User blog comment:JediSpectre117/Council not helping in ME3/@comment-2250460-20110923191355/@comment-118213-20110925223259

Ironreaper - that is entirely a matter of opinion, to which people can have feel quite entailed to feel the complete opposite. I know many people who for example view the real life EU in a similar way, where as I am a complete supporter. For the Council, the proof will be in the pudding, war may be a destructive divider - but it also always creates great unity - (two world wars, for example pushed Britain and France, one another greatest rival and enemy together) - it could push the turiuans and humanity together, to fight for a common cause against a common enemy.

But i completely see your point, the Council in Mass Effect is just about as powerful as the real life UN, without its wealthy member states agreeing, they (both) are powerless. The war is the greatest threat to sentient civilisation for 50,000 years, and it's coming. - As they say: Untied we stand, divided we fall...