Posted on 02/24/2022 8:41:54 AM PST by Red Badger
On Wednesday, speaking after an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres begged Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the war he had unleashed on Ukraine, pleading:
In the name of humanity, do not allow to start in Europe what could be the worst war since the beginning of the century, with consequences not only devastating for Ukraine, not only tragic for the Russian Federation, but with an impact we cannot even foresee in relation to their consequence for the global economy in the moment when we are emerging from COVID-19.
Guterres added, “This war doesn’t make any sense.”
Guterres’ plea fell on deaf ears, as Putin relentlessly continued his assault on Ukraine into the day.
The ineffectual nature of the United Nations, which has no intrinsic military power of its own, and its incapacity to confront belligerent nations invading other nations, has been demonstrated again and again, and one critic took note, tweeting, “The United Nations died today (I personally think it was dead already but nothing left after tonight).”
The United Nations died today (I personally think it was dead already but nothing left after tonight)
— Bruno Maçães (@MacaesBruno) February 24, 2022
The Council of Foreign Relations admitted in September 2020:
During the four decades of the Cold War, the UN became a venue for US-Soviet rivalry. The fact that the Cold War did not turn hot (as great power competition had twice before in the twentieth century) was due less to what happened at the UN than to nuclear deterrence and a balance of power that compelled significant caution in US and Soviet behavior. The principal occasion when the UN intervened to maintain international peace – committing an international force to reverse North Korean aggression against South Korea – it could do so only because the Soviet Union was boycotting it.
Writing about the United Nations in National Review in 2017, Andrew McCarthy opined:
When you pretend that all states are equal, that there is no difference between the good guys and the bad guys, that is always a coup for the bad guys. And that’s what the U.N. is: a coup for the bad guys.
Think about it: We are voluntarily entered into an arrangement in which actions affecting American national security and prosperity are subject to the Security Council veto power of Vladimir Putin and the Communist Party of China – the principal patrons of the “Death to America” regime in Iran, the world’s leading sponsor of anti-American terrorism.
Article 1 of the United Nations Charter states: “The Purposes of the United Nations are: To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace.”
Article 2 adds, “The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles. … All Members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present Charter. All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered. All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.”
“NATO and the UN are useless grifters.”
So is the current U.S. government.
Yep. Throw in some States too!
Nearly every senator voted in 1945 to join the UN, ineffective then and disastrous now.
League of Nations II................................
“The UN died today.”
Good riddance.
Can we finally remove the UN from our shores then?
UN has long long been irrelevant.
Putin dismissing them proves the point succinctly.
Maybe DJT can buy the building, refurbish, and lease.
In my humble opinion, the United Nations belongs at The Hague.
UN dies? At least one positive emerging.
Exactly
Good, we can make the UN Building the new wing of Trump World Centre, maybe even use it for the Trump Presidential Library.
What’s the “United Nations”?
Anyway, whatever, RIP.
You and the NYPD traffic detail and vice squad.
The League of Nations says, “Welcome to our world!”
The UN building is probably a toxic disaster waiting to happen. So obviously it should be turned into a city college.
what could be the worst war since the beginning of the century,
***This dude doesn’t even know what century he’s in.
But he knows his butt’s been wiped.
You mean the Global Warming UN
When NATO attacked Serbia and when NATO attacked Libya we made a big point out of saying we didn’t need UN authorization. At this moment in Syria we are in the middle of attacking the government of Syria which is in good standing with the UN. We again say NATO authorizing was good enough. In all three cases that was done so Russia could not veto it in the security council. So now, here we are... Russia doesn’t bother with UN authorization either and gets it from their alliance.
“If you move against Ukraine while I’m president,” Trump is said to have told the Russian leader, “I will hit Moscow.”
The UN Security Council will issue a sharply worded denunciation followed by the immediate deployment of a peacekeeping force. The current president of the Council is...uh...Russia.
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