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Originally Posted by blankall
Removing Russia from the SC would essentially end the best avenue of diplomacy with Russia. It would also result in Russia, and whoever they can manage to convince to come with them, essentially withdrawing from the UN and no long heading any international rule of law. The response from Russia would just be to increase the pace of whatever it plans on doing.
There's also no mechanism to remove them. The UN was established on the principle that the permanent SC members would remain that way forever. All permanent members of the UN SC have veto power, and the only way to remove a member is by approval from the SC. You'd essentially have to dissolve the UN and start a new body to remove any of the permanent members. The Russia and its allies would not join this new international body.
The only, realistic, weapons the West has are economic pressure and beating Russia at its own propaganda game. If the West can turn Russia's population against Putin and they remove him themselves, that's the only way to really defeat him.
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Again Russia was not an original or permanent member of the SC. USSR was.
I'm sure lawyers could draw something up if that's the path the SC wanted to go down - which isn't likely. You're right having Russia there is actually probably a good thing.