Putin gets no support from UN Security Council over Ukraine

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By EDITH M. LEDERER

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin received no support from members of the U.N. Security Council at an emergency meeting Monday night for his actions to bring separatists in eastern Ukraine under Moscow’s control.

The U.S. called his moves a pretext for a further invasion, many members condemned his violation of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, and even close ally China urged diplomacy and a peaceful solution.

Ukraine called for the rare evening session along with the U.S., five European countries and Mexico to condemn Putin’s actions earlier Monday to recognize the independence of the separatist regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, scenes of an eight-year war, and order his military to “maintain peace” there.

Russia happens to hold the Security Council’s rotating presidency this month and wanted the meeting to be closed, but diplomats said they agreed to an open session under intense pressure from Western and other members.



In this image provided by the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks during an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on Ukraine, at the U.N. headquarters, Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. (Evan Schneider/United Nations via AP)


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[JohnSJ]

1. I think it is unclear about China.

[Crowman2009]

10. They are like the guy who just realized the hot woman they are dating is a psycho.

[DemocraticPatriot]

13. I hate it when that happens...

[Javaman]

2. the slicing and dicing of Ukraine under putin's pretext of bullshit.

a chunk of the world gets all hot and bothered, making all sorts of condemnations and imposing whatever sanctions, but, at the end of the day, putin still is occupying that territory.

yay for us....

[MarineCombatEngineer]

3. So what would you have the world do short of all out war,

which will happen if the US and Russia got into it?

Why not adopt a wait and see as to what Pres. Biden and the rest of the western world does?

This is not the Mango Menace at the helm now, this is a President who knows the stakes and is marshalling the western world and NATO to confront Russian aggression without blowing up the world.

I fully trust Pres. Biden, who has reunited NATO and the western world, unlike the Mango Menace, who probably would have just stood by and let Putin run wild without any consequences.

[Javaman]

6. if you read history, which I get the impression that you probably do...

you know they only thing that will dislodge putin from Ukraine is force or the collapse of russia.

so there is my answer.

on edit. he will not leave willingly. he needs to be forced to.

the sanctions need to be crushingly horrible to the russian economy, but I honestly don't see that happening.

[DemocraticPatriot]

14. The Ukranians will fight..

it is Afghanistan times 10....


We should give them all the aid we can, other than committing US troops on the ground into Ukraine...

I think the Russians are biting off more than they can chew, and have forgotten the lessons of Afghanistan...

[PoliticAverse]

4. So the U.N. will be sending him a nasty letter then? n/t

[EndlessWire]

11. LOL! Sternly worded? n/t

[niyad]

5. "russia happens to hold the rotating presidency of the Security Council this

month." Mere coincidence, of course.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

7. So Russia can veto any action against them from the UN, wonderful

[CloudWatcher]

9. Russia always had the power to veto

Russia is one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.

Otherwise the UN might be good for something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_United_Nations_Security_Council

[prodigitalson]

8. Couldn't even get the Chinese nt

[oasis]

12. UN Bootin' Putin in His Ass. nt