What use is the United Nations?

[Varun]

An organization with the WW2 victors being placed atop its ivory tower was always doomed to fail.

How relevant is this organization in this day and age - considering its inability to prevent conflicts in various parts of the world, as well as failures in other arenas like health (the Covid fiasco) and climate change?

The UN is increasingly out of step with the reality of geopolitics today.

 

[gani999]

People have too many expectations from organisations like the UN. One should realise that the UN is a club of all the world's nations, and any inequality in the world will be reflected there, as will any imperfection that is prevalent in the world.

Has the UN failed in places? Of course it has. But it has succeeded in others too.

Dag Hammarskjold, one of the early Secretary Generals of the UN famously said, 'The UN has not been created to take mankind to heaven but to save humanity from hell'.

What the UN needs is reform. For a start, the permanent membership of the UNSC (The five WWII winners) and the veto rights that come with it must be abolished. The members of the UNSC must all be temporary and changing every 3 years, so all countries get a chance.

UN peacekeeping forces must be given the mandate to conduct offensive military operations to ensure peace wherever they are deployed, and not just keep a token presence to reassure people.

I would also suggest that the UN headquarters be moved to a different country every five years. It's permanent presence on American soil will ensure that the US will stay in control, in some shape or form.

 

[WhenSultansBowled]

An organization with the WW2 victors being placed atop its ivory tower was always doomed to fail.

How relevant is this organization in this day and age - considering its inability to prevent conflicts in various parts of the world, as well as failures in other arenas like health (the Covid fiasco) and climate change?

The UN is increasingly out of step with the reality of geopolitics today.

They are very much aware of the reality.

It is basically an organization to bully the weak as the strong laugh at it.

 

[Varun]

People have too many expectations from organisations like the UN. One should realise that the UN is a club of all the world's nations, and any inequality in the world will be reflected there, as will any imperfection that is prevalent in the world.

Has the UN failed in places? Of course it has. But it has succeeded in others too.

Please elaborate with some examples.

 

[Manunited18]

UN is a tool for the USA and its Zionist allies to bully the weak.

 

[gani999]

Please elaborate with some examples.

1. Successful peacekeeping missions in Sierra Leone, DRC, Burundi, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Haiti, Cambodia, El Salvador and many other places
2. Eradication of smallpox and polio by WHO. The UN also supplies 45% of the world's vaccines, mainly to children.
3. Arms control through the non-proliferation treaties.
4. UNICEF helping millions of children across the world.
5.Setting up a comprehensive human rights law through the universal declaration of human rights.
6. Helping and aiding displaced people.

 

[Syed1]

Yeah its pretty useless, been 70 odd years and still it has not provided the people of Indian occupied Kashmir the right to self-determination.

 

[Stewie]

An organization with the WW2 victors being placed atop its ivory tower was always doomed to fail.

How relevant is this organization in this day and age - considering its inability to prevent conflicts in various parts of the world, as well as failures in other arenas like health (the Covid fiasco) and climate change?

The UN is increasingly out of step with the reality of geopolitics today.

A very apt question.

Its basically an organization to give the policies of a few big hitters of the world legitimacy, in a nut shell. They are not there to protect and serve the entire planets. I think the last 74 years have proven it.

 

[sweep_shot]

UN is useless. Get rid of it.

It had a role a few decades ago but it is quite irrelevant nowadays.

 

[Varun]

I would also suggest that the UN headquarters be moved to a different country every five years. It's permanent presence on American soil will ensure that the US will stay in control, in some shape or form.

America can then just leave in a huff. They never joined the League of Nations either, remember.