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[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nothing wrong with that. It’s a good way to keep accountability and see where every country stands.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

And the US is going to veto it because....?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

They did already. They are Israel's bitches.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

US was actually the only country to veto. Does not look good tbf

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And now China is condemning it. Like, wtf. I honestly don't know why we are blocking U.N. action on this. It's brazenly pro-ethnic cleansing. It's not like there's wiggle room to debate, there's no room. It's just plainly a mass killing of a minority population that was already living under apartheid conditions.

Are our political leaders just religious enough to quake in fear at the thought of angering their abrahamic diety? Or is this confirmation that there really IS a powerful zionist cabal that can manipulate US foreign policy?

I mean, both are conspiratorial stretches, but wtf else could biden hang this decision on?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If they didn't veto it what would happen? Is there an article like NATO that would stipulate that the UN counties would go to war... I didn't think there was. So I am unsure if would have any change.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Resolutions made by the UN security council (which this would have been) can be enforced through the UN peacekeeping mission (aka the blue helmets) by stationing UN troops along the contact line to prevent hostilities from resuming. This has had mixed success in the past, there is actually a peacekeeping mission stationed right now on the Israel/Lebanon border which hasn't prevented either side from shooting at each other after the October 7 attack.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's good to know. So does that just require a majority vote? (Which if this wasn't vetoed would have been a landslide). Or does it require some other percentage?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

UN general assembly majority vote, but security council, the permanent members all need to agree as even one nay is a veto.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

So that would mean if the U.S. eventually doesn't veto it, Russia might as it has clearly been to their benefit.

What a stupid world we live in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The UN is not a military defense organisation la NATO. It has military efforts, but they are all Pacific in the sense that they don't take part and only help the civilian population (e.g.: running medical and food supplies, or protecting hospitals, etc.)

The UN could go for economic and political sanctions, or try to move this in the Hague Courts in case the request goes unheard.