• Poggervania@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Actual question: why in the fuck can the US veto actions by the UN? Can other countries veto as well? Or is it only the US that can do that with the implied threat we’d swing our militaristic dick around or something?

    • Scrof@sopuli.xyz
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      11 months ago

      Russia has been vetoing peacekeeping forces in Novorossiya since 2014, for example. China has been vetoing investigations into Uyghur genocide too. Also this particular resolution is fucking stupid as is the whole Arab-world sponsored money laundering machine of Palestine rights council of the UN. People don’t understand that “supporting Palestine” is literally the same as supporting Vova, Xi, Kim, Assad and Khamenei since they’re all the same totalitarian terrorist axis.

      • Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        11 months ago

        Yes, the other countries are China, France, Russia and the UK. These are the Security Counsel states of the UN, seen by many as a peace-keeping organization.

        Wikipedia notes that

        They also happen to be the nuclear-weapon states (NWS) under the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

        Also on a completely unrelated note, here is the list of the top 5 arms dealers:

        Source: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database

        Generated: 09 December 2023