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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

If they didn't veto it what would happen? Is there an article like NATO that would stipulate that the UN counties would go to war... I didn't think there was. So I am unsure if would have any change.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Resolutions made by the UN security council (which this would have been) can be enforced through the UN peacekeeping mission (aka the blue helmets) by stationing UN troops along the contact line to prevent hostilities from resuming. This has had mixed success in the past, there is actually a peacekeeping mission stationed right now on the Israel/Lebanon border which hasn't prevented either side from shooting at each other after the October 7 attack.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That's good to know. So does that just require a majority vote? (Which if this wasn't vetoed would have been a landslide). Or does it require some other percentage?

[–] outrageousmatter 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

UN general assembly majority vote, but security council, the permanent members all need to agree as even one nay is a veto.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

So that would mean if the U.S. eventually doesn't veto it, Russia might as it has clearly been to their benefit.

What a stupid world we live in.

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