The US and Russia were among 18 nations that voted against a Ukrainian-drafted resolution at the UN General Assembly that condemned Moscow and called for a Russian withdrawal from Ukraine on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion.
The resolution passed in a vote of 93-18, with 65 countries abstaining from voting. The US had been pressuring Ukraine to withdraw the resolution as the Trump administration is seeking better relations with Russia and an end to the proxy war.
The US introduced its own resolution that simply called for peace in Ukraine, but European countries were able to add an amendment that inserted anti-Russian language. After the amendment was added, the US abstained from voting, and the resolution passed in a vote of 93-8 with 73 abstentions.
In remarks to the UN, US Ambassador Dorothy Shea referred to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as an “escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war” and said the conflict started “11 years ago,” referring to the war that broke out in Ukraine following the US-backed coup in 2014 that ousted former President Viktor Yanukovych.
The language from Shea marks a significant shift from the Biden administration, which always referred to the war as an “unprovoked” Russian invasion despite the history of US and NATO involvement in Ukraine.
Shea said that the many UN resolutions that have demanded a Russian withdrawal from Ukraine have failed to end the conflict. “Since the start of the war 11 years ago, the United Nations has repeatedly condemned Russia’s blatant violations of the UN Charter. Multiple resolutions of the General Assembly have demanded that Russia withdraw its forces from Ukraine,” she said.
“Those resolutions have failed to stop the war. It has now dragged on for far too long, and at far too terrible a cost to the people in Ukraine, in Russia, and beyond,” Shea added.
Shea also called for an end to the war. “Generations of Ukrainians and Russians have died unnecessarily as the war has brought the world closer to a nuclear confrontation. The longer it continues, the greater the suffering for both nations. This war must end now,” she said.
Trump was supposed to have had his head blown off on live TV 7 months ago. That completely empty and unguarded rooftop overlooking the Trump campaign rally was no accident.
Like all dictators and dictators supporters the fear of assassination grows everyday.
We Americans have a different take on assassinations. We think of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King and John and Robert Kennedy.
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Has anyone seen a single documentary explaining who this Thomas Crooks shooter was? Anything on his life and background? They've completely memory-holed this man and inexplicably cremated his body. Why would that be?
Reich Chancellor Trump is doing a pretty good job of distracting the MAGA freaks from the quickly imploding geopolitical situation, judging by the reactions
BREAKING: ICC Asked to Investigate Biden and Blinken Over War Crimes Allegations
It's the first time a US-based organization has asked the court to probe a former president for complicity in alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.
https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-icc-asked-to-investigate
Finally
It could all be summarized to a possible conviction if it progresses that far… and possibly goes to history books…! So, Biden and Blinken would be FREE convicted felons just like Trump…!
I don’t expect anything to happen, but at least someone took a stand.
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Good!
China abstained and the US joined Russia to vote against.
My prediction is that Trump will offer Putin sanctions relief and a strategic partnership provided Russia joins the USA is isolating China.
In the next few months we will see whether Putin remains committed to China's project of building a multi-polar world order based in the Global South. Any predictions on wht Putin will do?
I doubt Putin wants to get on China’s bad side. They share a 2,600 mile border and nearly went to war in 1969 over territorial claims (that was why China made overtures to Nixon — but the claims weren’t settled with treaties until this century). There’s a lot of resource-rich territory that an unfriendly China could clearly — based on Russian military performance in Ukraine — take at will absent a nuclear response.
On the other hand, as the Russian empire continues to decline, the Russian regime will likely more and more face the choice of either finding another “great power” sponsor or facing increasingly imperious demands from China. And it’s not obvious which way they’ll decide to go.
Some of our fellow kibbetzers in the peanut gallery are convinced that Putin is a reliable partner for China and the Global South in the fight to replace G7 hegemony with a truly multi-polar world order. In a few months we will have reliable data to test that hypothesis.
Putin has to be disappointed that China won't back Russian aggression against Ukraine and that China's refusal to aid Russia diplomatically, economically or militarily forced him to get weapons and manpower from Iran and North Korea. China implicitly criticizes Russian revanchism and irredentism in Eur-Asia and China by emphasizing China's commitment to Ukraine's territorial integrity, a bedrock principle of China's foreign policy. And China has not recognized Russia's annexation of Crimea or any of the four south eastern oblasts.
Putin may prefer a sanctions relief followed by a pragmatic partnership with the USA to being China's junior partner.
