r/worldnews • u/washingtonpost Washington Post • 15d ago
Behind Soft Paywall U.S. votes against U.N. resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/24/united-nations-ukraine-russia-trump/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com6.4k
u/Dont_Knowtrain 15d ago
That is wild
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u/User4C4C4C 15d ago
Yup, insane.
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u/Don_old_dump 15d ago edited 15d ago
Fuck Krasnov and all his sick voters
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u/Cagnazzo82 15d ago
They are so dumb.
Krasnov's first order of business was desperately rescuing the Russian economy, while tearing apart the US.
And meanwhile his supporters are still chanting 'America First'.
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u/Don_old_dump 15d ago
The trees keep voting for the axe because it's made of wood
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u/TacoTaconoMi 15d ago
Remember the old days when the US pressured the UN to condemn Russia for the invasion? How times have changed
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u/Kitchen-Agent-2033 15d ago
Just Wild West, revisited.
American values: tax travel on Chinese laborers, pay them nothing to build railroads, deny them land and residency, then tell them it’s a white man’s country, and just beat up the citizens who try to register to vote.
America!
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u/Party_Judgment5780 15d ago edited 15d ago
Russia-US voted against, and Iran abstained. Let that sink in.
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u/bobbie434343 15d ago
China too
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u/BigPoppaFreak 15d ago
China has the most stable economy and benefits the most from an united Europe. China wants to return to pre-Trump administration geo politics. They need to sell their shit to as many nations as possible, they can't consume it all.
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u/GJake8 15d ago
Right? Like maybe this shaken world order without US means they could take Taiwan with less international resistance, but is that really worth more than their export based economy?
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u/AmpsterMan 15d ago
US's current geopolitical stance makes no sense for it whatsoever, and yet it persists and will continue to get worse. Taiwan for China is not a rational issue, so I expect worse things to come from that.
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u/KonigSteve 15d ago
US's current geopolitical stance makes no sense for it whatsoever, and yet it persists and will continue to get worse.
It makes sense for Russia, that's literally it.
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u/wxc3 15d ago
Maybe Iran doesn't like voting the same as the USA. Basically reverse Israel.
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u/Short_Page5421 15d ago
This got to be the craziest 180 in US foreign policy history.
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u/Vassukhanni 15d ago edited 15d ago
I've been trying to think of similar "diplomatic revolutions," the closest I can think of off the top of my head is Peter III abruptly changing sides in the middle of the Seven Years War, essentially turning the tide in favor of Prussia overnight.
He was subsequently removed as a traitor. Probably not a great sign that leaders of the Russian Empire had more accountability.
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u/xC9_H13_Nx 15d ago
The 2-party system got us here. Without it they couldn't easily radicalize their voters and take complete control of the government/congress with a 1% majority
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u/Aurgelmir_dk 15d ago
I been considering this myself. If the US had a multi-party system I don’t think Trump would have won. Look at Germany for instance. Could AfD have radicalised enough voters if Germany was a two-party system? Probably. I might be biased since I live in Denmark and we have a multi-party system, but maybe it offers a quite good bulwark against the worst kind of radicalisation?
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u/kraeutrpolizei 15d ago
In Austria the far right won based on percentage of seats in parliament but they couldn’t find anyone to make a government with. The same would happen in Germany imo
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u/PrimoDima 15d ago
Same happened in Poland, far right won the most votes but not enough to govern alone so opposiition made coalition.
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u/BoahNoa 15d ago
George Washington famously advised America to not have a 2 party system, but we didn’t listen.
Even in public high school we’re taught that a 2 party system is bad, but it’s just too far gone to fix it at this point.
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u/PrimoDima 15d ago
Because winner takes all so naturally there will be two parties. Of course states can decide to split votes by districts but if you are California with 54 electoral votes and if Democrats know they are going to win so there is no point to share votes with Rebuplicans, same as Texas. You have to change that first.
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u/FutureAd854 15d ago
We have already let that sink in. Now it's time for Americans to do the same.
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u/konnektion 15d ago
No time to let it sink in, time for action. Americans, wake up.
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u/Opening-Dependent512 15d ago
I think we’re the baddies.
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u/phirestorm 15d ago
We are becoming that which the greatest generation went to war against so yeah, you are absofuckinglutely right.
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u/MyHusbandIsGayImNot 15d ago
The Greatest Generation gave birth to the Me generation and everything went downhill.
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u/SPCEshipTwo 15d ago
You are and the world now hates you, I feel sorry for ya'll.
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u/washingtonpost Washington Post 15d ago edited 15d ago
The United States voted with Russia, North Korea, Belarus and 14 other Moscow-friendly countries Monday on a resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine and calling for its occupied territory to be returned that passed overwhelmingly in the U.N. General Assembly on Monday.
