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[–] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The UN and NATO really need to do away with veto powers. Like holy shit does it make organizations useless with one bad faith actor.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

The veto is why the Security Council, and the UN in general, works. Its ultimate goal is to stop global war. And by "global war" it means wars that pulls in all the superpowers at once against each other, not all war on the globe.

The veto has made it successful because it prevents the UN from acting against the interests of any of the superpowers that can sustain a war against the rest of the UN. And because of that, the superpowers keep diplomatic channels through the UN open at all times because none of them will ever be at war with the UN itself.