she hacked youMar 2

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

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@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

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@benroyce @ekis The People's Republic of China also took over their seat from their predecessor, the Republic of China, which still exists today as Taiwan. Really there just shouldn't be any permanent seats on the Security Council at all.
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@StarkRG @ekis

good point about china

but china is the natural regional power

meanwhile russia is a joke of a country that is getting to be even more of a joke every day. it's irrelevancy will only grow

there has to be though

how does a decision decided on by small countries have any significance if the regional powers don't like it?

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@benroyce @ekis All the seats on the Security Council should be elected by the general assembly. Otherwise the UN exists primarily to serve the permanent members who got their positions by being the most powerful nations at the time it was created, controlling all the less powerful nations. For the UN to do what it was ostensibly created to do, everyone has to be treated equally, there can't be permanent seats,
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@StarkRG @ekis

then the regional powers won't join in

and so nothing is enforceable

you created a debate society for small countries

if indonesia has a seat and a decision is made that makes bahrain angry, that sucks

but there is no such thing as a UN where bahrain imposes a decision on indonesia. indonesia will just laugh and ignore it

i don't *like* that. that's just unavoidable

Show threadStarkRGMar 2
@benroyce @ekis The idea of the UN mostly isn't for any one nation force other nations to do things, it's to provide a forum for nations to discuss matters and *jointly* solve problems. Because, yeah, if one nation decides to ignore the consensus decision, there's not much the rest can do. They can decide as a group to sanction the dissenter, but they'll still need to spruce and enforce those sanctions individually within their own countries.
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@StarkRG @ekis

yes

without the UN, large countries bully small countries

with the UN, small countries bully small countries, within the structure of the UN

so small countries are getting bullied no matter what

the UN doesn't solve that problem

it just makes it easier for countries to interact