The spoiled brat bully tactics of the US in cutting funds to UNESCO have only embarrassed America all the more. They have only further demeaned themselves. The vote was 107 to 14, a humiliating defeat for US diplomacy. Latvia, Tuvalu and Uzbekistan are among the states which did not follow the US lead against Palestine but which always have done in the past. The USA was also unable to coerce a single African state.
Here is the list of the 14 US puppets, the overwhelmingly defeated states which tried to block Palestine and which either have extreme neo-con governments or are completely susceptible to US aid blackmail, decide for yourself –
Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Israel, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Palau, Panama, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sweden, United States of America, Vanuatu.
Victory to the small nations!
The only two that surprised me were Sweden, and Holland.
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Yes I know what you mean. Holland is in up to the elbows with NATO. Sweden too, and yet there is a liberal tradition in both countries. The neocon virus is powerful and far-travelled.
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