As the world's only truly universal global organization, the U.N. was supposed to become the foremost forum to address issues that transcend national boundaries and cannot be resolved by any one country alone. The veto power offered initially to five victorious nations, was abused throughout the years and decades by all forces, and mostly so, by the U.S. and its Western allies, especially when dealing with American, European adventures, and of course invariably in the case of Israel and its aggressions, occupations, annexations and blatant apartheid and brutality tactics vis-a vis its minorities and under occupation population.
These policies led to a weakened institution, not respected nor valued or obeyed. Only partially appreciated by the poor, when financial aid was donated. The year 2022 was particularly detrimental to the U.N. as international relations were turned upside down, and are still going. Nations in all continents are changing, they are rebelling and opposing the classical colonial powers, even if they are the superpowers, the world is not yet the multipolar that China and Russia are trying to bring about, but sure signs of division, non obeying and non compliance, and more independent political views are de rigueur.
The Russian invasion of its neighbor is surely a setback to this new worldwide approach, but so was Israel's behavior for the past seven decades. And the world is dividing itself into new camps everyday. Iran, Turkey, India, Brazil and many Arab nations as well as many African and Asian ones, are all considering themselves free of a certain Western dominance and ideology. This reorientation of the world is so visible in all aspects of governance and institutions and applications.
The biggest looser in this situation is the U.N., it was an old institution, created after world war two, and run totally by the U.S., Western powers, and the Soviet Union. Today these forces clash and are all trying to exclude the other inconvenient side, by reinterpreting history and the nature of the U.N. instead of the message of peace and international cooperation, most leaders are what they are, humans, and for many of their own selfish reasons, are using force, hegemony and brutality to enforce their personal agendas.
Above all, the functioning of the U.N. is annulled by putting aside the executive board of the security council. Initially the organization was founded, to recognize the equality between all states, and giving the veto power to few to prevent wider conflicts within the general assembly. But then slowly the consensus and the win-win atmosphere dissipated. we pretend to be surprised at the noncondemning of Russia over Ukraine, but we were not surprised at the same when the U.S. the U.K. and some of our European allies had our share of wars in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Again not to mention the total silence over Israel's invasions, annexations, transfer of population and colonialism. The U.N. became a total absolute ineffective assembly and organization.
Even if we succeed in isolating or kicking out certain parties, many others will not remain in a U.N. which Russia or China would have been excluded or diminished. The U.S. now aided by some allies, is trying to totally eclipse and topple the international tribunal of justice, because of attempts to declare the occupation of the Palestinian territories by Israel "Occupation" And investigating its behavior over their population. But we won't decrease our pressure for a condemnation of the Russian invasion and hegemony. The general assembly is no longer resigned to the Western disorder of the world nor its dual standards.
And finally, the present U.N. doesn't seem able even to override some intentional vetoes and blockages of the Syrian borders with Turkey to allow humanitarian very needed aid to affected populations of the devastating earthquake that hit the region lately, watching the people dying slowly while the world and its politics are ignoring them is surely a death sentence to the effectiveness of the organization.
The world is changing rapidly, and the Western populations are tired, pressuring our politicians and leaders to become more realistic, to stop distorting realities in the hope to maintain decades and centuries of wars, adventures, dictatorships and colonialism and hegemony, this game is old and over.
My, as always, many thanks to all.
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