Was the League of Nations likely to fail because of inherent flaws?

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Was the League of Nations likely to fail because of inherent flaws?

Yes

The League was always likely to fail because it had many inherent flaws and was too weak.

The League was restricted by its lack or/and inability to properly enforce sanctions that would actually hurt countries. Without America's backing the League was weak. America at that time was the world's biggest trading nation and the League's sanctions would not apply to them. This meant these sanctions would hit smaller countries much harder than they would the lager ones because America traded with all the larger countries. If sanctions were enforced on a larger country they could probably survive by just increasing their trade with America. Also, the countries of the League needed to trade with all the larger countries and therefore it made it much harder for trade sanctions to be upheld, as any sanctions would hit the countries enforcing them just as hard. However, it was much easier to enforce trading sanctions on a smaller country, as its trade was insignificant compared to that of the larger countries. Even when the League imposed trade sanctions on countries, countries that had their own self-interest