The text was “highly problematic in countless respects,” Ambassador Dan Negrea, US representative to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), said prior to the vote.
He regretted that Washington “must once again remind this body that the United Nations exists to maintain international peace and security” and “was not founded to advance narrow specific interests and agendas, to establish niche International Days, or to create new costly meeting and reporting mandates.”
Furthermore, the US “does not recognise a legal right to reparations for historical wrongs that were not illegal under international law at the time they occurred.”
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/03/1167199
This is the cope American liberals use, that it’s unfair for the US to pay for reparations or anything in international affairs.
As if the US is just poor smol beans and not the number 1 war profiteer and financial overlord of the world.
If the Americans can find billions of dollars to ruin the global oil and fertiliser trade, they can find some billions to fucking pay back the countries they looted.
damnit you beat me to it
Also Oman (it knows what it did).
Ireland and Spain abstained, massive fucking L
Spain is really no surprise given they might be on the hook for some reparation payments too.
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That’s how every UN vote goes these days. It’s basically the explicit, official position of the USA that International Law such as it is:
- Protects but does not bind the USA
- Binds but does not protect everyone else
Without looking into it, I would guess that this particular UN vote was basically just a performance vote to demonstrate just how psycho the USA is about that sort of thing.
