UNSC Expansion

Laurence Caromba is sceptical about the practicability of the idea, and I think rightly so. The UNSC is too often deadlocked as it is, and the likelihood of superpowers like the United States and an emergent China allowing themselves to be hamstrung by lilliputians is essentially nil. Then there's the regional jealousy issue to consider; it is most unlikely that the rest of the world will stand idly by while the UNSC becomes even more heavily weighted in favor of Europe by the addition of Germany, while neither Britain nor France would ever willingly give up the one thing that does more than anything else to give them an outsized voice in world affairs. While there's a stronger case on both population and regionalist grounds for Indian membership than there is for Germany, the Muslim states likely won't stand for it, and Japanese membership will be opposed tooth and nail by the Chinese government. All in all, a nonstarter.