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The League of Nations was a precursor to the UN which did include enforcement, it turns out that is really complicated. One description was that collective security:
failed ultimately because of the reluctance of nearly all the nations in Europe to proceed to what I might call military sanctions … The real reason, or the main reason, was that we discovered in the process of weeks that there was no country except the aggressor country which was ready for war … [I]f collective action is to be a reality and not merely a thing to be talked about, it means not only that every country is to be ready for war; but must be ready to go to war at once. That is a terrible thing, but it is an essential part of collective security.
Considering the 5 countries that were supposed to coordinate in enforcing the rules immediately went for each others throats and that two of them have a competition on who can accumulate more violations of international law, the UN is actually going an amazing job at preventing the world from going up in flames.
The UN has a long history of having this complaint and no-one being willing to enforce international law. It turns out the US (allegedly the world police) doesn’t actually engage in military adventurism for humanitarian reasons, but for colonial ones (which it then tries to justify by pointing to humanitarian crises.)
In the 1980s, GURPS Supers (the superhero supplement to the Generic Universal Role-Playing Game) offered an alternative reality in which high-powered superheroes worked for the United Nations and gave them actual teeth.
It was before the internet and we didn’t have as much cause to be so cynical then.
I would run that campaign, and yes it would be extremely dystopian
A toothless tiger doesn’t bite.
international law without consequences is not law it is a wishlist
Why is no one following international law? I specifically requested it.
You have to declare it.
Did you say please?
If not, this is all your fault.
Well when you don’t hold the permanent members of the security council responsible for their actions, then of course it’ll be disregarded by those not on it permanently.
well what are they going to do, send a strong worded letter?
Well they have options, they coul…
RUSSIA: VETOED
Oh, well, I guess they could als…
CHINA: VETOED
I guess as a last resort they can at leas…
USA: VETOED
Jokes aside, I strongly believe spreading the unbiased truth has massive power, so I wouldn’t want to be on the badside of an organization with the singular largest investigative capability on earth.
Largest Investigative capabilities or most espionage?
All it took to dismantle global peace was the children of the original peacemakers asking “but does this serve me?” War was too profitable for the rich to abandon.
When the stupids figured out nobody would enforce consequences shit took a noise dive. It wasn’t good before but there was slow progress, now they’re just wrecking shit with impunity because the cowards who have the authority to take action say shit like “how could this happen” instead of finding their balls and doing something about it.
The UN needs teeth
The UN needs giant mechs? I agree.
DEMOCRACY IS NON-NEGOTIABLE pewpewpew
What do you mean no enforcement?! Them saying they are concerned IS the enforcement! 🤣
What a massive waste of money
Whatcha going to do? Send blue-hats to observe?
White helmets even?
Sure. That…I was half asleep.
Well UN “peacekeepers” wear blue, iirc, so I thought maybe you were speaking about that. I was just commenting on the White Helmets from Syria, who recently showed up in Venezuela. Neither group are loved where they go, but their masters love them, as long as they support the masters’ agendas. Noticing the difference between mission and ostensible mission.
I was talking about UN.
I gathered 😉
Might makes right. We forgot for a while. We’re remembering.
The US should be shackled under the rules and auspices of the UN. Force it to provide a % of its military to UN enforcement. Becoming a dog of international rules is the only just way forward for USA
