The United Nations Security Council was designed to, in a phrase, keep the peace. Life didn’t have to be brutish and short; if the great powers got into a room, they could wield their collective might and solve any problem. The Security Council’s top priority—“the maintenance of international peace and security”—would prevent a third Great War from killing millions of people.
Unfortunately, we don’t live in a utopian fantasy land.
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