> The UN is an empty shell Because sovereign states demanded that it would be an empty shell, and this was accepted because otherwise there would be nothing.

> The UN is an empty shell Because sovereign states demanded that it would be an empty shell, and this was accepted because otherwise there would be nothing. For example, the ICC. Nobody can be convicted by the ICC unless their country allows it. And even that is going too far for essentially all countries, even founding member states like South Africa (who explicitly went against UN treaties they signed to protect Al-Bashir and Putin)