On Monday, February 24, the third anniversary of what the media calls “Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine,” the United States shocked the world by voting against Ukraine’s United Nation’s resolution condemning the Russian invasion, which reiterated the same rhetoric that we have heard ceaselessly for three long years.
This put the United States and its reliable supporters (besides Ukraine, of course) like Israel and a couple of insignificant Pacific Island nations on the same side as Russia and its supporters, such as Belarus and North Korea. Overall the vote was ninety-three in favor, eighteen against, and sixty-five abstaining, with sixteen not voting. Hungary sided with the United States and Russia, while a few other nations that previously abstained, such as Burundi and Equatorial Guinea, voted against the resolution. With China, India, and many other large countries abstaining, a little over 25% of the global population is ruled by governments that voted “Yes” on the resolution. The American “no” vote represents a substantial change in policy under the second Donald Trump administration.
Indeed, this is a vast change in policy for the US. We, the people, have taken the situation out of the hands of the warmongers and put it into the hands of someone who wants to be known as a ”peacemaker”. This change was fully noted at the United Nations with the US voting with Russia not to have another anti-Russian resolution. Perhaps the same thing will happen in the security council of the UN. We can only hope, can’t we?