Calls are growing for the UN Security Council to be reformed after the US used its veto power to block a Gaza ceasefire.

Calls are growing for the UN Security Council to be reformed after the US became the only member to use its veto power to block a Gaza ceasefire resolution, a move welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The UN chief says he will keep pushing for peace.

  • ferralcat@monyet.ccEnglish
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    11 months ago

    How does the security counsel prevent global war? They’re powerless to do anything to any of the super powers and by proxy also won’t do anything to anyone else either.

    • Metatronz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      11 months ago

      Or the wonky intertwinement is the peace mechanism? How much more bloody would the world have been without it?

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      “Global War” isn’t all war on the globe. It’s war that pulls in the whole world. Having 4 of the P5 gang up on the 5th in a military campaign authorized by the UN would very likely result in WWIII.

      The veto power prevents the UN from taking military action against a country the interest of countries that can sustain a war against the rest of the world.