UN is and must be a failure

Today 6th August, Hiroshima day, is a good day to reflect on the UN, and the yawning gap between its lofty intentions and its actual achievements.

History

The UN was created in 1945 in the closing of WWII.
In its creation it put together on equal footing countries (so-called) such as:

Area

• Maldives 300 sq-km
• Russia 17,000,000 sq-km

Population

• Tuvalu < 10,000
• China, India both > 1,300,000,000 (ie > a billion)

Age

• India, Egypt, China, Greece whose history goes back many millennia
• USA — a few hundred years old
• Pakistan, Iraq and many others that had just been cobbled together a couple of decades previously

Aggression Forces (usually euphemized as defence)

• Costa Rica, Iceland : No armies
• Antigua, Barbuda population of 100,000, has an army of 170 (ie 0.1% of population)
• China 1,250,000 troops (ie 10% population)

Murder Expenditure (also called defence budget)

• US > $600 billion pa
• Global expenditure about $1500 billion
• ie US spends between ⅓ and ½ as the whole world

And the UN effectively ratified and made equal these unimaginably disparate entities such as the above by putting them on the General Assembly (UNGA) on equal footing!!! 

And so if the UNGA is the formalization of bullshit, the 

UNSC 

is the systematization of murder.  It was formed thus:

UN — Whats right and whats Wrong

If there is one factor about the homo sapien species that over-shadows all others, it is war.

War we must understand in the wider sense and not just the classical ones (with bayonets!) that are quite unfashionable today but civil wars, insurgencies, terrorism and all sorts of large scale violence, oppression, occupation etc

And if it is true that war is an unwarranted and unmitigated terror, then the UN which was constituted to  ensure that the likes of WWII would not ever repeat should be considered the pinnacle of human goodness and vision.

But has it even remotely succeeded in its laudable objective? Or have the goal posts (and bunkers) just shifted?

Trying to stop wars without trying to see why they occur is to confuse symptoms with disease.

War is a symptom not the disease