This list here, on the UN website itself, is telling in regard how well those resolutions work and in whose favor, both recently and in the past:
https://www.un.org/depts/dhl/resguide/scact_veto_table_en.htm

Or in other words, here is a joke a family member sent to me recently:

"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
"A UN representative"
"But why?!"
"All they have to do is to condemn, to regret, and then do nothing at all."