Among first acts of UN was a "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" act.
Russia and eastern bloc nations abstained
Critics complained that the UN had a "completely western" clarity of purpose despite having members such as India, Ethiopia Egypt and Turkey. (Christians, Muslims Hindus and Jews.
UN went from 51 member states in '48, to 83 in'59 to 132 in '72 to 184 by 1993. One of the before mentioned to loopholes allowed for the addition of authoritarian children of the USSR and China and Fundamentalist Islamist regimes. By the time the this had happened only 75 out of 184 were free democracies, the rest being dictatorships. They were able to vote in rules using the loopholes set by Russia during the founding of the U.N. Charter.
Now we had a U.N where 2/3rds of the member states (now known as the nonaligned union) that were dictatorial in nature that represented less than half the worlds population.
Support for the U.S. eroded from 50.1% that voted with the US in 1995 but by 1999 only 41.8% voted wit the US. The stated reason for this was that U.S interests were divergent with the interests of dictatorial interests of such members.
Early in the lifespan of the UN, authoritarian regimes did not have much power or say so in U.N affairs but by the 90s, the U.N had gerrymandered itself to the point where statists ran the show and the nations not involved in genocide or nuclear proliferation were outvoted.
By 1950, Dean Achenson (Secretary of State under Truman) said the UN charter was a huge mistake, and even President Truman who was among the biggest advocates for the UN had decided it was a big mistake. One big reason for this as the Veto power of the USSR which had become a cold war adversary. The U.N. Security Council was effectively neutralized because any proposal by the USA was vetoed by the USSR and Vice-Versa. It was believed that with the fall of the USSR, that the deadlock in the Security Council would change but that was not the case. (Could it be because all the European Nations on the security council are now socialists?)
Among the first US Presidents to become an open critic of the UN was JFK. This happened over the "Goa incident." In the "Goa Incident", India attacked a small enclave left over form the colonial era that was under the control of Portugal. No attempt was ever made to negotiate i.e. ask Portugal to leave. Instead Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru resorted to armed force. To justify the use of force, India claimed that Goa was Indian land by law. The said law was UN resolution 1514 which advocated decolonization of African and Asian states. The original draft resolution called for the establishment of representative governments in their places but this was blocked by the Statist regimes, so the actual law allowed for the establishment of dictatorial regimes in the place of withdrawing colonies.
Think of all the parts of the world impacted by this resolution from Iraq to N.Korea to Somalia, etc. Exempt from this resolution were the Eastern Bloc soviet satellite states as they were declared sovreign states despite the fact that Moscow had full control of all aspects of the lives of those populations. Had America had leaders with any sort of spine when the U.N. was created, our States would each have a vote just as the Soviet States do. So the "Goa incident" forced the U.N. to redefine the term "aggression" Bottom line: the U.N. basically ignored the whole incident because it was "too involved" in the Nuremburg and Tokyo military trials.
Following the "Goa incident" the Soviets began working on more restrictive definitions of "aggression designed to prevent any western response to the spread of Communism. Meanwhile, third world countries insisted that "aggression" must not be interpreted as "limiting the scope of the right of a people's self determination." By 1974 this rule was expanded to property rights of corporations, meanwhile any country that wanted could initiate "aggression" against it's neighbors as a "right of
self determination"
Next we will discuss the UN support of the nations it created and terrorism the UN allowed and endorsed regarding those states. There is a major point to this regarding the current administration and the promised "fundamental change."
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