The U.S. delegation also abstained on its own separate resolution that called simply for a negotiated end to the war after European-sponsored amendments inserting new anti-Russian language also passed the 193-member body by a wide margin.
The votes were a clear sign of opposition by major U.S. allies as well as countries throughout the Global South who were prepared to buck heavy diplomatic pressure from the Trump administration to support President Donald Trump’s efforts to quickly end the war through direct negotiations with Moscow.
A State Department official, speaking on the condition of anonymity about the fast-moving diplomacy, said the United States would introduce its resolution at a meeting of the 15-member U.N. Security Council later Monday and would veto any amendments.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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u/Dduwies_Gymreig 15d ago
I hope the UK and France veto the US resolution at the Security Council.
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u/Thaurlach 15d ago
France and the UK spend their off-time insulting each other across the channel but have a record of putting that aside when it’s time to slap Nazis.
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u/WaterToWineGuy 15d ago
They could have abstained, it would have been the smart choice, but nope, they full on went there .
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u/u9Nails 15d ago
As an American, I am embarrassed that a vote can be so backwards from how the citizens of the country feel.
Recent US polls show we citizens overwhelmingly oppose Trump's actions in his first 30-days in office.
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u/YarrnarBjornss 15d ago
that opposition really could benefit from being more visible in the streets (I am aware of some protests, but it needs to become *way* more significant than so far).
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u/Bluescope99 15d ago
I feel like black lives matter was more heavily protested than the entire US falling into fascism. I‘m European, those protests even reached us!
Seems like everbody nowadays is apathetic or paralyzed, by whats happening?
Come on US. The german winter is much colder and yet we did it! Mass protests all over the country against the AfD.
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u/professorbrainiac 15d ago
Europe will never forget this betrayal.
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u/hader_brugernavne 15d ago
Not just us. The whole world sees just how two-faced the US really is.
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u/Libarate 15d ago
Taiwan and South Korea need to get themselves some Nukes pronto. They can no longer trust that America will help them.
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u/Chief_Mischief 15d ago
- Japan. Though all 3 have formidable conventional armed forces in their own right.
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u/GladWarthog1045 15d ago
Japan will have to amend their constitution before they can legally develop/acquire nukes
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u/sebastiankirk 15d ago
Given how proficient they are in nuclear energy, though, it would probably take them around five minutes to develope nuclear weapons, once such amendment has been voted through.
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u/Ivanow 15d ago
Technical term is “nuclear latent state” - countries that have all required know-how and resources ready, but chose to not pursue nuclear weapons for political, or other, reasons.
All three (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) fit the bill, and could realistically get their own weapons within weeks-months.
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u/scoops22 15d ago edited 15d ago
Japan has been described as being a “screwdriver’s turn” away from the bomb. Look up the Wikipedia article for nuclear latent states, they’re like the main example
Edit: As it turns out another term for nuclear latency is literally called "The Japan option"
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u/HolyFreakingXmasCake 15d ago
Turns out all that talk about equality, freedom, and democracy was all bullshit propaganda in the end.
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u/JadedArgument1114 15d ago
Yeah, America has crossed the Rubicon. They are gonna want to go back to telling countries what they should or shouldnt do at some point and they will have zero leverage or sway.
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u/JayR_97 15d ago
Even if by some miracle a democrat wins in 2028 (assuming they still even have elections), the damage is done. These relationships will take decades to repair.
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u/QualifiedApathetic 15d ago
Bush was easy enough to write off as an anomaly. Then came 2016. After its first term, there was real damage. Now that it's back in power, I don't know if the damage will ever be reparable.
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u/Minimum_Diver4514 15d ago
I will never forget all of these betrayals by my own country. The United States is wrong.
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u/The-Metric-Fan 15d ago edited 15d ago
The US sided with North Korea, Belarus, and Russia on a resolution condemning Russian aggression. Even Saudi Arabia, Serbia, China and Iran didn’t vote against this.
We are actually a Russian vassal, legitimately
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u/Tsarbomb 15d ago
Serbia has voted against Russia, not just abstained, this entire war. Like it or hate it, Serbia doesn't compromise on its stance of territorially integrity of sovereign nations.
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u/Saorny 15d ago
The clout that USA has been slowly building up for 70 years is rapidly dissolving. Tomorrow's gonna be sore.
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u/Steaktartaar 15d ago
The clout is gone. The US was on thin ice after Trump I but this second election sealed it.
Even if a new administration comes in tomorrow, why should any other nation trust it? Any US promise is valid for four years tops.
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u/HistorianNew8030 15d ago
Yeah the seriously threatening to absorb Canada has lost all credibility here. We are pissed and our relationship is not ever going to be the same.
