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Oh, I agree that they are all baddies. But in this instance, the Israel - Palestine conflict the baddy is US. Bringing China and Russia as a baddy to vote against a shitty resolution is whataboutism to deflect blameDoes it? I've must been intoxicated by my own brainfarts and got sidetracked then.
Aside from getting one over the US you previously mentioned "posturing and preening on the world stage being exclusive to the US" which is factually wrong. Russia and China (and many other countries) do the very same thing. They truly are up to something, which is feck the US over at every chance they get. Just like the US does. They also love gaslighting, just like the US does.
It's not so much about the validity of their reasons to veto the resolution as to why they really vetoed it. Palestine just comes in handy at the moment. It could've been anything.
I hold the utmost contempt about US foreign policy. I personally think that the US has been a blight on this planet since the end of WWII and call for a multipolar world where every superpower is kept in check by other ones. But let's not kid ourselves and think that Russia or China are suddenly okay just because they happen to have a stance that coincidentally aligns with your view of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
That's why they didn't lift so much of a pinkie in the past five decades and only opened their mouth in the last months.
There's no such thing as fairness in international matters, especially when it involves major powers deciding the fate of plebs. You can bet your ass that if voting for the resolution would serve Russia's or China's interests, they'd have done it.
That will sell in the US and some parts of the Western world, which is the point. They are all baddies.
China and Russia are none actors in this conflict and they are spectators eating popcorn seeing how US is destroying its reputation alone. Then they will fill the space that US is leaving in the region without an effort