What an impressively bad take, I’m almost impressed. The UN is bad for not stopping the war and is warmongering by supplying weapons to Ukraine, but of course we shouldn’t criticize Russia for… oh I don’t know… starting the fucking war or continuing it for over a year for no defensible reason?
Especially given the fact that France tried talking Russia out of invading before the war and they still went ahead with it. So it’s not like the security council sat around and watched it happen.
It almost seems as if the West snd the Global South have completely different understandings of who is being the imperialist in the war. I don’t understand.
Okay, but he was right about this part:
"Lula said the United Nations had failed to assume its “responsibility” because permanent members of the Security Council “are the ones who foment wars.”
The UN security council is a joke and there shouldn’t be permanent members. It’s just neo imperialism.
I imagine that when it was formed there were two options - allow permanent members or form without the most important members.
This is it. How to do bring super powers to a group of nations and tell them they’ll have the same voice as tiny countries. Why would they bother showing up?
The world has changed since then, though. I dont think it makes much sense anymore to have France and the UK as permanent members though. Even Russia has shown itself to be more of a minnow than we thought…
Nukes. That’s all it is.
The permanent members are, or at least were so powerful that if they didn’t agree nothing could stop them .
The point of the permanent members of security council was to bring superpowers to the table and keep them there. Otherwise they could play their games and the smaller countries would all suffer for it.
Of course there are still problems, but through the security council and MAD we now have proxy wars and culture wars rather than a World War every couple decades.
In the perspective of actually preventing a new World War by drawing lines between superpowers instead of appeasement, I believe that the UN actually fulfills its role the best they can. Unlike its predecessor, the League of Nations, which went so much into the “appeasement against war” from its founding members (Britain and France) that it functionally collapsed in thw wake of WW2
I thought we were done with “slamming” in headlines. At least it felt like I didn’t see any of those here on Lemmy until now…
It always makes political statements read like Pokemon battles.
Lula uses SLAM on UN!
…it’s not very effective.
Unfortunately, it seems most politicians are Ghost types, since it never seems to affect them.
Reading terms like “slammed” instead of terms like “criticized” in a headline always makes me think the author must be an uncultured, uneducated and very ordinary person.
In order to be accurate, most of the news communities want the headline of the post to be the same as the one in the article. And as the news sites use “slam”, well…
Can’t say I fully understand his position on this, but I’d still rather have him running Brazil than the other guy.
“The world needs a new system of global governance.” Let me counter that part with “any long term system of governance inevitably becomes corrupt (assuming it wasn’t corrupt to begin with).”
It may be true that the (subjectively) important UN countries’ support of Ukraine in the conflict might not be for reasons that are completely aligned with those of Ukraine itself, but the fact Ukraine is being supported has - shall we say: ironically - prevented the governance of that country from being replaced by a more corrupt one.
Of course, pro-Russia folks will have the opposite opinion there.
It may be true that the (subjectively) important UN countries’ support of Ukraine in the conflict might not be for reasons that are completely aligned with those of Ukraine itself, but the fact Ukraine is being supported has - shall we say: ironically - prevented the governance of that country from being replaced by a more corrupt one.
More importantly, it’s not the UN involved in the conflict. It’s several countries who are members of the UN, these countries are independently feeding arms into Ukraine and also stimulating their arms production industry. The UN itself is explicitly not involved in the conflict. UN weapons do not go to Ukraine, weapons from specific nations (UK, US, Germany, everyone else) are going to Ukraine.
Lula’s position of not getting involved with the war and “slamming” the UN is further propagating the myth that the UN is involved in the war. Instead, it’s merely a 2 party war between Russia and Ukraine, where Russia is getting arms from places like China and Iran and Ukraine is getting things from the west.
Guys I’m sure appeasement will work this time, right?
Right?
