Trumps Aktionen bei der Vereinten Nationen repräsentieren eine radikale Neuausrichtung mit Russland

**From Zeeshan Aleem, writer and editor for MSNBC Daily:**

Trump, usually eager to hold forth at length about the least consequential topics, has had little of substance to say about U.S. positioning at the U.N. “I would rather not explain it now, but it’s sort of self-evident I think,” he told reporters when asked about his administration’s opposition to the resolution condemning Russia. 

He’s right: the vote speaks for itself. It says that Trump is not merely “soft” on Russia — as he was sometimes during his first term, although often not nearly as much as Democrats thought he was — but rather that he now sees a decades-long adversary as a friend, or at least potential friend, of America. It says that the once airtight U.S.-European alliance is collapsing. It says that the U.S. is done with even pretending to care about sovereignty norms and human rights. And it says that the U.S. backs an every-man-for-himself ethos in a global order in which the strong rule the weak without apology or shame.

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