The USA votes with Russia at the UN against a text because it rejects the invasion of Ukraine

The Donald Trump administration is openly acting as if it were just another ally of Russia, as it has demonstrated once again at the UN.

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This is not a peace process: it is favoring Russia and will not only have effects for Ukraine

The US voted with Russia, North Korea, Belarus, and Nicaragua.

Yesterday, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on cooperation between that organization and the Council of Europe. The text was adopted by 105 votes in favor, 9 against, and 33 abstentions. In addition, 46 countries did not participate in the vote. The text of the 12-page resolution (see PDF) twice criticizes Russian aggression against Ukraine. This has not pleased the Trump administration.

Significantly, the 9 countries that voted against were Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea, Mali, Nicaragua, Niger, Russia, Sudan, and the United States. It is curious to note that the United States voted in favor along with Russia's most loyal allies, while other Kremlin-friendly countries (such as Cuba, Communist China, and Iran) opted to abstain.

The US justifies its vote because the text rejects Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

In a text published yesterday, the United States Mission to the UN justified this position by stating the following:

Maintaining international peace and security, including through the peaceful settlement of disputes, is the primary goal for which the United Nations was created. The current resolution repeats statements as to the Russia-Ukraine war that the United States considers unhelpful in advancing the cause of peace.

We are confident the durable resolution of the Russia-Ukraine war is of greatest importance to members of the Council of Europe, as it is to the United States. We hope the Council of Europe, and all UN member states, will support and reinforce efforts to achieve a comprehensive and lasting peace between Russia and Ukraine.

Significantly, the text of the US mission speaks of a "Russia-Ukraine war" and not a Russian invasion, pretending not to know who the invader is and who the invaded is. Let us remember that two days earlier, Trump blamed Zelensky for the war, in statements that have caused outrage in Europe, since the US president is openly favoring Vladimir Putin by exonerating him of his aggression against Ukraine. This Monday, Trump apologized to Russia for the massacre of civilians in Sumy, perpetrated by the Russians last Sunday, stating that "I was told they made a mistake", while avoiding any expression of condemnation of this new war crime.

In February, the USA voted with Russia against another condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine.

This isn't the first time Trump has so blatantly acted out his alignment with Putin. Two months ago, the US voted alongside Russia and Moscow's allied countries against another UN resolution because it condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The current US administration pretends to adopt this undignified stance in order to promote peace and maintain an equidistant and neutral position, but just a few days earlier Trump had blamed Ukraine for the war and called Zelensky a "dictator", a term Trump has never used to refer to Putin.

This is not promoting peace, but promoting Russia.

While all this is happening, Trump's most staunch supporters continue trying to convince us that this is a plan for peace, claiming that we should put our trust in the US president and that his actions are something like 4D chess, and that those of us less clever than him are unable to understand it. The reality is that the moves Trump has been making are not in favor of peace, but rather of Russia, which has found in the current US president a very useful partner to make it profitable for the Kremlin to have invaded Ukraine and to be committing all kinds of crimes against its civilian population, including children and babies.

So far, all of Trump's pressure has been directed against the invaded country, not the invading country. In fact, two weeks ago, Trump even excluded Russia from his tariff offensive, while imposing 10% tariffs on Ukraine, despite the fact that the US has a trade deficit with Russia and a trade surplus with Ukraine (remember that this is the real motivation for the tariffs announced by Trump).

What Trump is doing does not look like a peace plan, because if it were, he would be pressuring the invading country to stop its terrorist attacks against Ukrainian civilians: rather, it looks like a division of Ukraine between the US and Russia, in which Trump aspires to keep a large part of Ukraine's mineral wealth without offering any security guarantees to Ukraine. It is shameful to see the president of the largest democracy in the West doing this and so clearly betraying the founding principles of his own country, at whose roots the cause of Freedom has always played a fundamental role... until now.

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Photo: Yuri Kadobnov. A meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018.