@kingat
Just reading the UN voting table, interesting bunch of allies.
I dont actually understand what UN is for. My questions are probably really stupid, but I honestly dont see the point of it.
They dont have any power over anything, do they? They just talk, is it basically a platorm where all countries in the world can meet up?
But what do they do everyday, seems extremaly expensive, who pays for it?
They had conference in NY and two days later in Geneva, are there two bases then?
The UN was "birthed" at the end of WW2 it was in its infancy to assure that conflict at such a global scale did not happen again, it was a place for countries to discuss, a forum of diplomacy and international conversation. It has grown in size but it does still do good work. The UN has peace keeping missions, it can deliver aid and mobilise troops for peace keeping/aid (like the ebola crisis in Africa), it's also a platform to discuss society like women's rights, global warming and other social issues.
How it's funded. Well it's complex, but basically in a nutshell every member pays a "membership fee" how it's calculated I don't quite now probably by GDP and so forth but the 2 biggest payers are the US who pays 22% of its "general cost" and 28% of its "peace keeping budget" followed by the UK as the second largest funder.
The UN also takes payments from foundations, Bill and Melinda Gates foundation being a big contributor.
One thing it does do is give an idea of how nations are allied politically, you can see this by their "voting patterns".
Whilst it has no immediate power as such, it can't declare war because that's against its main objective, it can offer aid, it can help broker peace and it can help economically developing countries.
The UN is not a war machine, its sole purpose was to prevent war. It can however apply sanctions such as global travel bans and financial penalties to nations.