Washington only cares about a nation’s right to defend itself when the country in question is aligned with US foreign policy goals, Russia’s deputy representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, said on Thursday.
Addressing a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine, he accused the US government of applying double standards to armed conflicts. He quoted US Alternative Representative for Special Political Affairs Robert Wood, who said hours earlier about Israel: “No member of this Council, facing a brutal terrorist organization on its border, would tolerate daily attacks and displacement of tens of thousands of its own people.”
Wood was defending Israel’s military action in confrontation with the Lebanon-based militant movement Hezbollah amid wider rising tensions in the Middle East.
Polyanskiy pointed out that the American position “is reserved exclusively for Israel” and “when it comes to crimes against Russia and Russians, Washington doesn’t care.”
The speech delivered by the Russian
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