Another conflict the UN can’t control: Cambodia and Thailand are once again locked in a border dispute, echoing past clashes that flare up, die down, and flare up again — all while the UN watches, issues statements, and does next to nothing meaningful to stop it.

Sound familiar? Look at Israel and Hamas — decades of resolutions, condemnations, and “peace talks,” but the violence keeps cycling back, worse each time. Russia and Ukraine? The UN’s strongest words and humanitarian appeals have done little to stop a full-scale invasion and the brutal cost in human lives.

This is an organization that was designed to prevent exactly this: wars between nations, unrestrained invasions, civilian suffering on massive scales. Yet time after time, the UN proves it’s little more than a stage for big speeches and watered-down resolutions that the world’s biggest powers can veto at will.

Maybe it’s time to admit that the UN, in its current form, is not the guardian of peace it was meant to be — just a bureaucracy where conflicts are “managed” with paperwork while real people pay the price.