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| Removing Russia from the U.N. Security Council is a punishment that would matter |
| 2022-04-16 |
| [Rob Adolph - Tampa Bay Times] The United Nations just voted Russia off the Human Rights Council. Embattled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants much more from the international body, and who can blame him? Serious war crimes have been committed by the Moscow regime. The U.S. and E.U. have decided to add more layers of increasingly harsh economic and financial sanctions against Russia and its leadership — official and unofficial — following the brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Previous sanctions have not worked. New sanctions will probably not work either, at least not in the near term. Short of combat, how can the international community further punish the regime in Moscow in ways that will have genuine impact? It can remove Russia from its permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. Why does Vladimir Putin enjoy a seat? There is only one answer: The late Soviet Union possessed a huge arsenal of atomic weapons. Although Russia contains a significant natural resource base, the nation is not a global leader in technology, innovation, finance, manufacture or any other commercial or financial enterprise. Russia is by most accounts a massively under-developed kleptocracy. Reckless dictators like Putin, no matter how many nuclear missiles they possess, should be excluded from the globe’s most exclusive nation-state club. Permanent Security Council members that violate international law and norms of conduct by invading another member state without just cause should be expelled from what today is called "The Big Five" — the U.S., U.K., France, China and Russia. Robert Bruce Adolph is a former US Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel and United Nations Chief Security Advisor, who holds graduate degrees in both international affairs and national security studies and strategy. His previously published works have appeared in nearly every US military publication of note. Most recently, he penned the commentary series "Dispatch from Rome" for the Military Times. Adolph also recently published the book entitled "Surviving the United Nations: The Unexpected Challenge." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 Besoeker, thanks for bringing this to my attention. This guy is a moron. The Security Council seat for Russia is there for Russia to protect its interests without killing millions of people. Believe me, Russia will protect their interests even if it means killing a bunch of US Special forces officers to do it. Probably the reason this author is alive to write this tripe is that Russia/Soviet Union was able to peacefully protect its interests at the UN during his service rather than killing him and his unit. |
| Posted by: rammer 2022-04-16 20:56 |