Besides, the UNSC has acted strongly and forcefully in some cases바카라”Iraq in 1990, for instance, but not in Rwanda in 1994, and certainly not in Gaza in 2023바카라”inviting the charge of double standards. That has whittled down the legitimacy of international norms enforced by the Security Council. Further, the Security Council is often paralysed when crises involve allies of the P5 (the five permanent members mentioned earlier), as in the Syrian civil war, the Israel-Palestine conflict and the Ukraine conflict, each vetoed by Russia, the United States and Russia, respectively.