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United Nations lets Russia and China call the shots because it is a joke
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Posted on 02/23/2022 11:29:51 PM PST by BenLurkin

With Russia’s second invasion of Ukraine in less than a decade, several countries took to the U.N. Security Council to decry Russia’s actions.

Russia may be waging aggressive war, an international crime that resulted in death sentences for many of those involved in starting World War II, but Russia also holds an automatic veto over anything the Security Council could propose

Russia, as one of the great world powers on the winning side of WWII, is a permanent member of the Security Council with a veto-vote.... Russian President Vladimir Putin, the KGB officer-turned-thug dictator, may be assassinating private citizens on foreign soil, and the Chinese Communist Party may be attempting to eradicate a minority ethnicity and culture within its own borders, but each gets a final say on this matter.

Aside from the joke of the Security Council, the U.N. Human Rights Council is filled with despicable regimes that relish abusing human rights, including China, Russia, Cuba, and Venezuela. The U.N. high commissioner for human rights is more concerned about American police in Portland than China’s genocide against the Uyghurs.

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1 posted on 02/23/2022 11:29:51 PM PST by BenLurkin
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Trump should have booted the useless U.N. out of NYC when he was in office.

Another lost opportunity


2 posted on 02/23/2022 11:49:26 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse

Yup.

The UN is where the “foreign aid” deals are made and the bureaucrats make their millions.

Trump could have ended the UN.


3 posted on 02/24/2022 12:22:51 AM PST by datura (Eventually, the Lord and the Truth will win.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

I spent a number of years saying pretty much the same thing.

Once we boot the UN and drop out, our veto is gone. The world would not be a better place at that point.

One would have to be blind deaf and dumb to think we’re a whole lot better off at this point. Still, it might be considerably worse if China and Russia had no antagonist inside the UN.


4 posted on 02/24/2022 12:22:56 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: BenLurkin

5 posted on 02/24/2022 12:23:26 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style )
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To: LeoWindhorse
Trump should have booted the useless U.N. out of NYC when he was in office.

The building is in great disrepair so it would have made a nice "flip" too.

6 posted on 02/24/2022 12:25:15 AM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: llevrok

The UN is the wannabe “World Government”, and as such goes against nearly everything our Founders warned us about.

Not only do we need to get out of the UN, we need to demand it he disbanded and removed from our shores. Let China have it, without the US.


7 posted on 02/24/2022 12:29:51 AM PST by datura (Eventually, the Lord and the Truth will win.)
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To: BenLurkin

The Fourth Turning is supposed to be about institutions getting replaced (not always rebuilt) every 80 years or so. The UN/UNsC, the American Empire and the move toward a hegemonic Europe (EU) have all reached their shelf expiration date. Looks like a Fourth Turning to me but most of our NY/DC elites will need more wake-up calls.


8 posted on 02/24/2022 12:30:20 AM PST by No_Mas_Obama
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To: BenLurkin

Read ltr


9 posted on 02/24/2022 12:31:03 AM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: llevrok
The building is in great disrepair so it would have made a nice "flip" too.

He should have just made it the new wing of the Trump World Centre.

10 posted on 02/24/2022 12:31:04 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DoughtyOne

The UN is every bit the farce that The League of Nations was.


11 posted on 02/24/2022 12:32:20 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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UN has managed to keep the “peace” for 75 years. The League of Nations didn’t even manage to keep the peace for 20 years.


12 posted on 02/24/2022 12:45:52 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: reg45

Nukes and mutual assured destruction kept the “peace” in spite of the UN (which W. correctly called a debating society).


13 posted on 02/24/2022 12:50:37 AM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: BenLurkin

Wikipedia: Member stats of NATO
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an international alliance that consists of 30 member states from North America and Europe. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949...

Twelve countries took part in the founding of NATO: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_NATO


14 posted on 02/24/2022 1:01:05 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: BenLurkin

The joke is Russia chairs the UN Security Council


15 posted on 02/24/2022 1:18:46 AM PST by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: BenLurkin

Well, the UN is Woke, so they got that going for them.


16 posted on 02/24/2022 1:25:22 AM PST by Old Yeller (A nation of sheep, produces a government of wolves.)
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To: dfwgator

The Trump Presidential Library?


17 posted on 02/24/2022 1:39:31 AM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Like DC, the UN is a sovereign territory.


18 posted on 02/24/2022 1:46:49 AM PST by WWG1WWA (Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden )
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To: DoughtyOne
However, the UN is a big part of the world's problem. It facilitates the Deep State.

Taking down the Deep State means, in one of many actions, taking down the UN.


19 posted on 02/24/2022 2:08:11 AM PST by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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You think the poor saps who formed the League of Nations would have ever thought that a totally neutered group of corrupt bureaucrats would be the end result of their desire to end war and keep peace?

Spinning in graves, etc.


20 posted on 02/24/2022 2:10:03 AM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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