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The Missile Crisis seems to have revealed just how ineffective the UN was/is. The League of Nations had proven to be a pointless exercise in futility. Nation-States will aggressively pursue perceived historical and political corrections, especially regarding territorial claims, with force, when they hold an advantage. The UN was meant to be a reinforced barrier to war, and it was essentially laughed away by nuclear powers on the permanent “Security Council,” who decide just about everything on the planet, from systems to resources. More
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