The escalating crisis in #Idlib - and #UNSC inaction echoes the #SecurityCouncil's breakdown over #Aleppo in 2016, a fundamental but rapidly forgotten failure in @UN's decline. [1/3]
@UN Back in 2016, the siege of #Aleppo felt like a looming "#Srebrenica moment" that would cause a huge shock to the #UNSC (a lot of diplomats in NYC used the phrase). Yet after the siege - and anger and vetoes @UN - diplomats moved along pretty smartly. [2/3] ecfr.eu/article/commen…
@UN Why did the world forget #Aleppo? Because the siege climaxed as Trump, who had written the city off as a lost cause, won the U.S. elections and absorbed global attention. The UN skipped a moral reckoning, and the #UNSC looks pretty exhausted facing #Idlib. worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/23430…
