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[โ€“] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just imagine if the UN had teeth for enforcement, at least for overwhelming votes like this. I feel like its one of the biggest oversights of the post WWII order they tried to make.

Big countries, of course, would never allow that, but still.

[โ€“] nelly_man@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

The UN is not meant to be a world government. It's meant to be a forum that allows all countries to maintain a bare minimum of diplomatic relations. The overarching goal is to prevent nuclear war and prevent WWIII.

It's predecessor, the League of Nations, was meant to prevent WWII and had some teeth to help enforce their decisions. The result was that it collapsed quickly and did very little to prevent another global conflict.