alt Hacker NewsThe Russia-Ukraine war has all signs to lead the world into world war 3 if its not stopped. All these sabotage acts will continue across the globe to drag more countries into the mix. What is the UN Security council doing?. Nobody hears their efforts to stop anything
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Russia has a permanent seat and an absolute veto on all UN Security Council actions.
Russia lashing out beyond Ukraine is a sign of desperation, not of strength. They've destroyed their economy and have little chance of making more progress in Ukraine, and they know it. The predictions of escalation into WW3 don't seem credible to me.
> What is the UN Security council doing?
Echoing what everyone else is saying:
The UN Security council has no effective power over the five permanent members (or those countries a permanent member wishes to protect). Of course it is doing nothing against Russia, USA, China, UK or France; it can't.
Or maybe it’s the Iranians this time? Whoever it is, getting good at cybersecurity seems more useful than going to war over it.
> What is the UN Security council doing?
What do you expect UN Security Council to do here, really? Two of the permanent members are waging offensive wars without cause, and Russia keeps vetoing anything about Ukraine, and the US keeps vetoing anything about Gaza/Israel and Iran. What exactly could they realistically do, in your opinion?
The only superpower of the Security Council is sending nastygrams, and they can't be very nasty anyway, and any of the 5 members can veto it anyway, and any other nuclear power can play an UNO card and ignore the nastygram anyway.
The UN is a discussion forum, imagine "Reddit for countries". It's useful to coordinate some global actions like vaccines and stop small fights, but anyone with nukes can ignore it.
What can the UN do if countries like Russia, China and the USA can simply ignore them?
>The Russia-Ukraine war has all signs to lead the world into world war 3 if its not stopped.
Russia can withdraw today and all the fighting would stop immediately.
>All these sabotage acts will continue across the globe to drag more countries into the mix.
Russia can choose to stop these sabotage acts immediately.
>What is the UN Security council doing?. Nobody hears their efforts to stop anything
Russia doesn't need anyone's permission to stop the war immediately.
(But also, Russia is a founder and permanent member of the UNSC, so...)