I may be wrong. But in a few months we will know Putin's reactions to Trump's overtures and have a better idea of the limits of Putin's commitment to China and the Global South..
I don't think that would materialized…! Russia trade volume with BRICS especially China and India are larger than with US…! Besides sanctions have not done much to their economy…!
Remember the "good old day" when the GOP stood against Communists and dictators? Now the GOP openly supports them.
There’s never been a time when the GOP (and the Democrats) didn’t support dictators. You just got described as a communist dictator if you happened to not be one of the dictators the GOP (and the Democrats) supported and maybe happened to be an actual communist.
Fidel Castro bad, Anastasio Somoza good.
Syngman Rhee good, Kim Il Sung bad.
Ngo Dinh Diem good (until the US decided to replace him), Ho Chi Minh bad.
You forgot the biggie. Joe Stalin good, Adolf Hitler bad.
stalin and hitler were both horrible human beings
i would rather spit on their graves than have the slightest acquaintance with them
Remember the bad old days when the DNC stood for all and every war they coould get the uS involved in? They still do.
What good old days?
The GOP still doesn't support communists and both parties always supported dictators who served American interests.
And now the GOP supports a want a be dictator located in the USA.
Someone once said don’t worry about fascists taking over the United States. That happened in 1619. (The date the first African slaves landed at Jamestown).
The US is more communist now than todays Russia. The communists reside with the Democrats and the Fascist reside with the Republicans. In general of course. The GOP is divided between communist and fascist.
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So why do you think China always abstains on resolutions condemning Russia's aggression in Ukraine?
In a surprising diplomatic move, China and India, two countries that have carefully avoided condemning Moscow for launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine despite repeated pleas from Western allies, have voted in favor of a United Nations resolution that explicitly acknowledges “the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine.”
China and India vote for UN resolution with a reference to Russia’s ‘aggression’ against Ukraine. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/05/02/china-and-india-vote-for-un-resolution-with-a-reference-to-russias-aggression-against-ukra
That is my point. China and India are intrinsically part of the Global South. Putin identified with the Global North and aspired to be part of NATO and the EU. He was even part of the anti-China G8 until he was kicked out after Russia annexed Crimea. Only then did he align with China which has not backed Russia’s revanchist aspirations in Ukraine or in the former Soviet republics. . Now Trump seems ready to offer Putin sanctions relief and a junior partnership with the US. What will Putin do? How will he choose? In a few months we will probably know. And if Trump abandons Europe, will the EU repair relations with China? Stay tuned.
You have no point.
Australia and New Zealand are geographically located in the Global South, but identified with the Global North. Both countries condemned Russia's unjustified and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
China is Australia's and New Zealand's largest two-way trading partner, export market, and source of imports. Both countries have a free trade agreement with China.
Since 2022, the Australian Government has committed more than $1 billion in defense, economic and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. New Zealand's Parliament passed a unanimous motion to provide $2 million to support military healthcare for Ukraine, and $4 million to the drone capability coalition for Ukraine.
Australia and New Zealand also voted YES for international law, the need for a two-state solution, and for the UN resolution on Israeli settlements in the "occupied" Palestinian territory.
Now Trump is trying to divide the rest of the world as he has done in the US. If the orange turd abandons Europe, it will only confirm that the US is now a 'rogue state' like North Korea, Russia and Israel.
Trump seems to be making a big play for Putin. We may soon see whether Putin is primarily committed to a new multi polar world order partnering with China and the Global South or a resurgence of Russian/Soviet imperialism. You and I have no vote. In a few months Putin will have made his decision.
Trumpenführer seems to be kissing Putin's dictatorial ass.
In a few months Putin and Trump will still be war criminals.
The Great Betrayal: How America Abandoned the Kurds and Lost the Middle East. https://news.columbia.edu/content/great-betrayal-how-america-abandoned-kurds-and-lost-middle-east
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Trump defends decision to abandon Kurdish allies in Syria. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-syria-ap-top-news-international-news-politics-ac3115b4eb564288a03a5b8be868d2e5
That was some speech and all so true. I watched it a couple of days ago. It is worthwhile to rewatch it it was so good.
This is like a maze…! Why the fuck Europe pushing its confrontation with Russia when a Russia-Ukraine Peace Treaty could put them back to Industrialization with cheap Russian oil and gas…!!!???
Why would Russia screw over their new customers just to go back to unreliable old ones that they’ve just seen will largely be cut off the instant the EU doesn’t like something they’re doing? The Russia-to-Europe energy market is probably going to be pranged for a long time to come regardless of how things resolve in Ukraine. They’ve expanded energy sales to India, China, etc. Europe may be able to get in line … but it will also HAVE to start at the back of the line.
