From Kiev to Gaza: Who runs the Security Council in 2025: law or veto?

In 2025, the Security Council is no longer an arena for the protection of world peace as it was planned eight decades ago. Instead, it has become an open theater of power struggles managed by just five countries through a weapon called the veto. From Kiev to Gaza, from Damascus to Khartoum, the same scene is repeated: international laws are suspended, justice is strangled, and resolutions are buried in the veto chamber.

In Gaza alone, the United States repeatedly vetoed resolutions in 2023 that called only for a humanitarian ceasefire, even though 120 countries in the General Assembly voted in favor of stopping the fighting.

In Ukraine, Russia has shot down seven draft resolutions in the Security Council since February 2022, including one that was supported by 11 out of 15 members, but the Russian veto was enough to bury it. What is even more strange is that Moscow - a party to the war - held the presidency of the Security Council during some months of the war by alphabetical rotation ... so the accused sat on the judge's bench.

After a year and a half of war, the death toll has exceeded 20,000 and the number of displaced people has reached 12 million - the largest displacement crisis in the world today - yet the Security Council has not issued a single binding resolution to stop the war. Why? Because it is a war that does not threaten the interests of the adults.

Because paralysis has become the norm within the Council, the General Assembly has stepped in as a moral alternative through the Uniting for Peace mechanism, and has met 13 times since 2022 to discuss resolutions that have been vetoed.


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