Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "" video.

  1. So the moral of the story is that the Republicans in the US are making the UN irrelevant and as the US sees fit to ignore it, a lot more other countries are willing to do the same, making the organisation less relevant. The truth is, the UN for a long time has been just a talking shop with limited to no powers and that's likely how it will stay unless countries are willing to give it more powers, which seems unlikely with how things are in the world. This is also why the EU, US and China are the real powers, they can talk but they also have the power to act, the UN doesn't. It's a shame the UN is becoming less relevant, because it feels like the world is taking steps backwards and it's also ironic how it's the US that did most of the damage to it considering they pushed the organisation in the first place, but I suspect after the second world war, the UN suited the US fine because they didn't really have any rivals with Europe recovering from the second world war, apart from the Soviets that is, but as other powers grew, mainly the EU and China, all of a sudden, the usefulness of the UN went into decline, it was clear to see with the Iraqi war 2 decades ago and the reasons for it happening are very clear, the US went from a compromising nation to a first nation, which means the US ended up ignoring a lot of the rulings in the UN so a lot of other countries around the world did the same. I feel the real problem with the UN is that it's a club that anyone can enter, regardless of policies of the country, it kinda reminds me of the African Union where they let all the African countries in whereas if you compare that to the EU, there are a lot of incentives and changes countries need to do before they can join, there's none of that with the UN. I feel the UN needs major changes, maybe become a democracy only club with incentives for countries wanting to join, the EU does it well with a lot of political and economic benefits, NATO does it with security guarantees, what does the UN offer its members? What does it offer countries wanting to join in incentives to change? That for me is where the problem is with the UN and why it's mostly a talking shop, it's got no real powers to do anything, there's little to nothing holding its members together, and there's no incentive for them to work together.
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