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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[–] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The UN aided in the criminal embargo of Yemen that starved hundreds of thousands of civilians. Instead of clearing the Saudi and American roadblocks stopping ships from docking at their ports, the UN added an additional layer of roadblocks on top of the Saudi/US ones and reinforced the sanctions and starvation. They are complicit in genocide. That is what they actually do in war zones. Their goal was for there just to be 1 checkpoint for ships to be approved at before docking in Yemen (to check for Iranian weapons or whatever), but the Saudis and Americans disregarded the UN and kept doing their stops anyway. The UN was unable to get them to stop, but also kept enforcing their own roadblocks.

At best, the UN is too feckless and weak to make things better despite earnest attempts. At worst, they are collaborators with the imperialists in their sanction regimes of mass starvation.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yup, you are correct. These are not failures. These are the inherent contradictions of the system.

[–] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Less so contradictions, and moreso the system just doing what it is primarily designed to do. Promote American imperialism and legitimize their sanction regimes.

The UN was originally a counterbalance between the USSR and the capitalist west to stabilize the world and allow a forum for negotiations and diplomacy. Since the USSR collapsed, it lost its original function as one side of the scale now was empty. The US then had full control to use the UN as a tool towards its own ends.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think you don't understand what a contradiction is in dialectical Materialist sense. Here, the two contradictory forces are the UN and the global democratic governance. https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Contradiction

[–] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I don't think there's any element of global democratic governance going on there. It's headquartered in New York, the same state where Maduro and his wife are being paraded around as a roman triumph, flaunting all UN charter resolutions. It's a total farce. The only time UN decisions mean anything at all is when the US is backing it, and it's usually just there to give legitimacy to the US. If the US doesn't want something they just veto or ignore it without consequence. It's all benefit, no downside to the US.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 days ago