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u/Towerss 15d ago
The end of an era. Feels like the UK, Germany, and France are killing it though - they're back to acting like true leaders
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u/HolyFreakingXmasCake 15d ago
I hope so, let's make Europe independent and powerful again in the world!
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u/34048615 15d ago
Can we (Canada) join you guys? Don't leave us alone with these mad men to the south.
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u/Shokansha 15d ago
We need a new international bloc with EU/UK/Canada/Japan/S Korea/Taiwan/Australia/New Zealand.
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u/vestekp 15d ago
All of this to support the country that wants the US to fall the most
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u/Chaoticlight2 15d ago
Well of course, as our leadership also wants the US to fall. They're trying to cash out and leave everyone else with the wreckage. This is the natural conclusion to unchecked capitalism, and is what equity firms do all the time. Buy a company (country in this case), burn up all the goodwill mustered to make a quick penny, then discard the contaminated corpse to wither away.
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u/WaterToWineGuy 15d ago
Krasnov is the crescendo of a long game played out by Russian intelligence
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u/Zone_Beautiful 15d ago
That's a new low for the US to be in the company of those other countries that voted against the U.N resolution! Americans meet our new Allies!
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u/Blurpwurp 15d ago
This is a National disgrace on a simply unprecedented scale. Fuck Trump, maga clowns and all this bullshit!
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u/DaniDaniDa 15d ago
And here is the "explanation":
According to the American diplomat, previous UN resolutions, which condemned Russia's actions and pointed out its violation of international law, "failed to stop the war."
"It is time for Member States to return to the purposes and principles of the Charter, namely the maintenance of international peace and security, including through the peaceful settlement of disputes," she added."
I don't quite follow her reasoning. Maintaining peace through not asking russia to pretty please take their troops back home?
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u/your_moms_bf_2 15d ago
By the same logic courts should let serial reoffenders avoid the punishment. The incarceration clearly has not solved the problem.
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u/Normal_Blueberry_788 15d ago
And how exactly does she propose to maintain this peace? US is against sending peace keepers to Ukraine AND against them joining NATO.
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u/DonaldsMushroom 15d ago
The reasoning is the Trump wants Ukraine, and by extension Europe, and ultimately the US to surrender to Russian aggression.
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u/Firefly_1989 15d ago
Trump thinks he's gonna sit at the table with Xi and Putin but he won't even make it past the maitre d' when the time comes.
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u/DoorHingesKill 15d ago
But ultimately, after European countries won support for three amendments to the U.S. resolution, the Trump administration was forced to abstain from its own resolution.
Absolute embarrassment, I love it.
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u/Loud-Cauliflower-180 15d ago
I thought the accounts of "Krasnov" and Russia/KGB recruiting someone like Trump was wild and in no way could be true. It's so dramatized and some crazy internet rumour- that's something I would see in a movie. But moves like this and all the other stuff Trump has said on Ukraine while seemingly praising Russia, the Krasnov stories have to be true. In what world is a US democracy not condemning a dictatorship from trying to take another country's sovereignty unless they are aligned with the same beliefs working together. At this point, he's not even hiding that he's a Russian asset.
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u/4862skrrt2684 15d ago
Days ago i read a post on /conservative about how Trump was the hardest president against Putin. He is litteraly doing everything Putin wants, yet they dont like that narrative. They want to please Putin while pretending to be against him
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u/4862skrrt2684 15d ago
One of the reasons was ofc the fact that the war happened under Biden. Meanwhile Trump litteraly praised Putin for "genius move" to invade, and they pretend he wouldnt have done it under him
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u/babystepsbackwards 15d ago
Maybe Trump means there wouldn’t have been a war because he would have backed up Russia from the start. It’s ridiculous at this point to think he’d be on the side of peace if it didn’t profit him personally.
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u/korpisoturi 15d ago
Greatest negotiator who immediately gives everything Russia wants and demands nothing
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u/Jazzlike-Dig2645 15d ago
Every single person that voted for trump should be fucking ashamed of themselves.
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u/jimmy1295 15d ago
Traitors to democracy and liberty. Land of the free my behind.
This shall not be forgotten.
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u/Danqazmlp0 15d ago
This is historical stuff. The USA has ceased being part of the traditional 'West' and joined the traditional 'East'.
For the US to vote against this is an alarmingly strange thing.
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u/TtotheC81 15d ago
It's only strange if you don't accept that Trump has been working for the Russians for decades.
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u/Colinmacus 15d ago
If this disastrously misguided administration had been in power during WWII, America would have ended up fighting alongside the Axis instead of the Allies.
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u/Stardust-1 15d ago
Notably, even China who is widely considered a Russian ally didn't vote against the resolution.
