RUSSIA UN PROPOSAL SHOT DOWN
now let's look at what Russia is up to
it's no secret that when it comes to
geopolitics you have camps East versus
West North versus South and often this
boils down to one thing the US versus
Russia Washington may look at Beijing as
the biggest threat in the world right
now and with good reason but it has
always reserved its worst fire and ey
for
Moscow and this plays out even when the
two Nations miraculously happen to be on
the same page like they are today when
it comes to innocent ordinary
Palestinians earlier we told you about
Biden and his quote unquote blunt talks
how he's been trying to get humanitarian
Aid to Gaza turns out Russia is doing
the same listen
in according to the order of the
president and the government of the
Russian Federation humanitarian Aid is
being provided to the residents of the
Gaza Strip Aviation of the Russian
emergency ministry will deliver 27 tons
of food products humanitarian Aid will
be handed over to representatives of the
red chren Society for delivery to the
residents of the Gaza
Strip there is one party to blame for
the current mess and that is Hamas as we
keep saying Hamas is not Palestine both
the US and Russia agree on this both
Powers want to protect the innocent
Palestinians but even here in a rare
moment of consensus they cannot agree on
how to do it so instead of coming
together Washington and Moscow are now
fighting it out
their latest Battleground is a graveyard
of the Diplomatic process the United
Nations security
Council Russia wanted to pass a
resolution on Monday to bring about a
humanitarian ceasefire a pause in the
constant bombardment so that ordinary
Palestinians could flee North Gaza so
that they could go south and receive Aid
in peace after all what good is an aid
truck that's been
obliterated but what happened to this
Russian resolution I'm sure you've
guessed it it got shot down the Russians
had a few Choice words to share about
that we believe that today's vote in the
Security Council is very demonstrative
it clearly shows who are in favor of a
truce to stop indis committed bombing
and the provision of humanitarian
assistance and who is still in favor of
blocking a single common message from
the security Council for purely selfish
interests and political
interests
passing anything through the Security
Council is a task the UNC has 15 Members
United Nations security Council they 15
members it includes five permanent
members the US the UK France China and
Russia for any resolution to pass there
are several Hoops that one must jump
first of all it needs nine votes in
favor what happens if no one votes
against a
resolution there is no guarantee that it
will pass if you have eight yes votes
and seven extensions your resolution
will fail so you can block something
without actually saying no just
abstain and if you want to get something
passed first get nine yes votes that's
the first hurdle nine yes votes a hurdle
that Russia could not overcome on
Monday here's what it got five votes in
favor four votes against and six
abstentions but not getting enough votes
is not the biggest hurdle really it's
the veto power the permanent members
have it only the five of them reminds
you of George 's book Animal Farm this
is one of its famous lines everyone is
equal but some more equal than others
nothing quite captures this dire
sentiment like the United Nations
security Council technically it has 15
members but only five votes really
matter if 14 members vote Yes but one
permanent member vetos it the resolution
gets
crapped this happened yesterday Brazil
proposed a resolution to help the pal
Palestinian
people the result of the Voting is as
follows seven votes in favor one vote
against seven
abstentions the proposed amendment has
not been adopted having failed to obtain
the required number of
votes that one vote against was all that
mattered it was a veto by the United
States it killed the resolution the
United States is disappointed this
resolution made no mention of Israel's
rights of
self-defense Russia again had some
Choice words about this listen
in we have just been Witnesses once
again of hypocrisy and the double
standards of our American colleagues not
standing in principle in the security
Council they really did not want to have
any solution found here it was very
obvious as to what their intentions were
before us today
Moscow believes that Washington only
wants to solve the crisis on its own
terms there can be no other party that
brings about peace not Russia not even a
neutral party like Brazil only the
us yesterday's theatrics have one
takeaway the UN Security Council is
broken it's a playground for the big
powers to settle their scores everything
else takes a backseat until the Security
Council is overhauled the UN will remain
paralyzed and people in desperate need
of help like ordinary Palestinians will continue
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