txags92 said:
Rossticus said:
That is a bit of a slippery slope even if I agree that they deserve it. There are more than a couple of times more than 50% of the world was against the US on an issue and could have tried to do this to us.
I don't want to wreck this thread but which former American territory would have a claim to our seat?
There are only 4 members of the United Nations that were a former territory of the United States with the Philippines becoming a territory following the Spanish American war but since they were independent and a founding member of the United Nations in 1945, they were never a US territory at any time while we were a veto wielding member of the Security Council.
That leaves Micronesia, Palau, and Martial Islands as other possible claimants. But those nations were only formally administered by the United States after the UN placed them in a trust in 1947, after the UN's founding.
Now if we Texit, I might consider trying to stake that claim.
But to semi-keep this in topic, I think a bunch of parliamentary games to revoke Russia's Security Council seat inherited from the USSR would enrage Russia and would be blocked by China who would fear us trying to return their seat back to Taiwan who held it until 1971.