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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
The UN includes organizations and bodies such as the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. Without these, the US economy would collapse. Ergo, without the UN the US would collapse economically. In other words, without the UN you would probably lose your job.
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The reputations of these organizations aren't all that great. The IMF has earned status as the most hated organization in the world because they have a reputation of going into devoloping countries and completly destroying their economies by supplying loans with stringent conditions. The end result is the citizens of the affected countries are worse off than they were before the IMF came in.
The WTO hasn't been doing great things either. Russia, a country that is trying to strengthen their infrastructure and pull themselves out of the economic and social disaster that was the Soviet Union, is not a member of the WTO despite the fact that they really do need international trade to boost their economy. But the WTO has given in to pressure from OPEC and has set as a requirement for membership that Russia place export tariffs on their oil. OPEC can't control Russian oil production and export so they got the WTO to do it for them. Unfortunatly for OPEC and fortunatly for the rest of us, Russia wisely declined to have export tariffs on their oil.
The UN had a purpose at one time. It was a great tool for keeping the cold war cold. But the cold war is over, the Soviet Union is gone and the UN has become nothing more than a relic of a bygone era.