“Much has
already been said about the crisis of the UN system and international law. Yes,
we have no alternative framework through which states recognize each other’s
interests in preserving peace. And no, another system is unlikely to emerge
under current conditions – unless some catastrophic global crisis, akin to a
third world war, forces a reset. The present aggression against Iran may well
mark the final point: the old UN-centered system is now definitively a thing of
the past, shattered along with the Charter-based legal order that underpinned
it. Should we contribute to that destruction by withdrawing from the UN? I see
no sense in it. Perhaps one day a third world war will restore the alliance’s
functionality. For now, Trump has effectively buried it.” —Yevgeny Primakov (Former Russian
Prime Minister, RT February 28)
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