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US vetoes widely supported resolution backing full UN membership for Palestine (apnews.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Alsephina@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favor, the United States opposed and two abstentions, from the United Kingdom and Switzerland. U.S. allies France, Japan and South Korea supported the resolution.

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[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The US supplanted the UK as the de facto leader of the imperial core after WW2, and specially after the Suez crisis.

The UK can't afford to antagonize the world by directly voting against international will anymore like the US now can, hence them (and Switzerland) only abstaining.