I think the UN went from being a noble idea after WWI, to a toothless tiger (say about the 1970's onwards) and is now an expensive toothless pussy. Some of its humanitarian programmes are very good but individual nations and private charities seem to do just as good a job in getting supplies and resources to those who are victims of war, famine or natural disasters.
LOL couldn't stop WW2! An organization with a BUNCH of different countries trying to stop a war? Some will want it, some won't, the fact that they weren't able to stop it was inevitable.
i would not call the UN anti-american since they have such an influence in it.
but these last few years the UN has not done anything and i think its a waste of money. Europeans now have the European union and the Eurocorps and allied western nations have NATO and those do much better work (but have lost of room for improvment )
I think you mean after WWII. The League of Nations was formed after WWI and disappeared when it failed to stop WWII.
The problem is that they cant do anything because of politics.
Seriously get 220 of your friends together and try and agree on something to do and then when you do have some agreement run it past 20 randomly chosen friends of both sides to get their agreement (aka the security council) then just to make sure it all falls over run that result past 5 other people who have a vested interest in getting different results (aka the permanent members).
If you want to give teeth to the UN all you have to do is get rid of the 5 permanent members and make everything a majority vote in the general assembly with the security council acting as a facilitator for the result.
The up side of that is that you will have an organisation that acts on the will of the majority of nations (what could be fairer) of course that would make 5 nations very uneasy when they found they couldn't paralyse the UN with their own national politics and then blame the UN for failing to do something.
Hey Mike, the only reason the EU was formed was because each country had a different currency and it was a pain in the butt to export/import goods from country to country because you had to pay a different currency just to get into the country, so the EU just made it so that Euros became the currency. But yeah the Eurocorps. is kinda like the UN for Europe lol.
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