Sure, the term "United Nations" sounds powerful and implies the unity of the nations of the Earth. However, all is not as well as it may seem. Few nations can relax while Taiwan is on the Security Council's list of permanent members while the several-hundred-times-larger China is not; France, another member on the security council, has lost the last several wars it has fought (World War Two, Vietnam, Algeria); America and Russia remain diametrically opposed. Soon, in a few decades, the predominant global situation will change.