Thursday, 22 September 2022

Removing Russia From UN Non-Starter

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has done a great job of keeping his nation in the spotlight and his latest idea is to remove Russia as a permanent member of the Security Council due to its invasion of Ukraine and demanded a: 'just punishment of Russia for a crime committed against the values of the United Nations'.
The United Nations Permanent Members are Russia, UK, USA, China and France and are a remnant of the victors in WW2 and all 5 have a veto which can scrap anything the other 192 countries decide should happen so one country is able to defy the will of all the others if it is detrimental to their own interests.
That's why we have America who will hear no criticism of the genocidal action of Israel and in the recent past with Iraq and Afghanistan, if a country like the UK or US wants a war and the United Nations say no, they just ignore it anyway.
With the exception of Israel, the United States and United Kingdom have probably been the World's greatest warmongers of the past 70 years as well as the greatest arms exporters but somehow they are now being asked to uphold peace by banning Russia from holding the veto.
In the entire United Nations existence, the Russians have thrown down its veto 123 times, the US 83, UK 43, France 18 and the Chinese have wielded their veto 6 times.
Russia does need to be sanctioned, just as the US and UK should have been for their unwarranted actions but the problem seems to be that once the UN has been defied, there is no sanction against the countries attacking another one without the UN say-so so the problem isn't with the United Nations but the lack of
punishment for defying it.
China will more than likely stop any action to remove Russia but there doesn't seem to be much support for the Zelenskyy idea, mainly because the US and UK know that it wasn't that long ago that they were in the position of Putin and Russia and if history is any guide, will be again.

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