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> General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding and are unenforceable, but they reflect world opinion and the vote has given Cuba an annual stage to demo
by infamouscow 4y ago
> General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding and are unenforceable, but they reflect world opinion and the vote has given Cuba an annual stage to demonstrate the isolation of the U.S. in its decades-old efforts to isolate the Caribbean island nation.
In other words, the vote was pointless.
UN member nations can do whatever they want.
I'd love to be wrong, but I can't think of a single instance where a UN vote did anything meaningful, ever.
- orangepurple 4y agoThe UN has an occupational military force which shows up in your neighborhood and puts itself at risk of attack. Nation states do intervene with support for the UN troops when those forces are attacked.
- BiteCode_dev 4y agoWe already learned that when the US went to war with Irak while lying about WMD, against the vote of the UN. They did whatever they wanted, just because they wanted to, and nobody could do a thing. They could fake evidences doing so, get caught, kill thousands, spend trillions, and destroy a country with no bad consequences whatsoever. No blue helmet peace keepers was sent at any point to block the US soldiers path.
- erehweb 4y agoArguably the one authorizing the Korean War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_82 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci...
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