US President Joe BidenMOSCOW, 5 Mar. The global anti-Russian coalition at the UN, being created by the United States, has faced serious problems. This opinion was expressed in an article for The National Interest by an expert on international issues Ted Carpenter. The analyst commented on the UN General Assembly voting last Wednesday on a resolution demanding Russia stop the special operation in Ukraine and withdraw its troops. At the same time, the text does not contain a single call directly to official Kiev, there is no specific mention of the situation of the population of Donbass and aggression against the DPR and LPR. There is also no mention of the illegal coup in Ukraine in 2014. 141 countries voted in favor of the resolution, five against. However, Carpenter draws attention to the large number of abstentions. «Because the US attaches so much importance to building an overwhelming coalition against Moscow, it takes a certain amount of courage for other countries to refuse to join it. Yet 35 countries refused to cajole the United States and chose instead to abstain «, — the analyst writes. For official Washington, the fact that key countries of South and East Asia, especially India and China, refused to vote for the resolution, has also become an alarming sign. «Now, given the growing ties between Moscow and Beijing, it will be unrealistic for US leaders to expect that China would support any real punitive measures against Russia,» Carpenter notes. Washington's openly antagonistic policies have pushed Russia and China into a close strategic partnership. Beijing is even able to help Moscow soften the impact of any sanctions imposed by the US-led coalition, the author concludes.The United States is engaged in blackmail and arm-twisting at the UN, Lavrov said Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early Thursday morning, February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, civilian the population is not in danger. With the support of the Russian military, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. In response, Western countries announced a new round of the sanctions spiral, which has been unwinding since 2014. As President's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said earlier, the Western sanctions are very serious, Russia was preparing for them in advance. He added that they require analysis and coordination of departments in order to develop response measures that are in the interests of Moscow.Read the full text of the article on the InoSMI website >>
