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You can’t spell “dysfunction” without the UN

Today, Explained

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How to Reform the UN Security Council After Russia Invading Ukraine

Ori Friedman: The UN Security Council was not designed to turn its sights inward on its own members. He says the body's most vulnerable is when a permanent member decides to be an aggressor and wields it in a way that becomes totally ineffectual as a means of stopping war. In some ways, this is a feature, not a bug of the Security Council; we saw that all too vividly in the war in Ukraine," he says.

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