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United Nations Security Council

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United Nations Security Council

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United Nations Security Council is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 08, 2022 and June 24, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “whichever Security Council member is most complicit”; “with the approval of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)“. It most often appears alongside CIA, Crimea, Donetsk.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: March 08, 2022
  • Last seen: June 24, 2022

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Ukraine Thoughts And Links
March 08, 2022 · Original source
The Pax Americana playbook for international norm violations is: the US slaps sanctions on the offender. The EU expresses “concern”. The UN proposes a resolution condemning it, which gets vetoed by whichever Security Council member is most complicit. And the CIA secretly gives Stinger missiles to everyone involved.
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June 24, 2022 · Original source
In the satire, the terrorists have WMDs courtesy of Kim Jong Un; in real life, Saddam had neither WMDs nor terrorist ties. International law allows the use of force either in self-defence or with the approval of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The “legal” American military interventions include: The Korean War (1950-1953): UNSC declared a “breach of the peace” when North Korea crossed the 38th parallel
The Korean War (1950-1953): UNSC declared a “breach of the peace” when North Korea crossed the 38th parallel
The First Gulf War (1990-1991): UNSC authorised the US and 34 other countries to bomb Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi invation out of Kuwait at the Gulf Monarchy’s request