{"id":427027,"date":"2022-04-05T20:58:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T17:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-united-nations-is-useless\/"},"modified":"2022-04-05T20:58:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T17:58:04","slug":"the-united-nations-is-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-united-nations-is-useless\/","title":{"rendered":"#The United Nations is useless"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2da9f474135\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2da9f474135\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-united-nations-is-useless\/#%E2%80%9CThe_United_Nations_is_useless%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The United Nations is useless&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_United_Nations_is_useless%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The United Nations is useless&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave voice to a terrible truth in his UN speech Tuesday: The United Nations is an utter failure. <\/p>\n<p>If the organization won\u2019t actually work to end Russia\u2019s Ukraine war, he said, it should dissolve itself. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you ready to close?\u201d he asked the assembled dignitaries, after pointing out that the brutal war violates the UN Charter\u2019s first article.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s right to ask. Long fetishized by progressives around the globe as the last bulwark of civilization against unending war, the United Nations has proven singularly inept at actually preventing violence and isolating dangerous regimes.\u00a0In fact, it often empowers them.<\/p>\n<p>As Zelensky put it: \u201cWhere is the security that the Security Council is supposed to guarantee?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s presence as a permanent member at the Security Council\u2019s table \u2014 especially now, in the face of the sickening images of its war crimes in Bucha \u2014 makes a mockery both of the UN as an organization and the principles it claims to stand for. Zelensky correctly characterized Russia\u2019s behavior as \u201cno different\u201d from that of ISIS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The same might be said of China\u2019s permanent membership. Beijing has been waging a brutal internal war against the Uyghurs for years, while facing no real repercussions from a global body ostensibly dedicated to securing all human rights, everywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/zelensky-un-speech-03.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Photos from the war in Ukraine are shown on a screen as President Volodymyr Zelensky, of Ukraine, addresses a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York City on April 5.\" class=\"wp-image-21787509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/zelensky-un-speech-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/zelensky-un-speech-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/zelensky-un-speech-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Photos from the war in Ukraine are shown on a screen as President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York City on April 5.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Timothy A. Clary\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/zelensky-un-speech-01.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Photos depicting dead bodies in Ukraine are shown on a screen.\" class=\"wp-image-21787528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/zelensky-un-speech-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/zelensky-un-speech-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/zelensky-un-speech-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pointed out that the brutal war violates the UN Charter\u2019s first article.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Timothy A. Clary\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Liberals in the US have rightly taken up Ukraine as a cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre. But they\u2019ve made no corresponding alignment in conventional wisdom around the toothless, autocrat-coddling institutions allegedly responsible for maintaining the postwar order.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The most <em>Washington<\/em> seems willing to do in Turtle Bay is <em>try<\/em> to call a vote suspending Russia from the UN\u2019s Human Rights Council <em>\u2014 <\/em>a committee that is itself an utter farce, packed with member nations that themselves violate rights left and right. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This lame bit of theatrics proves Zelensky\u2019s point all over again. Where has the HRC been as one of its member states bombs maternity hospitals and murders families? (Most likely preparing to bash Israel some more.)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/russian-ambassador.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Russia's Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia departs following the conclusion of a meeting of the United Nations Security Council.\" class=\"wp-image-21787538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/russian-ambassador.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/russian-ambassador.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/russian-ambassador.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Russia\u2019s Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia departs following the conclusion of the United Nations Security Council meeting.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Timothy A. Clary\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sovereign states can no longer rely for defense on the norms of international law, but only on the strength of their own arms, the Ukrainian president pointed out as he called for a wholesale reimagining of the UN.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s crimes in Bucha, Mariupol, Kharkiv and beyond (back to Aleppo and Grozny) provide grim weight to his argument \u2014 and expose the hypocrisy that underlies so many groups claiming to defend human rights.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations is utterly incapable of succeeding in its mission. Believers in its principles should be seeking something better to replace it. \u00a0\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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