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Backseat Driver

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15. It won't make your angst any easier, but try these links to

Wed Mar 2, 2022, 02:52 AM

Mar 2022

understand or to find meaning in the proceedings and upcoming UN General Assembly vote:

https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/role-of-general-assembly

[snip]In accordance with the General Assembly's "Uniting for Peace" resolution of November 1950 [resolution 377 (V)], if the Security Council fails to act, owing to the negative vote of a permanent member, then the General Assembly may act. This would happen in the case where there appears to be a threat to the peace, breach of the peace or act of aggression. The General Assembly can consider the matter with a view to making recommendations to Members for collective measures to maintain or restore international peace and security.

This resolution was invoked only once in UN peacekeeping history, when in 1956 the General Assembly established the First UN Emergency Force (UNEF I) in the Middle East. Here's that history:
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/military-history/history-heritage/past-operations/middle-east/united-nations-emergency-force-i.html

The who-is-who leadership of the Peacekeeper arm of the UN and their credentials: https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/leadership

More about this unusual UN General Assembly vote from MSM: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/united-nations-russia-ukraine_n_621c71a4e4b0afc668c2b418
===============================================================II'll try to be following this upcoming vote and what it more fully means in light of the sanctions President Biden has installed to financially isolate him, et al, between the "rock and the hard place" o their hubris along with other world nations. Perhaps this group will find the funding for defense and humanitarian supplies in neighboring (NATO) nations that have received war refugees. Good grief, I heard about a push on Moldova by Belarus??? - Moldova's evidently one messed up country in terms of ethnicities and ideologies, that is next to be embraced illegally by Putin's raging/twisted tzarist pipe dreams of Russia's nevermore-to-be-reconstituted boundaries while fancying himself an empirical Romanov. Being one of the New Century's monsters on steroids is his idea of moving forward out of the past? What a legacy - Glory to Ukraine and all those in favor of freedom to live in peace. - SMH

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UN General Assembly vote [View all] EndlessWire Mar 2022 OP

Russia is almost totally isolated from the world community, DemocraticPatriot Mar 2022 #1

Yes EndlessWire Mar 2022 #5

You'll get to see who voted NO, who abstains and in the end the resolution will pass... PoliticAverse Mar 2022 #2

Oh, TY! EndlessWire Mar 2022 #3

The Russian Federation occupies a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council ... PoliticAverse Mar 2022 #7

I did hear President Z EndlessWire Mar 2022 #9

It was kind of awkward that Russia occupied the Presidency of the Security Council PoliticAverse Mar 2022 #12

Which might also be interesting... hippywife Mar 2022 #18

Couldn't the U.N. declare a "no fly zone" over Ukraine? SergeStorms Mar 2022 #4

Apparently, we have said NO. EndlessWire Mar 2022 #6

The U.N. could take military action as it did when North Korea invaded South Korea but there doesn't PoliticAverse Mar 2022 #8

So the U.N. will sit by.... SergeStorms Mar 2022 #10

No-Fly zones require enforcement blogslug Mar 2022 #11

Then why does the U.N. have peacekeeping forces? SergeStorms Mar 2022 #19

I think we are trying out EndlessWire Mar 2022 #13

I think the only long term solution to the current problem requires a change in the Russian PoliticAverse Mar 2022 #14

It won't make your angst any easier, but try these links to Backseat Driver Mar 2022 #15

TY. Going to read it tomorrow. n/t EndlessWire Mar 2022 #16

I watched the whole thing today. hippywife Mar 2022 #17