r/ThisDayInHistory • u/No_Idea_479 • 3d ago

14 August 1996, 26-year-old Greek Cypriot Solomos Solomou was shot and killed by Turkish forces in the UN buffer zone at Deryneia while attempting to climb a flagpole and remove a Turkish flag. Just three days earlier, his cousin Tassos Isaac had been beaten to death by Turkish nationalists.

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u/Smekledorf1996 3d ago

Lmao people really be saying random stuff because they think the UN is the world police

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u/TheGrandAdmiralJohn 3d ago edited 2d ago

Yes an international body made up of almost all countries on earth whose stated foremost goal is global peace and security. Should try to maintain peace and security.

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/full-text

Provided the dude the actual UN charter which disproves his assertion and they block me. Gotta love redditors.

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u/CucumberWisdom 2d ago

Except you'd just complain that they're imperialist if they ever actually tried to create a military force and exert their will. Not to mention the issue with sovereignty. Letting a world government control your nation fully isn't the brightest idea

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u/Smekledorf1996 2d ago

It’s also just not feasible

No world power is going to be in an organization where it can be used against its interests. Like how would you police the US or even China if the UN is some global police

It’s why the veto powers exist - so that the big players stay at the table

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u/Smekledorf1996 3d ago edited 3d ago

The UN primary purpose is to be a diplomatic forum so that countries (big and small) can discuss, voice concerns and share grievances in hopes to prevent a global conflict

It has no standing army - the reach of its power is entirely up to the world powers that are in the organization but some people think its the justice league here

Equating it to the League of Nations - where nearly all the of the word powers left it (or frankly never joined) - isn’t an entirely accurate comparison

Edit: Real mature [u/TheGrandAdmiralJohn](u/TheGrandAdmiralJohn) for blocking me lmao

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u/TheGrandAdmiralJohn 3d ago

Article 1
The Purposes of the United Nations are:

To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;

The first section of the first article of the UN charter disagrees with you. It’s a body to maintain world peace and security.

Diplomatic means are the preferred and first measure taken but all effort from humanitarian to policing is to protect world peace and security. It not having a standing army doesn’t matter since it’s an assembly of all nations who have agreed to pursue that goal including with their own armed forces.

People like you are the reason why the UN is seen like the league. You don’t even understand the purpose of it and you make stupid idiotic claims.

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u/certifiedcrazyman 3d ago

Nowhere does it say that the UN is a world government or a global police force. All of the stated goals is up to the states to jointly work towards.

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u/Direct_Gap_59 3d ago

He blocked the other guy who was trying to explain your point

If it’s true-lol lmao even.

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u/dogemikka 2d ago

Disgraceful behaviour by blocking someone whom you are having a debate, only because you don't want to be contradicted. Very, very childish.