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   kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (kline@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 08:18:15 JST kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

   @novenary @chjara taught from a geopolitics point of view, the UN is the latest in a long series of institutions that exist to maintain and protect the national interests of the winners of widespread conflict. Similarly we have the League of Nations and the Peace of Westphalia before.

   While UN some un-bodies do great work, it's no coincidence that the only legally binding group, the Security Council has permanent members with veto powers all given to the winners of WWII - US, UK, FRA, RUS, CHN.

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     kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (kline@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 08:19:10 JST kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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     @novenary @chjara (i always feel anxious i come off as a crank when talking about stuff like this, because so much polisci lingo has been co-opted by conspiracy theorists and those with axes to grind 😭

     see also the current railing against "15 minute cities" as some kind of "woke plot" to control and restrict freedom of movement - bro, they just want to be able to walk to the corner shop)

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     @novenary @chjara I promise this isn't some weird "anti-globalist" conspiracy, it's just how nations position themselves internationally when they're given carte blanche to determine the world order -in this case called the rule-based international order - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_international_order - with a mandate where they can claim they represent international best interests, like the Allies did following WWII.