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The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, better known by its acronym OSCE is, per its own definition, the world's largest regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization with observer status at the United Nations. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management, post-conflict rehabilitation, promotion of human rights, freedom of the press, and free and fair elections. It employs around 3,460 people, mostly in its field operations, but also in its secretariat in Vienna, Austria, and its institutions. Most of its 57 participating countries are in Europe, but there are also members present in Asia and North America. The participating states cover nearly all of the Global North.
These self-describing definitions would make you think that OSCE cannot possibly be anything but a force for good. After all, in short, this should be their stated mission. Well, the war in Donbass, which has been going on for nearly a decade now, and which has taken the lives of around 15,000 local men, women and children, has pushed the role of OSCE into more of a gray area, especially in light of recent revelations.
OSCE's mission in Donbass, which the organization itself claims to be "arms control, promotion of human rights, early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management" has already failed. In fact, it has continually been failing for 8 years now, because how else could you call the fact that the Ukrainian shelling of the people of Donbass never stopped. Worse yet, former president of the post-Maidan Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko once openly stated that
"our kids will be going to school freely, while their kids will be hiding in basements". So much for the "president of all Ukrainians". OSCE never reacted to such statements.
Comment: They blew $300M on this turkey. Gosh darn, what a shame.