War in Ukraine | Why did the United States vote at the UN General Assembly together with Russia, Nicaragua and North Korea?

The project was adopted by 93 votes in favor, 18 against and 65 abstentions. The AP agency noted that the result showed that support for Ukraine It has been reduced, because in previous votes of the General Assembly more than 140 nations condemned the Russian aggression and demanded an immediate withdrawal.

The singular thing about what happened Monday was that The United States voted for the first time against a resolution in favor of Ukraine. He did it together with Russia, Nicaragua, North Korea, Belarus,Sudan, Hungary, Israel, among other nations.

Tuesday, Russia reacted and congratulated itself for what it described as “much more balanced position” in the United States against conflict in Ukraine compared to that of European countries.

At the meeting on Monday, USA He had presented his own resolution that spoke of a generic “conflict between Russia and Ukraine” and asked for urgent peace negotiations, without condemning Russia. However, European countries, headed by France, managed to introduce three amendments that were approved by majority and that completely denatured the US resolution, then I made it clear that Russia was the aggressor.

Las amendments of Europeans included a mention of “Large -scale invasion of Ukraine” On the part of Russia, he asked for “a fair, lasting and complete peace according to the United Nations Charter” and demanded to respect “the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.”

The amended resolution of USA It was approved by 93 votes in favor, eight against and 73 abstentions, including Washington’s.

It was a total setback for the United States what happened in the General Assembly, although what is approved in this instance is not binding.

On Monday, the United States brought its original resolution to the UN Security Councilwhere Russia used her veto power to prevent European amendments from the American text.

The vote in the Security Councilwhich has 15 members, was 10 in favor of the United States resolution, zero against and five abstentions: United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Greece and Slovenia.

The dangers of the new foreign policy of the United States

The international analyst Roberto Heimovits considered that the position of USA with respect to Ukraine As a definitive turn in Washington’s foreign policy, but warned about the dangers that this would entail.

“This Trump policy, which is a 180 degree turn with respect to the foreign policy that the United States has followed since the end of World War II in 1945, can make the world a much more dangerous place of what has been so far, because expansionist countries may think that they have the free court to assault other nations ”, Manifesto Heimovits.

“If the United States abandons Ukraine and Russia defeat, Putin could continue and annex Belarus,” his ally “now; To the Baltic countries. China could also think that he has the free court to attack Taiwan. So, I repeat, the world would become much more dangerous. Let’s see if Trump manages to dissuade this drastic change in the foreign policy of the United States ”he said.

Heimovits He argued that Trump is a very ruling person and ruler volatilewhich can change your mind overnight.

“But What happened on Monday at the UN is a historic event In the negative sense of the word. While the United States is not perfect, since the end of World War II has tried to support attacked countries and, in general, to oppose expansionist states such as Russia or China … but now the United States is supporting the aggressors, to Russia, against the attacked “Heimovits said.

The analyst believes that Trump keeps your approach to Russia and cuts military aid to Ukraineit will be very difficult for kyiv to resist the Russians.

“I do not believe that Europe has the capacity, we still manage to gather the political will, to replace all the economic and military support of the United States and to jump to the fore and take care of all that military support to Ukraine”said. “I don’t know if the European armed industry can meet Ukrainian needs in a war against a big enemy like Russia“He added.

“The strangest in this change in foreign policy of USAwhich has begun with the rise of Trump To power, it occurs when Russia was having great economic difficulties to follow the war, when Russia was already feeling, as they say, the glue; There are rumors that indicate that it has had to sell many tons of gold; His economy was reseaking; Military has had to bring, something incredible for a country of 145 million inhabitants, to North Korean soldiers to fight. So, more or less Trump is giving a lifeguard to Russia in the war”heimovits said.

Why does Trump take this 180 degree turn in American politics? Heimovits said he does not find a rational explanation. “It is said that Trump seeks to divide the world into spheres of influence, one for the United States and one for Russia, but What the United States is doing with Trump is by giving Russia part of the American sphere of influence. It is a policy that has no rational explanation. ”

Finally, Heimovits considered that the fate of war will also depend on Ukraine. “If he remains determined to fight and says good, the United States leaves me, but I will continue to fight until the end, then it is very different than Ukraine throws the towel. ”

Trump breaks with Zelensky

During his campaign for the November 2024 elections, Trump promised that once positioned in power he would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hoursHe said his country was allocating a lot of money to a conflict in which he had nothing to do.

Trump governs USA Since January 20. His first actions have been focused on the migration and other internal issues of the United States. But for almost two weeks he began to emphasize the matter of Ukrainelooking for an approach among its officials with representatives of Putin.

This diplomatic effort has been accompanied by attacks by the US president to kyiv already Zelensky.

Last week, Trump described Zelensky as “dictator without elections”which caused outrage in Ukraine and among its European allies.

Zelensky had criticized the negotiations promoted by Trump With Russia to end the war not including Ukraine at the dialogue table.

The president of the United States also assured that Ukraine could have avoided war If he had negotiated an agreement with Russia from the beginning.

The magnate’s words were interpreted by kyiv and Europe as a award of responsibility to Ukraine For the beginning of the war, when it is clear that Putin was the one who launched the invasion of the neighboring country.

As for Trump’s assertion that Zelensky It is a dictator because its period ends but remains in power without calling elections, it goes in tune with the rhetoric driven by Moscow on the subject. The truth is that since the beginning of the war, in February 2022, a martial law that does not allow the celebration of elections in times of war governs in Ukraine.

Trump He has also recently said that the United States has allocated 350,000 million dollars to Ukraine, a figure that has been questioned by Zelensky who said that both Washington and Europe’s allies have delivered $ 200,000 million in total.