At the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, President Biden focused most of his speech on Ukraine and accused Russia of violating the UN Charter by launching the war.
“Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenets of the United Nations Charter — no more important than the clear prohibition against countries taking the territory of their neighbor by force,” he said.
Biden’s comments highlight US hypocrisy on the issue as Washington currently occupies a major portion of eastern Syria despite the Syrian government’s opposition. The US also supports Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and its blockade of Gaza, and Saudi Arabia’s war and blockade on its neighbor Yemen.
Biden said that the US will continue to support Ukraine in its fight against Russia based on the principle that “you cannot seize a nation’s territory by force.”
The president also accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of making “reckless” nuclear threats. Earlier in the day, Putin ordered a partial mobilization and warned Russia could use nuclear weapons if its “territorial integrity” was “threatened.”
“President Putin has made overt nuclear threats against Europe and a reckless disregard for the responsibilities of the non-proliferation regime,” Biden said.
US support for Ukraine in its war against Russia has escalated tensions to a point where many experts and officials believe there is a greater risk of nuclear war today than there was during the Cold War. But the US shows no sign of backing down on its policy of supporting Ukraine, and Putin’s moves on Wednesday signaled a Russian escalation in Ukraine.
It’s a stiff stick up our butt all the way to Hell.
LOL!
Did the Israelis walk out?
do the israelis even show up at a UN general assembly?
“At UN General Assembly, Biden Says Russia Can’t Take a Country’s Territory by Force”
Joey Biden is a menace to the world.
Then what is the US doing in Syria??
I don’t know but I’m sure the US is not planning on annexing Syria.
But occupying it in perpetuality is different.
Julio is splitting hairs and hiding behind Washington’s wording because he’s got nothing else.
Of course not mentioning two decades of occupying Afghanistan. Occupying Iraq. Arming Saudi Arabia and UAE when they bomb Yemen year after year.
US will leave Syria eventually but not on your terms plus you won’t be happy even if they leave today. You aren’t antiwar, you are Anti US 100%
Look at you, WARS R U.S. You blame US for everything that goes on in the world. We are both at different levels of discussion. Not sure why we even waste time disagreeing with each other.
I blame the US for what the US deserves blame for. And you are out of your mind if you think if they left Syria today, I wouldn’t be happy. I know us killing 20 million people since WW2 if fine with you, but not with me. So, of course we are at different levels of discussion. You’re pro killing.
That’s probably because about 80% of the conflict around the world owes its existence to US interference in the internal affairs of other countries. It’s time for America to mind its own business, and leave others to mind their’s.
No.. just stealing 80% of the oil and grain.
Yes, like they did in Irak, right?
Dumb comment, Julio. For YEARS we have seen the U.S. annexing Syria through its communist Kurd proxies. That it’s under the Kurd name doesn’t change the fact that it’s U.S. control. They burn Syria’s wheat fields, they steal the northern water supply, they ethnically cleanse Arab villages.
You: “But it’s not officially under the U.S. name, so not the same thing, nyah.”
By the way, Russia is taking RUSSIAN territory, built by Russians. You don’t claim that occupied eastern Syria is American territory, do you?
And of course you won’t mention that Kiev has been bombing Donbass for seven years, killing thousands, driving more than a hundred thousand people from their homes, before Russia stopped them.
In 1953, President Eisenhower gave the OK to a coup in Iran. That same year he gave the OK for the same in Syria. Obviously, Syria is still a work in progress.
They got their way eventually. The CIA were big fans of Hafez Assad and supported his son in the aftermath of his death. It wasn’t until the Obama regime that that applecart got upset.
Yes, Maher Arar, Canadian citizen, experienced US “rendition” hospitality at an Assad black site at the service of his ally W’s neocon regime.
They don’t need to – once they get all the oil they want, they might leave.
Spreading democracy, lol!
This is a clear example of: Do as I say and not as I do…
He sounds familiar here like some “anti-war-folks-but-only-on-technicalities.”
At the core of this war was not Russian annexation but the Minsk II agreement by which the inhabitants of two eastern Ukrainian Oblasts were allowed to vote on some degree of self-government which the Zelensky government denied them. This war could have been averted.
Now the inhabitants of these regions will vote on joining Russia instead of remaining in Ukraine.
Yes, Poroshenko, when no longer president, admitted he only signed the Minsk agreement in 2015 in order to lie. It was “to buy time to make our army strong again”. So they always planned to invade Donbass.
And France and Germany who negotiated the Minsk agreement put no pressure on Kiev to stop the killings. Neither did Washington.
“Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenets of the United Nations Charter — no more important than the clear prohibition against countries taking the territory of their neighbor by force,” he said.
But if they aren’t your neighbor you can bomb them into the stone age and sanction them into economic misery. And never mind about how we treat our neighbors. Ask Cuba.
But Cuba is such a serious menace to our everyday lives! I mean, the horror!
Says the biggest terrorist in the world – US!
Very funny, next!
Biden was the chairman of the Senate Committe on Foreign Relations, and blocked expert testimonies that would show there was no proof of Iraq having “weapons of mass destruction”.
He and Hillary Clinton were the ones who made support for the invasion bipartisan.
NATO took Yugoslav territory BY FORCE.
