Russia and China Prove UN Inability to Discern the Real Villains, Veto Security Council Resolution on Syria's Chemical Weapons Use

"Russia and the Trump administration clashed in a vote at the United Nations Security Council for the first time on Tuesday as the Kremlin vetoed a measure backed by the Americans that would have punished Syria for using chemical weapons...

The vote in the 15-member council was nine in favor and three against. Opponents included Russia and China, two of the five veto-wielding permanent members of the Council, and Bolivia, a nonpermanent member. Three nonpermanent members - Egypt, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan - abstained.

It was the Kremlin's seventh Security Council veto in defense of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria over the war that has been convulsing his country for nearly six years.

The American ambassador, Nikki R. Haley, who has called chemical weapons attacks in Syria 'barbaric,' accused Russia and China of putting 'their friends in the Assad regime ahead of our global security' in her blunt rebuke of the vetoes.

'It's a sad day for the Security Council when members make excuses for other member states killing their own people,' she said in the Council chambers..."