No. It gets all the nations together to talk, even when they are grandstanding by recalling their ambassadors to the countries where they need them most. They also hammer out useful treaties from time to time, and have agencies which do a lot of good in the world. They get the major powers talking whenever a big crisis comes up. That sort of thing is not automatic you know, consider the many total failures to communicate throughout history.

The UN is not a world government. Even if it were, it would not be able to solve all the world's problems. But it certainly is not useless.

Asking if the UN is useless is like asking if Democracy is useless because corrupt or incompetent politicians keep getting elected. Consider the bottom line, the world without a UN would be worse.

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