We need to pay our bills to have a seat at the table, and we need to make sure that we are there to push back on those who would have malign intentions at the U.N.
Editor's note · Context
Emphasizing the importance of U.S. financial commitments to the U.N. for maintaining influence.
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We are stronger than we ever were before in terms of the European Union, NATO. All of this was not part of Putin`s plan. I think he thought that we would start to fray around the edges very, very quickly.
Ukraine is not theirs to take. It’s not theirs to have elections in. They have attacked a sovereign, independent country.
But we have used the Security Council, we have used the General Assembly to isolate Russia, to condemn Russia, to kick Russia off of the Human Rights Council.
So, we don`t want to treat them, even though they are a permanent member of the security council, they are not behaving with the responsibility that we would expect of a permanent member of the Security Council.





