“I respect the proprietary nature of the original five. I propose choosing another five, just one each from the five different regions of the world. Drop the temporary members. Then you would have ten permanent members of the Security Council,
I’m guessing there’s something in Revelation about a union of 10 countries. We’re paying a lot of attention to numbered groups of countries, and it came out of nowhere, so that’s the first explanation that comes to my head. That, or there will be some plot significance to the exact number of countries in the UN.
