Correct. The others are there for window dressing.


Japan and Germany are certainly nations who ought to have a major voice in world affairs via the United Nations...but they (along with Italy) had just been defeated in WWII, so naturally they got basically no voice at all at the time. There is no rational reason why they should not both now be members of a world Security Council if there is to be one at all.

We are living in an old world order that was cobbled together over 60 years ago out of the wreckage of a world war. It does not properly serve present realities.