Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "West opposes rest of world in UN votes for fairer economic system, equality, sustainable development" video.

@burdizzoid Non-imperialistic nationalism (or, more properly, state sovereignty) is not the same as American Exceptionalism whereby the USA (and western Europe) has the right to its own culture, who it allows into the country, and how it uses its national resources free from the interference of others (i.e. absolute and unqualified sovereignty within its national territory but others do not. Just some examples of your kind of "patriotic nationalism" are: Telling Iran it cannot have The Bomb but the USA can; That Europe cannot import Russian oil and gas while the USA can still do so on the sly; That China has no right to exercise full sovereignty over its national territories of Tibet, Hong Kong and Taiwan but the USA can exercise de facto semi-sovereignty over the national territories of countries like Syria and Kosovo; That Muslims and Hindus (fundamentalists) must interpret their religions in ways that don't offend the sensibilities of secular liberals while Christian fundamentalists are free to go around banning abortion; Telling the world that it cannot have socialism or communism but only Anglo-American corporatism and killing millions to stop it.
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The European Union was never really democratic because it never was intended to be. Ditto the United Nations.
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It serves its founders and will continue to exist as long as its founders exist; that's China, France, Britain, Russia and the United States. Every other member is just a co-voter of one or more of the aforementioned, supporting them out of self-interest or necessity.
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@fun_ghoul Irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that China as a nation-state co-founded the UN and will certainly not wish to see its demise anytime soon, especially as it can reasonably be expected to dominate the institution in the fullness of time or if can't, founding something that will be very similar in form and function.
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