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From Ukraine to the Middle East, the UN faces its impotence

ANALYSIS – The wars in Ukraine and Gaza have served as an accelerator for the countries of the South to challenge the international order dominated by the West since the end of the Second World War.

Rarely has a UN General Assembly so revealed its divisions and its impotence, even its inability to face the challenges that shake global governance. The majority of the countries of the South do not support the vision of the United States in the Middle East and are not behind Israel… And then China and Russia are lying in wait in the war for global influence »: In his final speech to the United Nations, Joe Biden acknowledged the disappearance of the international system that emerged from the Second World War while at the same time acknowledging the weakening of the United States as leader of the world order.

The US president could have said the same thing about Ukraine: Russia’s February 2022 invasion highlighted the ineffectiveness of what had been the world’s most important decision-making body, as did the US’ failure to impose its vision of the conflict outside Europe. The UN has become inaudible on the…

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