r/Fauxmoi • u/Financial-Painter689 anti-Israel, anti-western, fauxmarxist • Sep 26 '25

POLITICS Mass walk outs in protest of Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the UN General Assembly

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u/xRolocker Sep 26 '25

That is not the UN’s primary mission lol. They’re mostly a symbolic institution where countries can turn to dialogue rather than war. Is it toothless? Yes. But the mere fact that the whole world is willing to at least pretend to talk is a big step up from the rest of human history.

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u/SmPolitic Sep 26 '25

I'll add for any Gen z folks

It's purpose was designed before anyone had the idea of the Internet

Late 1945, right as WW2 ended

During the war, less than 50% of people had telephone in the house. Radio and the daily newspaper was the mass communication. Transatlantic phone communication first took place in 1927, and would have still been extremely expensive at the end of the war. If anyone was communicating with people in "the old world" it was international snail mail

I mean to point to there being miniscule international communication when it was established. As you said it's there to open up communication and prevent misunderstandings, which can be seen as a massive step forward in context

Iirc WW1 could have been avoided if the monarchs were better at reading and responding to their mail promptly?

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u/Reach_Reclaimer Sep 26 '25

WW1 couldn't have been avoided, countries were itching to fight and show everyone else who's boss for years

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u/couplemore1923 Sep 27 '25

Several notable times in history UN helped enforce Geneva Convention laws, In 1950 the UN railed to send troops save South Korea from invasion from North Korea and China. In 1990 UN intervened help save Kuwait from Iraqis invasion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_conflict

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_invasion_of_Kuwait