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Zelensky, in UN showdown, says strip ‘criminal’ Russia of veto power (ptv-news.com.pk)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nuclear power is unrelated to the security Council permanent members. They were simply the world powers that won WWII. At the time, many of them didn't have nukes yet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

May not be how it started, but it's what it's become.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

It is, however, one of the reasons people occasionally agitate to remove Russia because it wasn't Russia that won WW2.

It was the USSR, a major component of such being Ukraine.