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- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
The US has vetoed a Palestinian request to the United Nations security council for full UN membership, blocking the world body’s recognition of a Palestinian state.
The vote in the 15-member security council was 12 in favor, the US opposed and two abstentions, the UK and Switzerland.
US officials had been hoping Washington could avoid use of its veto if other states objected to a draft resolution before the council recommending the “State of Palestine be admitted to membership of the United Nations”.
That justifies the existence of the UN, not the veto power for permanent members.
Also your justification follows the “tiger repelent rock” pattern: we don’t really know if the “no nuclear winter yet” is due to the UN or not, much less due to the whole veto power thing - two conditions existing at the same time doesn’t mean they have a causal relationship.
MAD is just as good or better explanation for that specific outcome and the process by which it would work it’s a lot simpler, so it’s the logical one to choose per Occan’s Razor.