Mark Skarr Wrote:However, at the end of the day, the U.N., as it exists in the IST universe, will not survive the war. What comes out of the war, will be stronger and more capable. But, it will still be called “The United Nations.”It doesn't need to be the same organization, though. I'm thinking back to the time before and during WWII, where the League of Nations was doing its (ineffectual) best to stop the coming war, and the "United Nations" was the name that the Allies gave themselves. After the war, the LoN was gone and the UN had taken its place.
Could something like that happen after the Chinese War in the IST timeline? Certainly. Would it (or should it)? I don't know ... but I do like the historical parallelism.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012