This was an extraordinarily important UN Security Council meeting, and, amazingly MSNBC superstar celebrity Rachel Maddow devoted an entire broadcast to it the following week. I have quoted extensively from the Chinese and Russian statements, and also segments of Maddow’s broadcast, and an informative article from the Washington Post, to give substantial balance to this article.]

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In early 2003, while I was working as an accredited journalist at the U.S. State Department, I asked the dazzlingly courageous Associated Press Bureau Chief, a man of supreme intellectual integrity:

“Do you think the US will attack Iran?”

“No, the US is a bully, and only attacks countries that cannot defend themselves.”

Several months later, the US attacked Iraq on fraudulent pretenses, destroying that country, and imposing sanctions which condemned 500,000 Iraqi children to death by starvation, a price whichMadeleine Albrightstated she was willing to pay to impose “democracy” on Iraq. The AP Bureau Chief was brilliant, perhaps the most brilliant reporter at the State Department, and phenomenally realistic, but was not yet as cynical as I suspect he would now be.

The China-Russia veto of the UNSC vote on the draft resolution on Maritime Security in the Middle East, April 7, 2026combined brilliant and meticulous exposure of the barely disguised aggressive intent of the draft, and exposure of the notorious double-standard which has disgraced the credibility of the United Nations on innumerable occasions.

Russia’s Ambassador Nebenzia stated:

“even though the authors tried to cloak the draft in generalized wordings, the gist remained unchanged: the draft was designed to grant carte blanche for the continued aggressive acts and further escalation. We understand what this would mean from a legal standpoint, as well as in terms of the implications ‘on the ground’. Even more so when we hear statements from the US President about his readiness to ‘destroy’ Iran if the Strait of Hormuz is not opened.”

Source: Global Research