DarzaR: You are truly misguided. UN have nothing to do with keeping "superpowers" in balance.
HijacK: Please re-take your 8 or 9th grade history class. The UN was created due to the inefficiency of the League of Nations. And UN never had the same objectives as the League of Nations because ensuring peace in the whole world would mean empowering the "white men's burden" ideology. Moreover, the UN stabilizes the situation among superpowers by providing them with a permanent seat on the security council. No one else outside the superpowers has a permanent seat. And the votes of the superpowers are over most of the other countries'.
You're serious now too? Literally you are claiming now, what after LN was totally failed with its agenda, only the great idea of providing a table for some guys, who, otherwise had not place to sit somewhere else and talk as i got, and amusing them with ability to vetoe eachother prevent them from start an imminent all-out war between them? "-We're starting WW3 nao! -Vetoed! -:((." Problem here is all such stuff doesnt work without NWO, WMB or whatewher you call it. In case "sacred UNSEC" will decide to act - it would be called NWO, WMB, Imperialism, any colour you like. And in case theyll veto eachother, but still act - it will be called the same. You cannot have an entity what is above sovereign countries, and then reject its proposals, claiming sovereignity. Its of no use then. But you can make it absolutely ineffective, and notice it only in cases when it fails, happily forgotten about its existence all other time. But its of no use again then.