You have to decide if you believe there should be international law or not

The Nuremberg trials laid out a very simple idea: the supreme international crime is launching a war of aggression

The UN security council must be rebuilt from the ground up

UN must be wrestled from US control, it must not be allowed to use it as just another weapon, and we must work towards an actual system of international law, one where we are actually equal. the other option is global war

@ekis

the UN does need to be rebuilt regardless of any other factors

the security council for example:

france and uk both having seats is a colonial era hangover. there should be one EU seat

russia inherited theirs from the USSR, this wasn't even legal. russia simply should not have a seat

india should have one

brazil should have one

nigeria or south africa should have one

australia or indonesia should have one

egypt or saudi arabia should have one

china and usa as usual

@benroyce @ekis get rid of the veto. Australia should cede to Indonesia.

@ArchaeoIain @ekis

the problem with getting rid of the veto is that now you're envisioning a UN that *creates* conflict instead of resolving it

if a regional power strenuously objects to a decision and doesn't get a veto, they won't follow it

nevermind you won't get buy in from the regional powers to make such a new UN at all

as for indonesia vs australia, i think we can solve that problem by giving the ASEAN + oceania veto seat to palau 😅