Thread: The Ukraine Situation

I read this morning that the UN votes on Russia/Ukraine will have no veto's. Just a majoriy vote is all that will be needed to take whatever action they deem fit!

Originally Posted by STF

I read this morning that the UN votes on Russia/Ukraine will have no veto's. Just a majoriy vote is all that will be needed to take whatever action they deem fit!

Please provide a link to where you read that. I believe you may have misread the article.

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

Please provide a link to where you read that. I believe you may have misread the article.

Bob

UNITED NATIONS -- Russia vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution on Friday demanding that Moscow immediately stop its attack on Ukraine and withdraw all troops, a defeat the United States and its supporters knew was inevitable but said would highlight Russia’s global isolation.

The vote was 11 in favor, with Russia voting no and China, India and the United Arab Emirates abstaining, which showed significant but not total opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of his country's smaller and militarily weaker neighbor.

The resolution's failure paves the way for supporters to call for a quick vote on a similar resolution in the 193-member U.N. General Assembly, where there are no vetoes. There was no immediate word on a timetable for an assembly vote.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/...raine-83119442

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhum...=RussiaInsight

If they approve it, it's just a piece of paper.

Thanks for posting the link Steve. I had wondered if they had changed the UN Charter regarding voting in the UN Security Council which is the only vote that counts. The General Assemble can vote whatever it wants and no real action is taken. It still takes a unanimous vote in the UN Security Council for the UN to go to war.

There is a way around it but Russia and China are not boycotting the UN Security Council now to make the even possible.

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/educat...-nations-korea

Bob

Well this is interesting, multiple sources

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...edium=referral

That is a shift for them, I am also seeing that Finland is thinking about sending arms

It seems the Europeans are finally waking up. Germany is reconsidering the decommissioning of nuclear power plants and building up their military spending.