UN security council vote trumps all.
Back in the early 60s, my father, a Marine officer with firsthand experience and considerable understanding of the eastern cultures, told me that the west would always get taken in negotiating with them because we refuse to understand how they think. That we would always act as if they reasoned as we do and expect them to react as we do. 50 years later the western leaders are still doing the same things and expecting different results. Reagan being the exception.
We are again doomed to lose. Being led down the rabbit hole by a black Jimmy Carter.