UN was put into place for peacekeeping efforts and yet there r 5 major countries having veto power.
I don’t understand its use, isn’t a proper voting over issues a better way to go about problems than this ?
Does this veto system actually help in peacekeeping efforts positively ?
In: Other
There are “wheels within wheels” at the UN. Most of the important decision making is done within the Security Council and the Security Council has five Permanent Members. The very simple reason those five are the ultimate leaders is that they’re the ones who won World War 2 and created the UN. The UN is nice in that it offers a forum to diplomatically address various issues before they escalate to out of control levels
Pretty much none of us are members of the Greatest Generation anymore so it seems odd to our Cold War sensibilities for it to be Russia and China sitting alongside the US and Great Britain with France managing to continue cruising along just by virtue of being a cool guy who invented Democracy and everything but that’s how it is and it would take lots and lots of lesser Member Nations to sway the (uneasy) status quo we have established.
Latest Answers