So to replace investment and businesses and replace goods that are traded. russia has options. the un vote on march 2 is a rough guide. five countries voting against the resolution to end the offensive in ukraine. russia of course and belarus, north korea, syria. 35 ab staining. china and india. 140 voting in favor. we re seeing the conflict splitting the world. the map produced by the economists set out the long term stance of countries on this war. those that broadly support the west in the very pale orange. trying to stay neutral like india in dark orange. in red those that directly support moscow or staying close to the narrative on the war including china. this is not an isolated russia. but a potential redrawing of the global order when it comes to geo politics and trade.
Time around. people are off compass. the big factors are three of them. the first is what happens to the supporters of the father left character. we know that to the right of macron to the left of macron. there are about 30% of voters and the extreme right candidate is supporting le pen. that leaves them roughly the level macron is now. the other factor is ab staining. can the characters appeal to the remarkable 25% of the electorate that didn t vote in the first round and trying to get votes from them. anything, five, six, 10% would be remarkable. although he said to followers not a single vote for le pen. the question is whether not supporting her is sufficient or whether in fact they need to some of those shift over and transfer the votes to macron. if not, there s an uphill struggle for him as well. that s where the
Aircraft that s going to be the next air force one, being $4 billion, we re not paying for that. perhaps then there is a strategy. but it just sort of seems like the strategy is kind of confusion. molly, how much do you think the obama administration s decision to abstain from that u.n. vote, which is used as a setback for our relations with israel? a lot of democrats took a stand against the president, correct? absolutely. i mean, one of the key democrats to take up stand against it was senator schumer, incoming minority leader of the senate. so especially when trump gets involved in the beginning, it s just unclear as to what effect or impact that had on president obama s decision. but it sounds like it s sort of muddied the water for president obama moving forward with either ab staining or vetoing. erin, trump tweeted against the president s position on this, and this morning in a new article, the new york times characterizes trump s transition so far as a bit of a turf war