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Commentary: The UN should kick Russia off the Security Council

Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya attends a United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the situation between Russia and Ukraine on Jan. 31, 2022, in New York City.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has changed the world. While Ukrainians try to defend themselves and call for collective self-defense, millions of people in the free world plead for action. The post-World War II international political order is failing. But it has not yet fallen: The United Nations still can take action to regain moral standing and to secure the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine and all other member states.

The U.N.’s main purpose is to maintain international peace and security, but it did not prevent the full-scale brutal war now happening

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