[gmuslera]

And is not the only vote where US shown how isolated are from world opinion. Migrants rights, Cuba embargo, economic coercion against developing countries are a few recent examples of UN resolutions that follow that pattern. And it is a pattern by itself.

[paulmd]

in fairness, the EU (for example) has not really lived up to its principled position on migrant rights in practice. The northern states have pushed policies that stick the burden for migrants on the first state in which the refugee enters, and since there's not a lot of migrants coming from the arctic circle this pretty much means the much poorer southern states have to shoulder all the costs and effort of assimilation, while the northern states tut about the principles.

[mopsi]

> since there's not a lot of migrants coming from the arctic circle

That's not true at all.

Finland closed the entire border with Russia because Russians kept ferrying migrants to Finnish border. Russia had tried the same tactic against Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland too. Strong response prevented the issue from snowballing out of control like in the Mediterranean where we see one artificial justification after another why nothing can be done.

[nvm0n2]

Don't feel bad. UN resolutions don't actually reflect world opinion or even political opinion in those countries. Nobody cares what the UN thinks so even when countries vote in a particular way, the local politicians and voters barely notice. The story of people who get sent to represent the country there aren't elected and don't try to find out what people really think, they are just the usual NGO crowd.