[guest post by Dana]

There is absolutely no defending this:

The U.S. voted against a resolution condemning Russia as the aggressor in the war in Ukraine that passed the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, marking three years since Russia’s launched its full-scale invasion of the country.

Among the 17 countries that joined the U.S. in opposition to the nonbinding measure were Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Israel and Hungary, whose Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is a close ally to President Trump. China abstained, along with 64 other countries.

Additionally:

The U.S. delegation also abstained from voting on its own competing resolution that simply called for an end to the war, after European-sponsored amendments inserting new anti-Russian language in the resolution also passed the 193-member body by a wide margin. The amended U.S. resolution also passed.

And then there’s this:

Trump, asked about the vote in the Oval Office on Monday, said he would rather not explain the rationale behind it, but called it “self-evident.”

To refuse to say out loud that the blame for this war rests with Putin, and no one else, is a disgrace. I don’t know if Trump just doesn’t care, or is too dumb to understand “war,” or more likely, his adoration of Putin and an underlying drive to be a strong man like his corrupt pals, simply takes precedence. . . But to side with the likes of North Korea, Eritrea, Syria, Sudan Russia and Russia’s close ally Belarus, who also refused to vote against Putin, is deeply shameful and problematic. Every day, America looks less and less like the America that we’ve known our whole lives. And we’re only one month into Trump’s tenure. So as we betray Ukraine and demonstrate to the world that America can no longer be trusted or counted on, let’s see what President Zelensky has to say:

Zelensky to EU leaders in Kyiv:

The war is against Ukraine, so Ukraine must be at the negotiating table

Peace can’t be declared or announced. [it must be built]

**No one trusts Russia. This trust should be built in baby steps. The first step is to exchange all prisoners 1/

Europe should be at the table too, because it is Russian strategic assets.

So, together with the U.S., we must sit opposite of Russia 2/

Ukraine deserves not only EU membership, but also the security guarantees provided by NATO

If that’s impossible, Ukraine will built NATO in Ukraine 3/

I gave Gen. Kellogg and President Trump a document with a list of all ceasefires that Russia has broken4X

**No one except for the sitting President of the United States. And that is the saddest thing of all.

—Dana