• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    If they didn’t veto it what would happen? Is there an article like NATO that would stipulate that the UN counties would go to war… I didn’t think there was. So I am unsure if would have any change.

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      9 months ago

      Resolutions made by the UN security council (which this would have been) can be enforced through the UN peacekeeping mission (aka the blue helmets) by stationing UN troops along the contact line to prevent hostilities from resuming. This has had mixed success in the past, there is actually a peacekeeping mission stationed right now on the Israel/Lebanon border which hasn’t prevented either side from shooting at each other after the October 7 attack.

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        9 months ago

        That’s good to know. So does that just require a majority vote? (Which if this wasn’t vetoed would have been a landslide). Or does it require some other percentage?

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          9 months ago

          UN general assembly majority vote, but security council, the permanent members all need to agree as even one nay is a veto.

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            9 months ago

            So that would mean if the U.S. eventually doesn’t veto it, Russia might as it has clearly been to their benefit.

            What a stupid world we live in.

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      9 months ago

      The UN is not a military defense organisation la NATO. It has military efforts, but they are all Pacific in the sense that they don’t take part and only help the civilian population (e.g.: running medical and food supplies, or protecting hospitals, etc.)

      The UN could go for economic and political sanctions, or try to move this in the Hague Courts in case the request goes unheard.