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Stinky The Clown

(67,786 posts) Sat Feb 26, 2022, 05:27 PM Feb 2022

Consider the United Nations

In 1945, the UN Security Council had five permanent members. Two of the five are no longer so.

The five were the Republic of China [Taiwan], France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Taiwan still exists but somehow lost recognition as being China.

The Soviet Union simply no longer exists. Russia is not the Soviet Union. Russia is Russia.

Sure, treaties and accommodations and adjustments and other.

At the very least, it seems to me, veto power for China and Russia should be reexamined.

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Consider the United Nations (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Feb 2022 OP

Too late. This should have been resolved years ago. Sneederbunk Feb 2022 #1

Taiwan is not considered a sovereign country by the UN. marie999 Feb 2022 #2

Poland was not part of the Soviet Union. lapucelle Feb 2022 #3

Sneederbunk

(14,289 posts)

1. Too late. This should have been resolved years ago.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Sat Feb 26, 2022, 05:35 PM

Feb 2022

marie999

(3,334 posts)

2. Taiwan is not considered a sovereign country by the UN.

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Sat Feb 26, 2022, 06:37 PM

Feb 2022

Only 15 countries do but not the US or any European country. I don't think the Soviet Union was ever thought to be a country since Poland was part of the Soviet Union but was also a member of the UN.

lapucelle

(18,245 posts)

3. Poland was not part of the Soviet Union.

Reply to marie999 (Reply #2)

Sun Feb 27, 2022, 09:26 AM

Feb 2022

Like other Eastern Bloc countries (East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania), Poland was regarded as a satellite state in the Soviet sphere of interest, but it was never a part of the Soviet Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_People%27s_Republic#1945%E2%80%931956

https://ipn.gov.pl/en/brief-history-of-poland#1945

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