RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-211 days agoAngloid journalists are not intellectual, to put it lightlyhexbear.netimagemessage-square25linkfedilinkarrow-up1255arrow-down12
arrow-up1253arrow-down1imageAngloid journalists are not intellectual, to put it lightlyhexbear.netRNAi [he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-211 days agomessage-square25linkfedilink
minus-squareblobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·11 days agoso stupid that France is a permanent member.
minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up47·edit-210 days agoIt’s stupid that the UN has an extra special boys club with power to block any meaningful progress in the first place
minus-squareFishroot [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·edit-210 days agoFrance being a permanent member is one of Stalin’s achievement, because he thought that France might turn socialist or Eastern Bloc friendly post war. USSR maintained this diplomatic support as the Algerian War raged on Nowaday, France having nukes and an extensive Penal battalion in west Africa probably helps
minus-squareTheLastHero [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·10 days agothey literally only are because the UK didn’t want to be “isolated” between the superpowers so they yanked France onto the council so churchill could have a colonialist bloc.
so stupid that France is a permanent member.
It’s stupid that the UN has an extra special boys club with power to block any meaningful progress in the first place
France being a permanent member is one of Stalin’s achievement, because he thought that France might turn socialist or Eastern Bloc friendly post war.
USSR maintained this diplomatic support as the Algerian War raged on
Nowaday, France having nukes and an extensive Penal battalion in west Africa probably helps
they literally only are because the UK didn’t want to be “isolated” between the superpowers so they yanked France onto the council so churchill could have a colonialist bloc.