Wait for the next "Emergency" meeting.

[EndlessWire]

Yesterday, Russia again complained bitterly to the current President of the UNSC, who happens to represent the UK, about not getting his next day emergency meeting. I think that Barbara Woodward handled the complaint well, explaining what happened and why the meeting wasn't held immediately, but within the time limit required.

I think that Russia will test this system of complaints. The UNSC stated that all requests for an emergency meeting would be honored, as they had been here. I think that Russia will manufacture a new emergency complaint, just to make this point and to test the Security Council. They want to use the UN as a puppet for their PR, as stated in the Olympic Manifesto. This is going off the rails for them.

[abqtommy]

1. There's a certain amount of denial involved when a person like Putin or a country like

Russia realize that they've been Voted Off The Island. 'Time heals all wounds and
wounds all heels.'*

*This is identified as a 'proverb' and is not attributed to any individual.

[Make7]

2. The first ten minutes of the Russian press conference on the 4th about Bucha...

... was the Russian Ambassador complaining about the emergency meeting not being held until the next day. It seemed to give a strong impression of their priorities.

A horrendous, unfounded accusation of barbaric crimes has been made against the Russian military... but first let me complain for ten minutes about not getting an emergency Security Council meeting convened as quickly as I think the great federation of Russia deserves.

It appears the rest of the Security Council is not as eager to hear your lies as you are impatient to spread them.

[EndlessWire]

3. LOL! n/t

[taxi]

4. People will do what they're told to do.

When wanting something from a system, knowing how to get it without disqualifying yourself from other options is one way. There's no doubt they'll fight like hell.

More important, they matched that show of unity with substance: a remarkable joint statement, running more than 5,000 words, that can be described only as a blueprint for combined confrontation with the United States. The two countries endorsed each other’s foreign policy wish lists, with Russia affirming China’s opposition to “any forms of independence of Taiwan” and China denouncing “further enlargement of NATO.” China agreed to buy $117.5 billion worth of oil and gas from Russia.

Though not quite a green light from Beijing for Russian aggression against Ukraine, which was not mentioned by name, the statement signals that, if Russia invades, China will help Mr. Putin withstand the crippling economic sanctions that the United States and its allies plan to impose. In fact, the document says, there are “no limits” to the two’s “friendship” and “no ‘forbidden’ areas of cooperation,” suggesting that it could some day extend into intelligence sharing and weapons development.

Not since the early Cold War and the alliance between Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong have Moscow and Beijing pledged so openly — and comprehensively — to cooperate in world affairs, during what the Xi-Putin joint statement called “a new era of rapid development and profound transformation.” For perhaps the first time in modern history, the West faces a Russia-China pair, both of which are not only unremittingly hostile but also strong militarily, modern technologically, solvent economically and stable politically.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/07/putin-xi-the-dictators-meet-at-olympics/