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He’s not wrong.
Russia has neither the hard nor soft power to continue having a UN veto.
Unfortunately Russia is going to veto anything that would strip that power from them.
Oh no, what an insurmountable problem. Everyone knows if you break the rules of the UN, the UN rules enforcers will come from on high to stop you.
The reason Russia isn’t going to be stripped of a veto is naked realpolitik, not because the rules and procedures say you can’t do it.
Couldn’t the general assembly just acknowledge that the RF does not inherit the Soviet Union veto? Same way that they stripped Taiwan of their veto. I don’t think that would require a security council vote.
We need to get them to boycott the UN somehow so then we can pass such legislation.
Members of the UN Security Council with veto power
Countries ranked by number of nukes
Those vetos exist to avoid the countries from using nukes instead.
UN is a total waste of resources, it means nothing and it does more harm than good.
If there were no neutral forum for countries to come together and air their grievances, we would have had a nuclear war by now.
Spoken like somebody who has literally never opened a book.