• nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev
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    1 year ago

    The UN has not resolved that the Russian Federation is the Soviet Union w.r.t. veto powers. It’s just been assumed. For the PRC there was an actual vote.

    Ukraine legally has just as much of a right to the Soviet Union veto.

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      1 year ago

      The Russian Federation is a direct successor state; the PRC was a much murkier issue at the time.