UN Resolution | Europe divided on the Ukraine issue
With a favorable resolution on the Ukraine war, the US government has achieved the approval of the Russian Federation in the UN Security Council for the first time in three years . What is this: a dam breaking, a turning point or even the fall of the firewall when it comes to dealing with Ukraine? The U-turn by the USA compared to the position of Joe Biden's previous government was foreseeable. US President Donald Trump has been working on a "deal" for weeks in which one of the warring parties is dictated to what peace should look like. The UN resolution, which the Security Council has now adopted by a vote of 10 to 5, decrees in a formal act the rapprochement between the USA and Russia on the Ukraine issue. Nothing more.
The UN lacks the power and sanctioning means to enforce its decisions or to impose penalties for non-compliance. This is what the founding mothers and fathers of the United Nations, who were stuck in imperialist thought patterns, wanted and also gave five particularly powerful states the right of veto - in the naive assumption that they would have the welfare of all in mind and not just their own interests.
A much more interesting question is: Why the hell did France or Great Britain not veto the Security Council if they wanted to prevent the US resolution because Russia is not explicitly named as the aggressor? Evidently, they do not want to upset the USA - just as the non-permanent Security Council members Denmark, Slovenia and Greece abstained instead of voting against it. Europe is far from having a coherent line. Just as the Global South doubts the honesty of the Western positions on the war in Ukraine, these doubts also exist in the EU .
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