What is the UN and why do we need it?

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I don’t understand what is point of the UN, what role they have in the world?
Let’s say the security council decides something on some country, how they enforce it? Who can enforce it? And who really cares?

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The problem people have in understanding the UN is that they think it is supposed to function like a world government. It doesn’t, and it was never intended to. The UN was established after WW2 to prevent another world war between the great powers. It is a forum for discussion. It was understood in its design that it could never actually bind the great powers, and it makes no attempt to do so – they’re explicitly given vetos.

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