ali on Instagram: "The UN has 193 member states. The Security Council has 15 members. Five of them sit permanently: the US, Russia, China, the UK, France. Those five have veto power. One no from any of them kills any resolution. Most people know this. What most people do not know is what those five countries were doing when they designed that veto. Because in 1945, all five of them were empires. Not metaphorically. Literally. They governed territory and populations outside their own borders and extracted wealth from them. A third of the world’s population — 750 million people — lived under colonial rule when the UN was founded. [UN Decolonization: un.org/en/global-issues/decolonization] The veto was not an accident. It was insurance. These empires built a system that looked like international law but functioned as a lock on their own extraction. And the lock worked. #un #unitednations #security #law #uspolitics"
5,939 likes, 255 comments - alimcforever on March 11, 2026: "The UN has 193 member states. The Security Council has 15 members. Five of them sit permanently: the US, Russia, China, the UK, France. Those five have veto power. One no from any of them kills any resolution. Most people know this. What most people do not know is what those five countries were doing when they designed that veto. Because in 1945, all five of them were empires. Not metaphorically. Literally. They governed territory and populations outside their own borders and extracted wealth from them. A third of the world’s population — 750 million people — lived under colonial rule when the UN was founded. [UN Decolonization: un.org/en/global-issues/decolonization] The veto was not an accident. It was insurance. These empires built a system that looked like international law but functioned as a lock on their own extraction. And the lock worked. #un #unitednations #security #law #uspolitics".
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