eli5..Why is it that the UN security council has 5 permanent members who can veto a resolution and what criteria did they use to choose those countries?

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eli5..Why is it that the UN security council has 5 permanent members who can veto a resolution and what criteria did they use to choose those countries?

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might makes right was the criteria. The 5 permanent members were either nuclear powers or the largest colonial powers at the time of the creation of the UN