Trump and Putin Just Ganged Up Against Ukraine at the UN. Here is How Every Country Voted

There's been a re-alignment at the UN

The UN General Assembly met this morning to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Under normal circumstances, Europe and the United States would join forces to advance a resolution that firmly denounces Russia’s aggression and forcefully defends Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. But today’s vote was anything but normal.

There were essentially two competing texts—one drafted by the European Union and Ukraine, and the other by the United States. The EU text had been circulating for weeks and included what you might expect: it defined the conflict as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, affirmed Ukraine’s sovereignty, and called for a just peace based on the UN Charter and Ukraine’s territorial integrity.

The American text, on the other hand, was a terse and equivocal statement that did none of those things. Here is the American resolution in its entirety:

This created a rare showdown at the UN between the United States, backed by Russia,…