The United Nations goal is technically maintaining international peace and security. If they’re always afraid to do something when a country attacks another without provocation, out of fear of escalating the situation, why does it even exist?
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1. The United Nations do not exist to wage war, but to keep peace. Sending UN troops to fight a war on one side could easily make a mockery of the whole institution. It’s not about not escalating the situation but about not taking sides.
2. The security council of the UN is what makes decisions about interventions. In this council, Russia, the US, China, France and Great Britain have a right to veto anything. So you have at least 2 global superpowers with often competing interest in there, three if you consider France a representative of the EU. Meaning it is unlikely that all 5 of these countries agree on the necessity of an intervention at any given time, and if one doesn’t, nothing happens. And yes, the members with eternal veto rights are kinda arbitrary picks based on who was a global power at the point of inception of the UN.
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