The threats of aggression on the border of Ukraine. Yes, on its border is provocative. Our recognition of the facts on the ground is not provocative. The provocations from Russia not from us or other members of this council.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield addresses the UN Security Council, asserting that the U.S. is not the provocateur in the situation regarding Ukraine.
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They have been isolated in the international community. And this is a desperate action by a country that does not have confidence in itself.
It’s very difficult to take any of the five permanent members with veto rights over anything that goes on in the Security Council, it’s hard to get them off.
We`re not going to let Russia get away with lying to the world or staining the integrity of the Security Council by using this forum as a venue for legitimizing Putin`s violence.
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