Argument: UN veto causes perceptions of the UN as a tool of the West

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• Adrian Hamilton. “The UN Has Come to Be Seen As a Tool of the West”. The Independent/UK. December 13, 2007 – “In the West, the UN is regarded as largely a good thing, with its many arms dedicated to helping refugees, resolving conflicts and, if necessary, to stepping in with the blue helmets to keep the peace.

In other parts of the world, however, the UN is no longer regarded in this benign light. Indeed, in a substantial part of the developing world it has come to seem an instrument of western oppression and US hegemony – a club of the big boys intent on bullying smaller countries in the interests of Washington and its European allies.”