by this principle of might over right, the very purpose you point out in your comment is actually undermined by the veto-countries. > My impression is that the UN is a place where all nations come together to negotiate and communicate This makes the current arrangement of the UN quite useless to have any meaningful effect on world politics and to fulfil its purpose of saving humanity from its own destruction.