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It has not been "utterly and completely" locked up for years. Each member has been acting in its own interests, but even in times of poor international relation

by ethbr0 4y ago

It has not been "utterly and completely" locked up for years. Each member has been acting in its own interests, but even in times of poor international relationships, there is sometimes agreement by all on a particular matter. https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/volumes-resolutions https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/volumes-resolutio...

mschuster91 4y ago
The key thing is, the UNSC was established to prevent nuclear war between the super powers. While it has been successful on that front, it has utterly, utterly failed however in preventing a repeat of what happened between 1933-1945 in Germany, which was the reason for why the UN was founded: - China is genociding off Tibetans and Uyghurs for many years and no one seems to be willing to put a stop on that. Not to mention Chinese fishing vessels illegally fishing as far as Africa or continuous Chinese imperialist aggression against its neighbor states. - Russia... well, the current invasion in Ukraine speaks for itself, but there has been more. Alone the land grab of the Krim 2014 should have been more than enough to warrant intervention. - Syria, where Assad (with a lot of assistance from Russia and its Wagner mercenaries) has liberally broken every red line the Western nations set. Barrel bombs against civilians, genocide, nerve gas, torture, and that's just the rough list. - the collapse of Libya and its descent into civil war and chaos - a boatload of other conflicts turning into ethnic cleansings and genocide across Africa - a lot of nations in South America falling under the effective control of drug cartels About the only horror stopped by the UNSC was the self-proclaimed Islamic State, and that was only because both Russia and China didn't want anything to fuel their local Islamist-extremist insurgent groups.
- trasz 4y ago
  Funny how you’re bringing China, while completely ignoring the worlds most aggressive country: the US. You bring up the “genocide”, while again ignoring much worse situation in American prisons - two million victims, all kinds of systemic human rights violations and abuse, documented forced labor on mass scale. But sure, China bad.
- erklik 4y ago
  I love how none of this mentions an illegal war based on lies. Feel like things are slightly biased.
  - mschuster91 4y ago
    I shed no tear for dictatorships.

by ethbr0 4y ago

mschuster91 4y ago

The key thing is, the UNSC was established to prevent nuclear war between the super powers. While it has been successful on that front, it has utterly, utterly failed however in preventing a repeat of what happened between 1933-1945 in Germany, which was the reason for why the UN was founded: - China is genociding off Tibetans and Uyghurs for many years and no one seems to be willing to put a stop on that. Not to mention Chinese fishing vessels illegally fishing as far as Africa or continuous Chinese imperialist aggression against its neighbor states. - Russia... well, the current invasion in Ukraine speaks for itself, but there has been more. Alone the land grab of the Krim 2014 should have been more than enough to warrant intervention. - Syria, where Assad (with a lot of assistance from Russia and its Wagner mercenaries) has liberally broken every red line the Western nations set. Barrel bombs against civilians, genocide, nerve gas, torture, and that's just the rough list. - the collapse of Libya and its descent into civil war and chaos - a boatload of other conflicts turning into ethnic cleansings and genocide across Africa - a lot of nations in South America falling under the effective control of drug cartels About the only horror stopped by the UNSC was the self-proclaimed Islamic State, and that was only because both Russia and China didn't want anything to fuel their local Islamist-extremist insurgent groups.

trasz 4y ago
Funny how you’re bringing China, while completely ignoring the worlds most aggressive country: the US. You bring up the “genocide”, while again ignoring much worse situation in American prisons - two million victims, all kinds of systemic human rights violations and abuse, documented forced labor on mass scale. But sure, China bad.
erklik 4y ago
I love how none of this mentions an illegal war based on lies. Feel like things are slightly biased.
- mschuster91 4y ago
  I shed no tear for dictatorships.