Jerusalem, etc.: How US global leadership has changed under Trump
The scene at the United Nations Security Council last week was reminiscent of the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, when the international community balked at President George W. Bush’s “with us or against us” message to the world body concerning the coming war.
This time the impetus for the emergency Security Council meeting was President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel – a move in opposition to decades of US-backed council resolutions on the holy city’s status – and neither friend nor foe of the United States was having anything to do with it.
Bolivia’s United Nations ambassador fumed that if the Security Council did not stand up to the rogue US action, the Council would cease to be anything other than “an occupied territory.”
A group of America’s European allies, some of whose leaders had personally cautioned Mr. Trump against the move, issued a joint statement at
Reemphasis on military power'Almost total abdication' of leadershipA constituency that felt cheated'A post-American era'
