But standoutagainst a tide of other countries trying to move forward on climate change, as happened at the UN meeting in Bali four years ago, and he'd risk alienating more of the supporters who reportedly are already too disillusioned to bother volunteering for his campaign this time round.
He also said the UN had a responsibility "to stand up against regimes that persecute their people" and singled out Yemen and Syria as being in need of reform.
So I'm very well aware that they will look for minorities that will support their points of view, whether it comes to quote-unquote "black flash mobs" - which an article came out about that this past week that I had to standagainst - or other types of incidences.
That was never in doubt, but the Allies hoped the standagainst Germany's naked aggression would persuade Hitler to step back from the brink of all-out war, a motive that was neither base nor ridiculous.