United States Joins Terrorist Russia on the Dark Side of International Affairs

It has taken three decades since the dissolution of the Russian empire with its notorious prison of nations for the United States of America, the historical defender of nations oppressed by Moscow, to reveal its shameless support for the enemy of humanity, freedom and democracy.

This week, the US has twice sided with Russia in votes at the United Nations to mark the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, highlighting the Trump Administration’s change of stance on the war and Ukraine. The White House’s policy of supporting Russia rather than beleaguered Ukraine has been on a downward slope toward hades since Donald J. Trump assumed the presidency. He put Ukraine, the victim, on the same level as Russia, not only dividing guilt between both countries but absurdly declaring that Ukraine started the war. The international community arose in shock and offered its support for Ukraine. Finally, Trump denounced Ukrainian President Zelenskyy as a dictator.

The language and words expressed by the American president fit hand in glove with age-old Russian diatribes against Ukraine, its national leadership and patriotic citizens. This prompted many to research and uncover claims, most from European and notably East European sources, that Donald J. Trump became a Soviet asset in the mid 1980s.

At the United Nations, first, the US opposed a European-drafted resolution condemning Moscow’s actions and supporting Ukraine’s territorial integrity – voting the same way as Russia and countries including North Korea and Belarus at the UN General Assembly in New York.

Then the US drafted and voted for a resolution at the UN Security Council which called for an end to the conflict but contained no criticism of Russia.

The Security Council passed the resolution, but two key US allies, the UK and France, abstained after their attempts to amend the wording were vetoed.

The UN resolutions were tabled as French President Emmanuel Macron visited President Donald Trump at the White House in an attempt to address their sharp differences over the war. On Thursday, last week, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was to visit the new American leader.

Trump’s White House has upended the transatlantic alliance and the post-World War Two security structure, currying favor with Moscow and casting doubt on America’s long-term commitment to European security.

That rift was laid bare on the floor of the 193-member UNGA on Monday, February 24, as American diplomats pushed their limited resolution mourning the loss of life during the 

“Russia-Ukraine conflict” and calling for a swift end to it. The parity they hoped to achieve was in reality a pro-Russian propaganda gambit to erase Russia’s stigma of culpability and the strong international support Ukraine has garnered in three years since Russian launched the war against Ukraine.

European diplomats tabled a more detailed text, blaming Russia for its full-scale invasion, and supporting Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

“However, reducing the Assembly’s position to merely stating this desire is not enough. We need to reconfirm that the aggression should be condemned and discredited, not rewarded. Our position must include substantive elements and ensure that any future peace initiative aligns with the principles of the UN Charter.” said Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Mariana Betsa, who spoke in the hallowed halls of the UN.

“We need clear guidelines – not just to silence weapons temporarily, but to achieve a sustainable and just solution. A solution that guarantees there will be no repetition of what happened three years ago, on February 24, 2022. Neither in Ukraine, nor elsewhere.

“For us, for Ukraine the path forward is clear: the only way, as our President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated, to ensure comprehensive, just and lasting peace is to reaffirm our commitment to the UN Charter and to agree that principles enshrined in it – the principle of sovereignty and the principle of territorial integrity of states within its internationally recognized borders – must serve as the foundation,” she continued.

Betsa told the member-states that the way Russian aggression is answered today “will define the future of Ukraine…Europe and our common future.”

UNGA members backed the European resolution by 93 votes but, extraordinarily, the US did not abstain but actually voted against it, along with Russia, Israel, North Korea, Sudan, Belarus, Hungary and 11 other states, with 65 abstentions.

The UNGA also passed the US resolution but only after it was amended to include language supporting Ukraine, which led to the US abstaining.

Republican Sen. John Curtis said he was “deeply troubled” by the vote “which put us on the same side as Russia and North Korea.”

“These are not our friends. This posture is a dramatic shift from American ideals of freedom and democracy,” he wrote on X. 

The vote was “contrary to our long-standing support of democracy,” said former US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi. At least two generations of Americans have grown up believing that the United States does indeed support the aspirations of the captive nations only to be awakened by a new reality.

Kowtowing to Russian complaints has been avoided for decades until now. Special envoy Steve Witkoff oddly said Sunday that Russia should not necessarily be blamed for sparking the war in Ukraine — a position that aligns with Trump’s recent claims with Vladimir Putin against Zelenskyy as the three-year anniversary of the fighting looms.

“The war didn’t need to happen — it was provoked. It doesn't necessarily mean it was provoked by the Russians,” Witkoff said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.

Witkoff suggested that Ukraine’s desire to join NATO instigated the war, demonstrating a phenomenal lack of knowledge about the history of Ukraine and Russian aggression.

“There were all kinds of conversations back then about Ukraine joining NATO. ... That didn't need to happen,” he said. “It basically became a threat to the Russians and so we have to deal with that fact.” 

In an interview on ABC News’ This Week, Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), a senior member of the armed services committee, castigated Trump’s recent verbal attacks on Zelenskyy and increased alignment with Russia.

“Essentially, this is President Trump surrendering to the Russians,” he said. “This is not a statesman or a diplomat. This is just someone who admires Putin, does not believe in the struggle of the Ukrainians and is committed to cozying up to an autocrat.”

How to return to a time in history when the United States is visibly standing on the front line of defending Ukraine and the other x-captive nations can only be determined by the occupant of the Oval Office. The current inhabitant, sadly, is ready to sleep with the enemy until the next elections, which can’t come to soon.

PS: In reply to Trump calling Zelenskyy a dictator without support, the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada or parliament voted unanimoulsy in support of its national president.