Russia's isolation over Ukraine war grows at UN rights body

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Source: AP

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s top human rights body overwhelmingly approved a resolution Friday that aims to set up a three-member panel of experts to monitor human rights in Ukraine.

The decision demonstrates growing international unity against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Moscow’s increasing international isolation.

Some 32 of the 47 member states of the U.N. Human Rights Council voted in favor of the resolution while 13 abstained. Only Russia and Eritrea voted against the resolution that was proposed by Western states and others who have spoken out against the invasion.

Several countries that had either openly or tacitly supported Moscow appeared to have backed off from offering that support.

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1. K&R!

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2. Imagine what Putin could have been as the founding father of a new Russia

Imagine what Putin could have been as the founding father of a new Russia

Putin could have used his vast wealth and political adulation:

He could have invested in Russia's manufacturing, to create quality consumer products.

He could have supported innovative entrepreneurs, as a 'venture capitalist' or 'social capitalist' to encourage new businesses and technologies.

He could have invested the country in modernizing its hospitals and schools.

He could have focused Russia on good trade and other relations with all its neighbors and developed a thriving economy as a supplement to its oil/gas income.

He could have developed a thriving profitable tourism business. Its coastline, mountains, cultures, Trans-Siberian Railway, ...

He could have taxed the oligarchs to generate a fair tax and wealth structure in Russia.

He could have really stopped corruption and the omnipresent bribery. Pay decent wages so bribes are not necessary to live; make it clear that if you take bribes, you will be instantly fired from your good-paying job.

He could have built new infrastructure, better trams and subways in Russia's cities.

He could have invested in better roads, better Internet, better everything in Russia's backwards rural areas.

This would have made Putin "the great" after Catherine and Peter.
Putin like Trump is poor in imagination and very poor in greatness.