The US much prefers regime change to border change. For example, the US found it prudent to overthrow the elected President of Ukraine, along with the recently elected members of Ukraine’s Parliament who supported him, to gain control of the country.
This seems especially true when the country du jour has large quantities of energy, rare metals and minerals, or has large investments in the foreign economy that are controlled by American citizens.
That said, I think it would be difficult to find anyone seated at the UN General Assembly that doesn’t already know this.
They go there for the drinks and the chicks. Especially the chicks.
Kosovo.
There is a scant 16 years in the history of our country that we have not been at war somewhere.
In all fairness, there are two principles under international law that are on the surface contradictory, but are in fact complimentary:
One is the principle of sovereignty and territorial integrity
Second, right of people on self-determination.
In order for the first principle to function, a state must under the law give all people same rights; cannot legally discriminate against a group on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, etc. Basically, the principle
assumes that a state’s territory is sivereign if all of its people are equally protected,
Second principle applies when a state does not treat it’s citizens equally, and institutes laws that discriminate, persecute segments of population, threatens them politically, and phyysicalmy. Instead of allowing such state to keep the territory but eliminate the undesirable population— a self determination via referendum is a means of granting people the right over their territory, taking away sovereignity of the state.
Minsk agreement was the effort to keep Ukrainian territorial integrity, Refusall to implement it, and military attacks on population that Ukraine did not want integrated — meant the end of territorial integrity approach. And the beginning of self-determination process,
It is one or the other — depending.
The lack of self awareness on the part of the US / NATO is stunning.
“At UN General Assembly, Biden Says Russia Can’t Take a Country’s Territory by Force:”
Philippines, Puerto Rico, Many parts of the Western US, in the past and more recently covert and overt operations: Vietnam, Panama, Many South American countries, Granada, Serbia, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Libya and Lebanon to name a few.
More recently the US has made efforts to control the world through pushing dissidents in many countries worldwide through the US State Department.
Now lets get to the heart of the issue: The Revolution of Dignity also known as the Maidan Revolution and the Ukrainian Revolution, took place in Ukraine in February 2014. The American State Department actively overthrew the elected government of Ukraine. The prime mover of the event was NEOCON Victoria Nuland who’s grandfather was Ukrainian.
America through it’s proxy NATO has pushed itself further and further east and now was and is trying to take Ukraine and Georgia. Part of this at the urging of warmonger Senator John McCain when he was alive.
Senile angry Joey Biden is a hypocrite and liar. America uses naked force and coercion to take territory and hold it with proxy puppets who after installed bend to it’s will.
LOL and my thought also
Truth, Justice, the American Way…………………
Beat me to it. Well done.
All those countries sat up, and said WTF did he say?
There are news reports of lines of cars of Russian citizens trying to get out of Russia. Russia should not stop them. Let them go. Do not allow them to reenter. Either they have soaked up the propaganda from outside sources, blinding them to what is at stake, or they just don’t get it. Or, they are OK for Russia to be humiliated, provoked by the West. Not the same Russians that took on the NAZIs during WWII.
CONGRATULATIONS, YOU HAVE BEEN MOBILIZED!!
You are ready to join Putin’s Army.
We’ve been waiting for you.
I wish we could get more info on why these people are leaving. Is conscription the only reason? Or is fear of war with NATO playing a role?
To be fair, Russia is facing multi-nations in defense of Ukraine; including but not limited to CIA, Mossad, Mi6, satellite tracking and billions of dollars in weapons aid.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/russia/russian-anti-war-protests-the-3rd-generation/
Russian anti-war protests and the third generation. Martin Armstrong.
The link makes sense to me. The war between the US and Russia, which is playing out in Ukraine, is due to the mindsets of aging leaders who seem to be following an agenda that was formed long ago. The Euromaidan Coup was classic “color” revolution strategy. The secessions of Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk (and South Ossetia before that) are, in my opinion, a response intended to stop that kind of thinking in Washington and New York City (CFR).
I see, controlling a small part of Syria- to protect its residents from one of more murderous regimes of recent times- is synonymous in your mind with what the Russians are doing in Ukraine. Ok, dude.
And what’s this Israeli “occupation of the West Bank and its blockade of Gaza”? You can’t occupy your own land, dude. The only Arab polity to control Judea and Samaria (aka the “West Bank”), which annexed the territory and remained there for 19 years until they joined in the merriment of the expected massacre of Jews in Israel. And why does Israel maintain such a blockade- do you think it could have anything to do with the tens of thousands of rockets Hamas has launched into Israel since it took control of the Gaza Strip? Strange that you didn’t mention the Egyptian blockage of Gaza, but I guess such a balanced report that wouldn’t fit the narrative you want to portray.
Jordan maintained control of Judea and Samaria for 19 years, albeit with very little international recognition (but also no objection from the residents of the officially Judenrein territory). Say, did you even know that Jordan disavowed its illegal annexation of said territory? Moreover, according to the terms of the Mandate for Palestine, to which the UN is bound, the Jewish state (aka Israel) is the legitimate sovereign of the territory- so it cannot “occupy” it. A more accurate, and less emotive, term for the territory would be “disputed territory”, but of course, you are not interested in accuracy or the most basic sense of fair play.
You, sir, are an intellectual poseur and a fraud.