Meaning of "The UN rush to mandate war totally ruled out any alternatives."

Question

I didn't get the exact meaning of the sentence;

1. "The UN rush to mandate war totally ruled out any alternatives.".

Can I paraphrase it as;

2. "The UN which rush to mandate war totally ruled out any alternatives."

Or;

3. "The UN let the war outbreak because there is another option."

Answer 1

The original sentence can be logically split as follows:

• The UN rush
  • to mandate war (which rush?)
• totally ruled out
  • any alternatives. (what did the rush rule out)

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Your sentence number 2 should be:

"The UN which rushed to mandate war totally ruled out any alternatives."

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I think that your sentence 3 is not conveying the original meaning. The way I understand it, the original meaning is:

The UN let the war outbreak even though there might have been another options.