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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
People want the UN to be some kind of righteous champion of human rights and peacekeeping but it's real underlying mandate is to prevent WWIII.
It was formed out of the failure of the League of Nations from preventing WWII (which was in itself formed out of the failure of the detente system from preventing WWI).
There is a reason why the permanent security council includes Russia, the UK, France, US, and China. It's made up of the victors of WWII so they will be able to engage each other as the expected dominant post-war powers.
Preventing WWIII is exactly why nobody is directly helping Ukraine against Russia and only providing supplies and lethal aid. They do not want to stoke Russia into contemplating using its nuclear stockpile.
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It's odd that China is considered as one of the victors since back then, they were a third world country with a terrible military and weapons, which is a big reason why the Japanese were able to commit the atrocities they carried out on women and children during the Rape of Nanking. China was so irrelevant back then I'm not sure I would consider them victors of the war other than the fact that their invaders were destroyed by the Americans with the use of nuclear weapons.