Christoph Heusgen published “The War in Ukraine Will Be a Historic Turning Point” in Foreign Affairs, 12 May 2022. In the section “Playing by the Rules” he writes in the first person about December 2018, when he was Germany’s ambassador to the UN. He and “nearly all” fellow representatives, he says, received a note from U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley: if they voted for a General Assembly resolution condemning the United States’ plan to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, she would report them to President Trump. “I was stunned.” He asked to see Haley, “with whom I was friendly,” and “explained to her my incredulous reaction.”
He writes that during Germany’s 2019–2020 Security Council tenure “the United States repeatedly violated UN Security Council resolutions,” listing withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA), recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara. He adds U.S. withdrawals from the WHO, the Paris climate agreement, and UNESCO. Then: “Trump advanced a narrow-minded ‘America first’ policy instead of a global view of the common good.”
The same essay says he later “joined forces” with Haley’s successor, Kelly Craft, to rally countries to condemn China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority. That cooperation is in his telling. It is part of the record. This page does not drop it. The Fact is the byline: he published these sentences. They are not a U.S. court finding. Haley’s note, as he describes it, is his recollection; this site does not reprint a Haley PDF this pass.