Do you think the UN is a useful organization?

It seems to me like it vilifies US enemies and does almost nothing when it comes to anything else.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/co-is

This is on their humans rights page and the only country mentioned here aside from the usual list is Israel and a few others. If I were to read some of the stuff written here about a country like DPRK how likely is it to be true?

What do communists think of the UN? The creation of the UN was supported by the USSR so there must have been something beneficial to it? or did the old UN disappear alongside the USSR?

It would be very nice to get your opinions on this, thank you.

  • Munrock ☭
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    2 years ago

    The security council, by not including all member states, pretty much means the euroamerikkkan faction (US, UK, and France, which really just means the US) can do whatever it wants militarily, since it outvotes the other 2 members (Russia and China). Those 3 countries have a tiny minority of the world’s people, yet get to start as many wars as they want with impunity.

    I don’t think this is quite accurate: each of the permanent members has veto power, which means the UNSC can’t pass any resolution unless all 5 allow it (it’s also a huge power disparity compared to the non-permanent members that makes the latter little more than tokens).

    So the reason the UNSC can’t ensure international peace and security is because any attempt by the Security Council to hold the US to account for its warmongering gets vetoed… by the US. Similar result, but there’s an important difference: Russia and China’s veto power mean that the US can’t manipulate the UNSC into justifying their murderous behaviour either. More importantly the UNSC has to approve any changes to the UN Charter, so Russia and China’s vetoes prevent the West from turning the entire UN into another tool of Western Hegemony like the IMF and World Bank.

    As it is, the UNSC veto mechanisms just leave the UN as toothless diplomatic infrastructure, which is probably for the best considering that a more flexible UN would have more than likely been reshaped in the US’s favour during the unipolar post-cold-war.