The United States failed to live up to its best history, values, and long-term interests when it voted against a U.N. resolution on Monday to condemn Russia lightly on the third anniversary of its invasion of Ukraine.

President Donald Trump rightly wants to secure a lasting peace that ends this war. It has taken hundreds of thousands of lives and destabilized Europe. But the president must understand that a just peace won’t be delivered by hat-tips to Russian President Vladimir Putin at the United Nations. Aside from Israel (which voted in solidarity with the U.S.), every major American ally voted for the General Assembly vote. America’s embarrassing allies in the voting “no” camp were Russia and a who’s who of tyrannies and autocracies — North Korea, Belarus, and Russian mercenary-dominated Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. Even China and Iran voted to abstain. It speaks poorly of Trump’s understanding of Putin that he was unwilling even to abstain on this vote.