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.

  • SCB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mean, same. The ability of certain blocs to railroad the UN is obscene. We should protect our veto tho

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      1 year ago

      We should protect our veto

      The countries that currently have a veto make less sense the way the world is developing.

      France and the UK have a veto, but Germany doesn’t? China has a veto but India doesn’t?

      I get that it’s based on historic disputes after the war, but it doesn’t fit the current world well.

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        1 year ago

        Because of “one nation one vote,” it is trivially easy for the more hardcore Muslim bloc or authoritarian nations to shove things through that should absolutely not be shoved through.

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          And basing it off population would essentially give China and India the power to vote themselves whatever they wanted. It’s the US legislative problem all over again and do we really want one world government in the end?