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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat is the UN take on attacking Syria?
For US action? Against?
If Russia is against our acting, why haven't they asked for an emergency Security Council meeting? For that matter, why hasn't China?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)It has no meaningful role to play in international crises.
Assad is a client of the Russians. They want him kept around at all costs.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)I figured they'd work to preemptively work to condemn an attack.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Save time. Save money. Open up some prime NYC real estate.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Throws small states a bone to make them feel like their voice matters.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)All the rest, including just about everything people associate with the UN these days, is window dressing. The entire purpose of the organization is "make the Third World War not happen," in part through codifying the current state of the world since 1945. People can be as cynical as they want about the rest, but the safety valve factor it's provided the major powers has probably been more than worth the price.
That said, "no meaningful role" is overstating things just a bit, given that they authorized the Libyan intervention (and avoided a veto in the process, which still surprises me), to say nothing of the handful of ongoing United Nations combat operations around the world lately.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Perhaps Russia could send troops to Syria....
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)do on a Facebook chat.
JI7
(89,182 posts)OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)I gather they haven't reached one in this instance.
JI7
(89,182 posts)would be for symbolic reasons.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)Response to OmahaBlueDog (Original post)
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reformist2
(9,841 posts)After all, it's the US (or the neocons, more accurately) itching to do something. Russia and China want to do nothing.