© Angela Weiss/AFPUS Deputy Ambassador to the UN Robert Wood votes against Palestinian UN membership at United Nations โข April 18, 2024
The veto on Palestinian statehood and Israeli strikes on Iran are signs of irreversible decline in American soft power.
So-called Western values, especially those touted by the United States, have long revealed themselves to be hollow and contradictory. The country's Declaration of Independence from Great Britain famously stated that "all men are created equal,"
while instituting brutal chattel slavery on Africans and committing a horrific genocide against the Native people of the Americas.Yet, it could still be argued - in terms however trite - that
the US was somehow on the right side of history at various junctures. Today, recent actions by the administration have shown that
this is undeniably no longer the case. On Thursday, the
US vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution that would grant Palestine full UN membership despite Washington's official position being in favor of the two-state solution.
Comment: Encouraging news, but it could be a feint. The same regulations on censorship and centralization of power could still be brought in under the guise of "fighting terrorism" or some such nonsense. Eyes open!