The European thinking, whether correct or not, is at least understandable: If Putin perceives himself as having substantially “won” in Ukraine, he might actually become the expansionist he hasn’t previously really been.
The problem for Europe is that Putin isn’t going to stand down without at least some fig leaf of supposed “victory.” He’s certainly not going to give up Crimea, and he can probably, when it’s all said and done, keep Luhansk and Donetsk. But they’re not going to give him Kherson or Zaporizhzhia, and he’s not willing/able to accept that yet.
Who are "they" that aren't going to give him Kherson or Zaporizhzhia? If Russia wants those territories then they're going to take them. And it seems that they do. No one is stopping them, short of a nuclear war in which we all die.
Russia’s been trying and failing to take them for more than three years now, with even less success than in Donetsk.
That has been the case because of the US/NATO intervention on Ukraine's behalf.
If we are seeing a US reorientation towards both Ukraine and NATO, this may lead to a decrease or even complete decoupling of Western support for Ukraine.
In that circumstance, I expect we will see not so much the Russian Federation start to "win" as we will see Ukraine stop perpetually "not losing" with NATO help.
This has been an even contest ONLY because NATO has bolstered a useful-idiot anti-RF proxy.
Russia has devoted a limited amount of resources to the conflict, and they are fighting in a way that limits civilian casualties and unnecessary destruction of infrastructure, while at the same time NATO has pumped massive resources into the conflict. So it's not surprising that this is taking as long as it has. And the Ukrainian military has been severely degraded. I would estimate that the Donbas will be fully under Russia's control by the end of this year, and then they can devote themselves to Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. I look for this to go on for years. Russia seems to be in no hurry. Patience, Thomas.
Ah, back to the “but Russia ISN’T REALLY TRYING YET” play.
Regimes don’t drag out wars for more than three years because they want to do so. Regimes drag out wars for more than three years because they’re not able to get what they want within three years.
And unlike some wars, this one will most likely end with neither side getting everything it wants.
Russia is very wisely conserving its resources in case a wider war breaks out. It's a smart move, considering all of the aggressive actions and rhetoric coming out of the west. This is existential for the Russians. They will do whatever they need to do to achieve their security goals, or die trying. And if they die then so do we. We have weaponized Ukraine to go against Russia, so the Russians are going to neuter Ukraine, whatever it takes to do so. My sympathy goes out to both of them. My contempt goes out to the western leaders who instigated this tragedy.
The western “leaders” in question certainly deserve your contempt.
But trying to make Russia’s abject military failure in Ukraine into anything other than what it is doesn’t speak to the character of western “leaders.” It just reveals that a large part of your analysis approach is “wishing will make it so.”
Actually, my analysis approach is listening to folks a lot more knowledgeable than you are about this situation.
So US dragged Afghanistan war for 20 years because they couldn't achieve their goals…?! Or was it because the CIA opium money kept flowing to Langley…?!
What is it that you think the Russian regime is exporting from the pieces of Ukraine they’ve got that would be worth the cost they’re paying to hold, and very slowly expand, it?
Not A Thing…! Russia isn’t there for minerals…!
PEYSHNC is the the licensee plate wording on my bimmer…! :-}
… I didn't say that…! And how that anyone know that Russia cannot handle both…?!
Maybe they can … at some point in the future. But it doesn’t seem like they would do so in the near term, at the expense of servicing more reliable and less fussy customers.
Especially when they’re going to have to do a certain amount of rebuilding infrastructure both in the energy sector and, where Europe is concernd, in the logistics sector to deliver it. And they’re going to have to do that rebuilding in a tight labor market. More than a million Russians have fled the country since 2022, some unknown number have been killed in Ukraine since 2022, and the birth rate has plummeted to 20% lower than that of the US since 2022 (in the latter country there’s a lot of hand-wringing about “demographic decline;” if it really is an economic death sentence of some kind, Russia’s in a hurt locker).
"supposed victory" You gotta be kidding. Country with a $3 trillion GDP has got NATO with a $33 T GDP suing for terms … and in a manner distinctly cowardly, … disgraceful.
Measured in terms of purchasing power parity, the Russian economy is more like $6 trillion. According to the World Bank, in 2023 the size of Russia's economy surpassed Germany's and Japan's, moving them into 4th place in the world, trailing China, the United States and India. But you're still right, it's disgraceful.
