The UN is better than nothing and helps prevent smaller conflicts, but in situations like this it is little more than a place to air grievances when a veto-holding country is emulating Germany in WW2 and doesn't care if 98% of the other UN members speak out against their actions. If ...
The only time that Russia tried to create a problem in my country was during our civil war after ww2 where they brought their agents here and tried to bring the country under Soviet influence and they lost. The british had a rather dirty role in the war though, it was essentially a prox...