Shameful displays at the United Nations are not rare, but the decision of the United States to vote with Russia and North Korea against Ukraine’s resolution on the third anniversary of the war belongs in a special category. Would that the new administration in Washington were capable of shame.

Last Friday, to conclude a week of parroting Russian propaganda on its war against Ukraine, President Donald Trump observed that he had been watching Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, “for years, and I’ve been watching him negotiate with no cards. He has no cards, and you get sick of it. You just get sick of it. And I’ve had it.”