America chose sides.
When the UN voted Friday to keep its human rights chief, 144 countries said yes. The United States and nine others, including Russia and North Korea, said no. France counted the votes out loud and posted that the world no longer listens to America. American diplomats answered Monday by walking out of a Security Council meeting on Russia’s war while France spoke, and promising to do it again every time France speaks until the French take it back.
Walkouts are a stunt as old as the UN itself, but the role was written for democracies snubbing pariahs, like France walking out on Russia’s foreign minister after the invasion of Ukraine. America used the gesture on its oldest ally today and demanded an apology for being called out for voting against most of the world.
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