Posted on 02/24/2022 3:55:39 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – It was arguably the ultimate illustration of UN powerlessness: an emergency Security Council meeting designed to avoid war rendered redundant by Russia's invasion of Ukraine just minutes after the late-night session began.
As UN chief Antonio Guterres and member state after member state on the 15-country council urged Vladimir Putin to step back from the brink, the Russian leader was already sending his troops across the border.
The ambassadors of the United States, Britain, France and others reading pre-prepared speeches calling for Putin to pursue diplomacy seemed unaware of what journalists watching the proceedings already knew: Russia's president was on state television announcing that his military operation had begun.
As news filtered through to the chamber at the UN's headquarters in New York, the mood turned to one of anger, despair and hopelessness.
Adding an air of surrealism was the identity of the country chairing the meeting: Russia, in its role as temporary president of the council.
"I call on every one of you to do everything possible to stop the war," pleaded an emotional Ukrainian ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya.
But as with the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States and Britain, the United Nations again proved incapable of preventing conflict.
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POTUS48 Trump will withdraw and form an Alliance of Free Nations.
The Global Warming UN ,LOL
It is well past time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.
China is watching ....Taiwan is as good as theirs. It’s a Done deal! Putin is showing China the toothless Brandon!
Funny. But not funny.
UN’s impotence?????????
How about the USA’s impotence with that idiot president?
Looks like we will have to take on China, Russia, Venezuela, and Korea (Canada could be in the mix also), at the same time.
If we are going to go let’s go out with a really big bang.
16 UN resolutions to Saddam Hussein that he consistently ignored was more than enough proof of that organization’s incompetence and uselessness.
I expect the UN is working just as intended…the WEF is posed to take over
SAD, but correct.
Taiwan as a free China is over and all of the "promises" made by the USA are pure bullshit.
When we let the chinks flood our country with both chi-com 19 and fentanyl and do nothing, they knew we were over the hill.
The history of man has proven that we cannot keep any given form of government intact forever, ours will not make 250 years.
Like the cdc the un is a cesspool of criminals
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