• bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    The UN has always been a toothless exercise in decorum. They don’t hold any influence over someone who doesn’t care about manners.

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      Arguably its main functions were to convince the US and Russia not to start a nuclear holocaust and to give western nations a way to meddle in poor/developing nations affairs or politics.

      It never could stop a wealthy nation from doing anything