The UN rocks my world

[ROB]

I thought it had been a while since I proverbially ass fucked you troglodytes about how effective the UN has been in... well basically everything they do.

Here is yet another study proving that it basically works as advertised.

If the big words hurt your head, maybe ask your retarded neighbour to read it for you.

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The UN actually does prevent war, according to study of General Assembly votes


The United Nations has been effective at suppressing conflict throughout its history, according to an analysis of more than 65 years of voting records conducted by Dartmouth College and The Ohio State University. The study presents evidence that the U.N. acts more than just a bystander on world events, and that it provides a forum where diplomacy reduces the chance of war.

In addition to analyzing the U.N.'s effectiveness at preventing war, the research also uses voting records to assess the organization's impact on the spread of democracy and the building of defensive alliances.

The study appears in the journal Physica A.

"Our analysis provides evidence that the U.N. is more than just a witness of changing policy preferences," said Scott Pauls, chair of the Department of Mathematics at Dartmouth College. "The world body impacts future decisions, particularly by suppressing conflict."

The review of 5,143 U.N. General Assembly voting records from 1946 through 2011, found that the process of nations working together over time builds trust and facilitates fast, transparent communication that raises the chance of resolving crises peacefully.

"There is more nuance in voting records than was previously thought," said Skyler Cranmer, professor of political science at The Ohio State University. "The evidence demonstrates that the U.N. is more effective at achieving its mandate of avoiding wars than many experts think."

The research assesses the priorities that shape state actions as opposed to treating voting records as a reflection of those priorities. Up until now, existing research on the U.N. mostly considered voting patterns descriptively or addressed the impact of factors like foreign aid contributions on member voting.

From the voting records, researchers identified historic voting alliances - labelled as "affinity communities" - consisting of long-term macroclusters and short-term microclusters that provide the basis for coalition building and cooperation.

Macroclusters named in the research are the more enduring U.N. voting alliances. One macrocluster identified is comprised of the U.N.'s Western European and Others Group as well as Russia, Japan, China and some Eastern European countries. The second, much larger group comprises the balance of U.N. members.

According to the study, there have been 15 times in the U.N.'s history when the two macroclusters have merged into a voting community including all but a few outlier states. In most of these instances, the United States and a small number of other countries formed a group separated from the rest of the world as a result of divisive votes on issues like the Middle East and human rights.

Microclusters are more volatile voting alliances that form and dissolve in response to faster moving political dynamics. The high level of voting agreement within microclusters translates into the largest degree of conflict suppression.

"While the U.N. obviously does not prevent all armed conflict, the affinity communities reduce the probability of conflict," said Pauls. "It is through this mechanism of intensified diplomatic interaction that the U.N. has historically been able to better achieve its primary goal of maintaining international peace and security."

Additional results from the research include:

- affinity communities are reflective of transitions from autocracy to democracy, but do not play a significant role in the spread of democracy;

- affinity communities correspond to an increased possibility of defensive cooperation, but the research does not demonstrate that voting alliances translate to defensive alliances;

- the research confirms a policy divide between developed and less developed countries that is occasionally broken occasionally when the rest of the world stands against the United States.

Provided by Dartmouth College

[Kurt]

That is a great study.

Unless you are Haitian.

I know Haitians don't count but the focus of U.N. activity of was the poorest place in the poorest country of the Western Hemisphere...Cite Soliel and I was there in 2004.

Flimsy tin shacks that UN bullets sailed through like nothing. Kids everywhere.
And most cruel of all the Bangladeshi troupes would execute people's pigs. Just because.

And lets not forget who brought Cholera into Haiti. A place Cholera free since at least the first US invasion in 1916.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lani ... 73-3099(15)00411-9/fulltext#:~:text=The%20investigation%20panel%E2%80%94selected%20by,cholerae%20introduced%20by%20human%20activity.

Haitians are incredibly clean people. They have to be to live. Typically 60% of household income is spent on soap. Its a place where there are open sewers but people don't just crap wherever. Its a place where people bathe in rivers but not just in any spot. There are rules and those rules keep them alive.

The UN did not know those rules and set up pit latrines near rivers and the UN dudes from would often just rather shit whereever they pleased (they were armed so who was gonna stop them?)

Then there was Rifles Mutiny in Bangladesh. The cause was that the regular grunts paid an advance kickback to get stationed in MINUSTAH in Haiti and then their commanders just took the cash and deployed who they wanted anyway. After 50+ officers were fragged the Rifles surrendered and then the very peacekeeping UN issued a critical report on how endemic torture was of the mutineers in Prison (many were electrocuted to death)

What is so morbidly funny about bringing up UN crimes in Haiti to people who like the UN is to eventually get them to brush it off and say "Haiti doesn't count" Cuz they always do.

Anway, on a positive note the UN has done a heckuva job in Cyprus. No war there in decades.

[rickshaw92]

I truly felt I was makin a difference when I deployed to Cyprus.

The best part was all the feral cats.

[Kurt]

I truly felt I was makin a difference when I deployed to Cyprus.

The best part was all the feral cats.

What other nations are there? You get Jordanians, Nigerians and Bangladeshi there?

[rickshaw92]

Mainly UK and Argies and a bunch of Slovakians. Saw a few Jordanians, a Chinese dude and a Russian.

One other Canadian but she was Canadian military.

[el3so]

Mainly UK and Argies and a bunch of Slovakians. Saw a few Jordanians, a Chinese dude and a Russian.

Did they all walk into a bar?

[rickshaw92]

No, though we did have one.

[ROB]

No, though we did have one.

Probably paid for by the UN.

[rickshaw92]

It was a social area at the cookhouse with pool, ping pong, couches and a sound system and was run by whatever unit happened to be rotating through. Beer was cheap.