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me🇺🇦irl (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/me_irl@lemmy.world
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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Veto power in the UN is a short for "we will use nukes if you do this". The UN is not world government, it's the organisation which task(among many less important things) is to prevent nuclear war.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Ah, that explains why India and North Korea have veto power.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As good as this comment is, neither has the range or targeting capability that the US does or that the USSR did.

    The security council veto was designed to keep the US and the USSR at the negotiating table and off the battlefield.

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