Edit: jesus fucking christ, just verbal masturbation and racist bullshit for 20 minutes under the guise of a declaration of war lmao what a fucking clown car of a country.

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[–] newacctidk@hexbear.net 68 points 4 days ago (7 children)

We say it a lot, but the UN is so godamn feckless. No demand for the US to stand down, no urgent meeting to discuss intervention, no other militaries even gesturing that this is a bad look. Radio fucking silence. This is all happening in slow motion.

Has the Brazilian military been on alert? Or is everyone really going to sit back and watch, make a speech maybe, and then talk about how no one could've seen this coming?

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 42 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

The UN, theoretically, should be the greatest deterrent to colonialism, giving assembly and collective power to everyone who is not the hegemon.

You’d think that if countries valued their sovereignty, they would use all tools they have available to them to stop United States from going to war against a country without even a casus belli. Oil is literally an official reason stated by the adminc (I’m going to take a wild guess), where are the Gulf nations? Where’s the BRICS coalition?

[–] DaMummy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You should watch the movie The Whistleblower. Yes it's a true story. It's based on what the UN actually does in war zones.

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I am aware of the UN’s failings lol

[–] DaMummy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's your issue. You don't see it as a UN success story.

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

Because it's not. Your failing is viewing singular happenings isolated from the context which enabled them.

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