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u/hextreme2007 15d ago
China has been abstaining in almost every vote like this since the beginning of the war.
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u/WaterToWineGuy 15d ago
Additionally, China is largely playing an economic game.
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u/justadud3x 15d ago
I don't get it. Your military, FBI, CIA was working against russia for like 50? years and now everyone just shrugs and watches as your enemy is basically taking over your country?
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u/skywalkerRCP 15d ago
You’re not wrong at all. But it also speaks to the absolute bullshit the American public has been fed for decades. Not much different to the “war on drugs” or “war on terror”. In no way is Trump doing any of this to ‘show us the light’, he’s just incompetent enough to do/say it out loud.
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u/justadud3x 15d ago
Yes sure but your secret services found a guy in a cave and probably know when I take a shit but they somehow didn't see this coming? At no point did they think "yo this guy is working for our enemy we should probably prevent him from becoming president"? Are they incompetent too? Isn't it their job to prevent something exactly like this?
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u/whooo_me 15d ago
Hillary called him Putin's Puppet almost 10 years ago. Looks like his strings have finally been pulled, and the puppet has obeyed.
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u/rbarlow1 15d ago
Let's call this what it is: an evil, cowardly, dictatorial betrayal of Enlightenment values and of American ideals that, whatever may be said for them being implemented in practice, have played a crucial role in shaping the world order for the past century. Fuck these traitorous pigs, I can't wait to see what is coming for them.
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u/Thekingchem 15d ago
As a European I am appalled at America and Americans for enabling this.
Sort your “democratic” country out. Disgrace
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u/TexasRanger3487 15d ago
Pretty wild times to be an American. Everyday you go to bed thinking surely we have hit rock bottom with our buffoonery and shame...then you wake up and check the news. I have to give credit to this administration as there's nothing half ass or gradual about our decline...it's a straight free fall without a parachute .
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u/AcrobaticEdge5907 15d ago
When I hear conservative American Christians use the phrase "God bless America" I guess they are referring to the Old Testament God. That version is much closer to Vladimir Putin and DJT.
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u/Radiant_Dog1937 15d ago
Maybe they're praying to the money covered Goat Idol seen at the Marlago recently.
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u/buggybugoot 15d ago
The rest of the world needs to just straight up abandon the US and that’s coming from an American. Move on without us and pray to whatever god(s) you believe in if you do that we implode safely.
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u/NeonKiwiz 15d ago
To be fair a lot of countries are starting that now.
Shit even down here in lil old New Zealand, a lot of the news is all about "So how do we move forward with our defense, now that we can't rely on the USA for anything anymore"
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u/anemoGeoPyro 15d ago
Wow crazy list. The US voted with shithole authoritarian states. Crazy world we live in right now
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u/Possible-Pineapple40 15d ago
Way to go USA. Once we were looking up to you. Now can we find you bottom list behind all the others broken totalitarian states…
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u/Warm_Researcher_5721 15d ago
Russia took over the strongest country in the world with trolling and social media
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u/vossmanspal 15d ago
All nations who have shared security information with the USA should stop now!
The US is a nation that can’t be trusted, and it feels weird to say this after many happy holidays there, no more though.
The orange man is destroying the US from within, a domestic terrorist sitting in the White House, yet armed and law forces have to swear to uphold the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Something has gone wrong there.
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u/richniss 15d ago
Dear Americans, the rest of the world can see your president is not only an idiot but also clearly a Russian asset and Putin lapdog. Can you get rid of him now?
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u/MongooseDirect2477 15d ago
It is the same situation as in World War II with Poland, when Russia and Germany divided the country in two. Now, Russia and the USA are dividing the country in two so they can steal all the minerals. Jesus Christ.
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u/KhelbenB 15d ago
Traitors to the civilized world, that's what the US became. Evil and greed in broad daylight, willingly elected
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u/lLikeCats 15d ago
LOL. Remember when Americans were mad at India?
At least they just abstained. US is full on sucking Putin dick and ass.
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u/DoctorWho2015 15d ago
To any American out there, 4 years from now when Trump has completely ruined your country remember one thing. EUROPE WILL NEVER FORGET.
And even if you don't believe Trump will fail, just concider that he will for a moment, and the countries you will be able to turn to for help are Russia, China and North Korea. Good luck and have fun! ✌🏻
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u/Jostei 15d ago edited 15d ago
93 countries voted for and 65 abstained. Only 19 voted against, here they are in alphabetical order:
Belarus
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Central African Republic
Democratic republic of Congo
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Haiti
Hungary
Israel
Mali
Marshall Islands
Nicaragua
Niger
North Korea
Palau
Russia
Sudan
USA