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Originally Posted by gunnut
I guess France was in because of the old imperial secret club left over from the 19th century. France still held substancial colonial holdings after WW2. Also the US and Britain felt bad for the Frenchies. 
UN:
US formed it.
UK earned a seat.
Soviet Union earned a seat.
China earned a seat.
France was along for the ride.  |
Sorry, India earned a seat a long time back. The simple fact is that the UN SC is a fricking arbitrary construct. The China seat went from the ROC to the PRC once the US decided that a counterweight to the USSR was required in the form of the PRC. The UN SC will be always used to demonstrate the primacy of the US and the west, even while western conservatives throw contempt on the UN as an institution, without understanding what a powerful tool it is vis a vis less powerful countries.