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Super Veto Powers of The World.


Who are they and what do they really stand for?

Who they are.

World super powers are countries known and recognized over the world as extremely powerful countries with the ability to determine the day to day running affairs and major economics of the world through their foreign policies. These are countries who constantly project their influence on the world stage in the news. These countries have Gross Domestic Products (GDPs) of over One Trillion Dollars each making their GDP per capita to exceed Ten Thousand US Dollars.

Super powers are grouped into two; the post WWII super powers and those that emerged afterwards. This post would dwell more on the post WWII super powers.

These are countries who gained their powers according to the Oppenheim's International Law, United Nations which states that " Permanent membership in the security council was granted to five states based on their importance in the aftermath of WWII". These five states or countries that got the permanent memberships are; United States, Soviet Union(Russia), United Kingdom, France and China. Some may ask why Germany is not on the list and the answer to that according to the Oppenheim law is very simple because Nazi Germany lead by Adolf Hitler actually caused the second world war.

The role of these countries can not in anyway be underestimated since they played very important roles which lead to the surrender of Adolf Hitler and subsequently ending the second world war.

Why are they classified as super powers?

These permanent members on the UN security council have gotten extra powers vested in them to VETO certain decisions made by the council in their favour. These powers enables them to decide and determine as and when certain actions should be taken by the UN. Since the powers were vested in these countries, the country that have exercised these powers the least number of times is France, 16 times followed by China, 17 times also followed by the UK, 29 with the highest being the US and Russia who have used their veto power for 82 and 120 times respectively. This data was as of February 2022

The recent country to use it's veto powers is Russia when a resolution written by the United States and Albania condemning Russia's actions in Ukraine failed in the security council on Friday, 25th day of February 2022 due to Russia applying it's veto powers.

Some other countries emerging as potential super powers are Germany, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, India, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. This is mainly because of the possession of nuclear weapons by some of these countries and the others with their outstanding economic fortunes.

But do the world really need super powers?

I think the answer is NO.

Super powers of today are engaged in a power play in a form of a cold war in an attempt to prove who's more powerful. This is one of the main reasons why instability is now the order of the day. Countries like Yemen, Palestine, Syria, Somalia, Ethiopia and Ukraine are experiencing war simply because of the mascinations of these so called super power. They support conflicts with weapons delivered to their allies in war zones to take innocent human lives in exchange for power. This is unacceptable and I know you agree with me on this.

Please let me know your thoughts in the comments section below.








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