and why should I pay attention to what the UN says??

[BeBMan]

Wasn't it a US idea?

[BeBMan]

And the whining about the evil UN is boring. The UN is as good as the members make it.

[Bereta_Eder]

It isn't completely worthless but it gets bossed around too much.

[Ecthy]

Noone whines about the UN. German pacifists who enjoyed the 90s for too long whine about how the UN is getting weaker due to the evil US.

It having been a US idea had a practical reason: the idea to prevent major conventional wars between ideologically opposed great powers. Would be interesting to examien how its importance decreased 1. during and 2. after the cold war. Probably has to do with the growing nuclear deterrence and all.

[BeBMan]

GePap (IIRC, could be wrong) posted a while back an interesting article how the UN's importance is far from decreasing. Surprisingly it did not attract many replies. I think I posted it too since I hadn't seen the first thread on it

[Ecthy]

The UN was probably more of an FDR idea than a US idea. Think LON 1919.

[Ecthy]

Beb, it's your turn in the history quiz.