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Jag: If the US ignores the UN, everybody will ignore the UN.
UT: Everybody DOES ignore the UN. The UN is only used when the big countries want to take action.
Jag: I meant about shipping rights.
UT: I meant about war. Most of the time the UN isn't consulted.
X: The big countries don't do anything not in their own interest. In a democracy, that interest is determined by an easily-swayed public.
H22: It's useless because states ignore it, the US is bad in that regard. Also, in this case we're trying to use it in a hypocritical way.
X: It's not that the UN is useless, it's that the client states won't do anything that's not in their self-interest.
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I'm not sure why I did this but I didn't want to waste it.