“The UN wasn’t founded to take us to Heaven, but to save us from Hell”
The UN is a place to meet, discuss differences and work out solutions. That’s it. Without it, the most trivial of conflicts can easily spin out of control. As world history has shown, and 20th century history most of all.
Not that OP has given that much thought, yet here we are.
Ah, yes, whatever would we do if nobody was stopping international conflicts from getting out of control? If the UN werent there to stop them, we might have the most-heavily-armed nation in the history of humanity actively funding genocide by a client state (with the actual diplomats saying their goal was to start literal Armageddon), kidnapping heads of state, assassinating heads of state, and suborning the second-most-nuke-filled country’s annexation of another country by lifting embargoes! Man, could you imagine if the headquarters of the United Nations were in THAT country, and everybody just… Did nothing? Man, what a crazy world we would live in.
It sure is a good thing that that same country doesn’t also refuse to sign any of the treaties meant to “save us from hell”, like the one saying “we won’t use land mines”, or the one saying “genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes are bad, and we should send people who do them to be punished”, or, oh yeah, all those treaties that are meant to actually make it so we don’t boil ourselves alive on a gods-forsaken world? Man, that would be wild.
Don’t get me wrong: many UN organizations do really good work. Look at the WHO! Man, it’s a good thing that that same country understands the important work of preventing and reducing the impact of the next Pandemic! What an awful world we would live in if they, say, decided to stop funding the WHO!
“The UN wasn’t founded to take us to Heaven, but to save us from Hell”
The UN is a place to meet, discuss differences and work out solutions. That’s it. Without it, the most trivial of conflicts can easily spin out of control. As world history has shown, and 20th century history most of all.
Not that OP has given that much thought, yet here we are.
Ah, yes, whatever would we do if nobody was stopping international conflicts from getting out of control? If the UN werent there to stop them, we might have the most-heavily-armed nation in the history of humanity actively funding genocide by a client state (with the actual diplomats saying their goal was to start literal Armageddon), kidnapping heads of state, assassinating heads of state, and suborning the second-most-nuke-filled country’s annexation of another country by lifting embargoes! Man, could you imagine if the headquarters of the United Nations were in THAT country, and everybody just… Did nothing? Man, what a crazy world we would live in.
It sure is a good thing that that same country doesn’t also refuse to sign any of the treaties meant to “save us from hell”, like the one saying “we won’t use land mines”, or the one saying “genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes are bad, and we should send people who do them to be punished”, or, oh yeah, all those treaties that are meant to actually make it so we don’t boil ourselves alive on a gods-forsaken world? Man, that would be wild.
Don’t get me wrong: many UN organizations do really good work. Look at the WHO! Man, it’s a good thing that that same country understands the important work of preventing and reducing the impact of the next Pandemic! What an awful world we would live in if they, say, decided to stop funding the WHO!