“Where is the security that the Security Council needs to guarantee?” President Volodymyr Zelenksy’s address to the UN Security Council was not only a powerful plea on behalf of his people, it delivered some uncomfortable home truths to his audience.
His anguish was directed at an international body dedicated to solving global problems by peaceful means. Yet that institution hosts a member state — one with a permanent seat on the Security Council no less — that has invaded a sovereign country and committed what is widely believed to amount to war crimes.
