Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Why the United Nations is obsolete" video.

  1. The problem I see with the UN is more or less the same problem I see with the African Union, by letting in every country with no incentive to change, it archives very little and becomes far more of a talking shop that might as well not be there for all the good it does and to be fair to the UN, the US with the Iraqi war opened up a can of worms that others around the world are following by making the UN far less relevant. Personally, I think the UN needs to be scrapped and a new organisation built, based on countries that are democracies, whiles offer countries that are not, many incentives to want to change, in a sense, a bit like how the EU works, it encourages countries to want to change with the carrot and stick approach, and the EU have been quite successful with that. The UN is too much of a talking shop with very little power to archive anything, it's made all the worse because it's not a very equal talking shop because of the permanent members and like the video pointed out, there's little chance of it being reformed with how the world is shaping up, which means we either stick with what there is or we start a fresh and that seems unlikely. Maybe we need world war 3 to wake us up, because if you look closely, many countries are making a lot of the same mistakes that we've made through history, we are not learning from them and could be doomed to repeat them, I say we are not learning, it does seem like Europeans in the EU have learned more, but considering the history and the major world wars being destructive in that region, it doesn't surprise me that people there would think differently, contest that with the US that is actually starting to remind me of Europe of the past, hostile, erratic and unpredictable. With the way the world is shaping up, with a US that doesn't seem to care any more, a hostile more powerful China, a Russia that sees the good guys as weak so is pushing its luck and countless others that are starting to ignore internally rules, unless we do something to keep things in check and calm things down, we could be sleepwalking into something major and the signs are all around us with how unstable the world is getting, even places like the US isn't as stable as it used to be with it's polarised political system and angry public, its these little things happening all around us that mushroom into something bigger that gets out of control, which ironically, if you look closely at how the second world war started, all the warning signs were there for well over a decade or so before it started, we didn't do enough to reduce the risk and it led to the second world war. Maybe like they say, 3 times a charm, maybe a third world war is needed for us to really wake up because clearly we are not waking up from the lessons of history.
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