Correct me if I’m wrong, but shouldn’t Mexico be lit up as well?
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This map shows how this issue is mainly just a symbolic West-vs-Rest struggle by proxy. Nobody much cares about the actual parties involved.
Exactly. Same with Ukraine. Ukraine is on the right side, but the US and the EU didn't help them out of altruism, its because it aligns with the interests of the West.
Always the same map
Wasn’t that the one Russia was using to scapegoat ukraine as neonazi even though Russia is far closer to facism itself.
Also, most of eastern europe incl Ukraine has recognised palestine, but they aren’t green on the map you shared.
What is even happening here, I feel like I'm missing a lot of context
In 2020, Jean-Yves Le Drian, then French minister of Europe and foreign affairs, justified France's abstention by condemning the Russian resolution at the UN as "a reductive discourse designed to divide Europeans by equating all opponents of Soviet forces with the Nazi regime
In the context of the war in Ukraine – and with Russia justifying its invasion, which began on 24 February, by the desire to "denazify" the country – many states that had previously abstained decided to vote against the resolution this year. This is the case for all the member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, except Turkey, which abstained.