To be fair, those who founded the UN after World War II created the Security Council as the venue in which major powers would meet to determine the world’s fate. But even that has not worked out as planned, partly because the world of 2013 bears little resemblance to that of 1945.
平心而论，二战后联合国成立时，安理会是作为大国会晤决定世界命运的机构而设立的。但即便是这个安排，也没有按计划展开，部分是因为2013年的世界与1945年已经毫无相似之处。要不然如何解释英国和法国，而不是德国、日本或印度拥有永久否决权？