Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “Washington's regional alliances are a force multiplier in safeguarding U.S. interests at home and abroad; they need to…”

This is part of their playbook. They have done this before. They did it in 2014, and it was not accepted.

We will not continue to allow them to use that perch to terrorize the world with their actions.

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.

I can tell you that the Russians were making every effort to intimidate and press those countries away from supporting this General Assembly resolution.