AnastasiyaDoes a country that invades other states, bombs & murders civilians in hospitals, residential areas and kidnaps children BELONG in the UN Security council?
Charlie Stross@Anastasiya You know the United Nations was originally the name given to the alliance created at the Yalta conference to fight the Axis powers in WW2? And the Security Council were the main military entities in the wartime alliance? Including Stalin's USSR.
Agreed, the modern UNSC has long since out-grown that origin. But it's harder to get Russia off the UNSC than you might think—it's established by an international treaty with over 190 signatories at this point, and runs on consensus.
@cstross Yes, neither russia nor China is an original member.
How are you going about ignoring the ongoing Russian war crimes and the fact that russia is repeatedly violating the UN charter.
How are you going about ignoring the ongoing Russian war crimes and the fact that russia is repeatedly violating the UN charter.
@Anastasiya Russia got nodded in as the successor to the USSR.
Maybe after Russia is defeated we can allocate that Soviet successor state seat to someone more appropriate ... like Ukraine?
But really, the point is that the UN is a mess by design, there's no easy way to reform it without abolishing it and creating a replacement (as happened to the old League of Nations) and realistically I don't see that happening short of the same situation that killed the LoN (a world war).
@cstross Indeed. Basically the russia's membership in the UN council is illegal (there are no actual documental proceedings after the USSR fall) and russia routinely violates the UN charter (war crimes, annexation of territories by war - all illegal since 1945).