The Wall Street Journal on Monday slammed the Trump administration’s voting against a resolution at the United Nations which called out Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
America’s siding with Russia was a “regrettable moment,” wrote the editorial board of the conservative newspaper.
It also means the United States is “now voting with the world’s rogues rather than with its allies,” said the board.
America “tried to pressure Ukraine to withdraw its resolution in favor of an American draft that didn’t cite Russia as the aggressor in the war” but “Kyiv understandably refused,” it added.
The Journal — a thorn in Trump’s side on multiple occasions in recent weeks — acknowledged the resolution “has no practical importance.” But it “does underscore Mr. Trump’s turn toward Russia in the conflict,” it added.
Trump has repeatedly falsely claimed that Ukraine is to blame for being invaded by Russia in February 2022, and has falsely slammed Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a “dictator.”
The U.S. president vowed during his 2024 election campaign that he’d end the conflict on his first day back in the White House.
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American officials held peace talks with Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia last week, but Ukrainian officials were crucially not invited. After meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, Trump talked about the possibility of Putin allowing European peacekeepers in Ukraine and expressed hope the war could end within weeks.