Because the EU is also expantionist. I would like to agree it's like a Maze. It's throwing-many-people into consternation.
Honestly the stupidity comes to mind… The imperialistic ambition of Europe is long gone…!
Here, is my point: EU’s idea was to create a union of Nations to compete trade wise. The EU also wants rare earth minerals. Dina, from MSChannel said today. The EU wants to take nations from the former Soviet/Russian influence and expand. I remember France’s last election where campaign issue was (paraphrasing) ” Taking Jobs from Washing Machine makers in France & having them made in Poland”.
https://tass.com/politics/1918501 Russia praises US resolution at UNSC as ‘starting point’ for Ukrainian settlement — envoy
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/24/us-opposes-ukraine-territorial-integrity-in-un-vote-2-a88150
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/24/ukraine-russia-un-resolution-trump
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160396 UKRAINE LIVE: Diplomatic debate steps up a gear as world marks three years since full-scale Russian invasion
https://press.un.org/en/ukraine
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1l/k1l10bx1q3 General Assembly: Eleventh Emergency Special Session (Resumed: 20th Plenary meeting)
President Trump Holds a Press Conference with President Emmanuel Macron of France
Another PR show by Macghon…! Traveling all the way to White House and going back to Fghance empty handed…!
You only think in dollars, don't you?
No…! wrong thought…! empty handed doesn't only mean money…!
The vote showed how desperate is Trump to finish the war in Ukraine and pivot to China. He is not good at geopolitical calculations. Russia will never betray China, at least, as long as Putin is the head of the state. War against China is a war against essential Russian interests in Far East.
Israel voted together with U.S. for different reasons: 1 there is a hope that Trump could agree to start a war against Iran. 2 Israel people, unlike EU people, feel deeply negative about Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
Former USSR republics, with exception of Baltic republics and Moldova, either abstained or didn't participated while all NATO countries with exception of U.S. and Hungary (who also voted against) supported the resolution.
BRICS predictably abstained. Only Egypt voted for the resolution, which is also not a great surprise though, of course, Egypt's readiness to betray everyone is not good for BRICS' reputation.
So we see a divided world where Trump with his team are playing their own game.
Yes, Trump is playing his emperor game. he wants to move Russia away from BRICS on the Western side and then he will go after Russia and betray them. Trump is playing for Trump.
If BRICS abstained from the deal it means it it not worth a penny to start with.
Yes, Trump's idea is to separate Russia from China. Sure this his idea is shared by many, but it is unachievable unless some drastic changes happen in China or in Russia.
We don't know how China will behave when it gets more powerful. Maybe some people at the top of Chinese state hierarchy start to think about subjugating other countries and dominating the world. It is quite possible too. Then it would be helpful if other major powers have a good understanding among themselves and coordinate their strategies to prevent such a scenario. At the moment we are far away from that but some twenty or thirty years later, the world can be different.
The devision of the world and multipolarity is happening now and Trump can’t stop it no matter what he’s doing or planning to do…!
So proud, again, to be american eh kiddies?
Martin Luther King Jr. famously stated that the United States government was "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today" in his 1967 speech titled "Beyond Vietnam,"
Golly i wonder why Haiti voted against this? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$?
Never trust the west, especially the us of plutocracy
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-war-will-only-end-russias-terms-lavrov-says
It's good to be Russian.
https://sonar21.com/trump-and-europe-fail-to-realize-that-russia-has-a-vote/
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If any Western businesses are interested in Donbas. Give me a call for some local knowledge. Happy to help. It's a wonderful part of the world. Donetsk is a beautiful regional capital city. Huge opportunities. Looks like the US is going to get most of it though. Clever guys.
Is Elise Stefanik not confirmed yet? … or too chicken-shit to publicly cast the vote or resign?
The "11 year old war" comment is interesting … it correctly characterizes the issues as not having come "out of the blue" in Feb 2022; but it also means that the "war" was going on for all of Trump's first term. Why didn't he end it then?
I'm waiting for him to slip up and say "If I was president, that wouldn't have happened" about something that he was actually the president when that something happened.
At the time Trump also believed that it would be possible to defeat Russia using simultaneously the proxy war in Ukraine and total economic war.
I doubt this is about "defeating Russia" … I think that like almost all non-defensive wars, it's mostly about money: direct and indirect weapons sales, fencing Russian gas and oil and foodstuffs off Europe to USUK benefits, beggaring German industry to the benefit of USUK industries, etc. …