does UN have any relevancy to current events what so ever ?. and if the let anyone else join the P5. then give another 20-30 40 years they will have to let the next economic/military power to in the club. then another then another then another
if everybody becomes member of p5 then obviously there is no point of being an elite club.
no i think that the p5 will keep everyone else out from joining them.
just my 10 cents
It was originally a post war P4 before an exception was made for China to enter.
India is the natural next entrant. And a precedent is already there.
I do believe though that we are not yet there.
Yes, militarily we should be given the seat by right.
But in terms of economy, social indices, and national infrastructure, we are simply not there yet.
Also, while I do not think it holds true for Britain, which rides pretty much piggy back on US shoulders, all other members of the P5, have a defense and arms industry that is largely home based and can thus sustain them in case of a protracted war.
We do not.
And we need to, before we can sit at the same table. So while I was enthused by what the US President had to say, inwardly I realize that the P5 is looking at India, monitoring India, keeping track of India.
But they (rightly) do not yet consider India ready, as an equal.