US reversal prevents UN vote on pandemic truce

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The United States on Friday stunned other members of the UN Security Council by preventing a vote on a resolution for a ceasefire in various conflicts around the world to help troubled nations better fight the coronavirus pandemic, diplomats said.

Washington's reversal came a day after it agreed to the text, negotiators said under cover of anonymity.

"The United States cannot support the current draft," the country's delegation declared, without further detail, to the 14 other Security Council members, after nearly two months of difficult negotiation over the text.

The latest stalemate continues to leave the global peace and security body largely mute in the face of a once-in-a-century pandemic that has killed more tha 270,000 people and raised further fears for the world's most vulnerable.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-reversal-prevents-un-vote-on-pandemic-truce/ar-BB13OPof?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=hplocalnews

Trump has made the US a pariah state.

[SCantiGOP]

1. As a kid, I would stand for the National Anthem when the TV station signed off

I never thought I would be horribly ashamed of my country.
Actually, I guess I am ashamed of my government. Not to adopt the asshole dictator's slogan, but we can make this country a force for good again.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Another foreign policy failure, to be laid at trump's feet. What a loser. NT

[Newest Reality]

3. Those darn Americans!

The USA is becoming a liability to the rest of the World and an more aggressive monger of conflict. Peace? Oh, that's not even a notion, even in a global crisis. Talk about a malignant curse.

Those Americans better make some changes for everybody's sake. This looks bad.

Oh, wait...I am an American and live here. I almost forgot because I can't recognize the place anymore.

[BComplex]

4. The same thing he's done to the US constitution.

Nobody in the civilized world had anticipated that a president would emerge in the United States that would so thoroughly explode our notion of what we thought we had built as evolved countries in this world.

No rules. No laws. No decency. No cooperation. We never have codified some rules, laws and decency. But it looks like we're all (all of us in the whole world) going to have to re-think this.

[world wide wally]

5. And we ARE a pariah state in practice.

[Behind the Aegis]

6. Hmmm...on the heels of a veto of the Iran war powers resolution. (Senate failed to override.)

As Rachel is so fond of saying, "Watch this space."