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“President Donald Trump castigated the United Nations as a feckless institution in a speech to the world body on Tuesday, praising the turn America has taken under his leadership while warning Europe will be ruined if it doesn’t turn away from a ‘double-tailed monster’ of ill-conceived migration and green energy policies.” AP News
The left criticizes Trump’s speech, and defends the United Nations.
“The president treated the world’s representatives to a narcissist’s view of a planet that could reach the incredible heights achieved by America under his leadership, if only everyone would acknowledge his greatness and emulate his example… The ‘invasion’ of the U.S. by ‘25 million’ migrants has ended! Inflation has been ‘defeated’! The hellhole of Washington, D.C., is a crime-free paradise! All that was missing was Lee Greenwood singing ‘God Bless the U.S.A.’…
“Trump made equally wild claims about world conditions with and without his leadership. Wars didn’t exist until he left office (under rather conspicuous protest) in 2021, then flared up everywhere, and now are being rapidly resolved via his personal intervention… If only, Trump suggested, the world’s nations would close their borders and drill, baby, drill (or perhaps buy oil and gas from the USA), all would be well.”
Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine
“Trump [shows] no interest in reforming the most dysfunctional part of the UN system, the Security Council. It still has the same five veto-wielding members as it did in 1945… The council is widely considered unreformable because neither America nor Russia and China would ever contemplate giving up the veto privilege that gums up what could be an international peacekeeping organ…
“Richard Gowan, the UN director at the International Crisis Group, told me that Trump in fact likes this status quo because it ‘matches his worldview of a handful of great powers conducting the real business while little countries get out of the way.’ The hypocrisy consists in then blaming the UN, rather than the great powers, for failing to maintain international order.”
Andreas Kluth, Bloomberg
“[The UN] has acted where politics allowed… The Black Sea Grain Initiative, brokered with Turkey, moved millions of tons of food through a war zone and helped hold down global prices until Moscow walked away. In Gaza and Sudan, UN relief agencies have organized convoys, negotiated pauses in fighting, and kept some aid moving, even when governments and armed groups blocked wider access. These efforts don’t stop wars, but they reduce the damage.”
Brian O’Neill, The Contrarian
The right praises Trump’s speech, and criticizes the United Nations.
The right praises Trump’s speech, and criticizes the United Nations.
“President Trump breaks political conventions almost daily, for better or worse. But sometimes his candor has the advantage of speaking truths that no one else dares to recognize. And so he did Tuesday in New York when he told the United Nations General Assembly that it is increasingly irrelevant…
“Mr. Trump also dared to violate the holiest of U.N. holies by casting doubt on its preoccupation with climate change. The ‘greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,’ Mr. Trump said. That arguably goes too far, since global temperatures have climbed. But he’s surely right if he means that the trillions of dollars spent to stop the rise in temperature have accomplished nothing other than encourage political rent-seeking.”
Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal
“Trump is absolutely fearless, and it is a breath of fresh air. Diplomatic doublespeak is fine when things are going well enough and we are discussing middling issues such as food standards and minor trade disputes, but when it comes to war and peace, the migration crisis, and the assault on economic and political freedom we are facing, truth is the weapon we need to use, not niceties.”
David Strom, Hot Air
“The world is awash in threats to international peace and security. Yet, the U.N. is paralyzed, unable to effectively deter Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, China’s assaults on Philippine sovereignty in the South China Sea, or Al-Qaeda’s march across Africa…
“Longstanding conflicts in the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, and elsewhere are not being resolved despite expensive U.N. peacekeeping operations that have been in place for years, sometimes decades…
“The World Health Organization proved close to useless in the face of a pandemic, the very challenge it was built to solve. The International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice have been misused to advance political campaigns against Israel… The time has come for the United States to pay for [the] portion of [the UN] that still works — and abandon what remains.”
Danielle Pletka and Brett D. Schaefer, National Review
