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Angloid journalists are not intellectual, to put it lightly (hexbear.net)

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[-] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 42 points 2 weeks ago

As a reminder, the five permanent members are China (originally the Republic of China until 1971), France, Russia (as a successor to the USSR), the United Kingdom, and the United States.

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 30 points 2 weeks ago

so stupid that France is a permanent member.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 47 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's stupid that the UN has an extra special boys club with power to block any meaningful progress in the first place

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

France being a permanent member is one of Stalin's achievement, because he thought that France might turn socialist or Eastern Bloc friendly post war.

USSR maintained this diplomatic support as the Algerian War raged on

Nowaday, France having nukes and an extensive Penal battalion in west Africa probably helps

[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 22 points 2 weeks ago

they literally only are because the UK didn't want to be "isolated" between the superpowers so they yanked France onto the council so churchill could have a colonialist bloc.