Nonsense at the United Nations

On Tuesday, Donald Trump delivered an unacceptable and disgraceful speech before the United Nations General Assembly. In keeping with the MAGA doctrine he delivered, he insisted on an idea that seems minor, but isn't, because it is a prime example of Trumpist rhetoric: he once again boasted of having ended seven wars since becoming president, something that is also evidently a lie, like almost everything the figure says. Trump is referring to the conflicts between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Congo and Rwanda, Israel and Iran, India and Pakistan, Cambodia and Thailand, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo. In some cases, these are events that occurred during his first term; in others, no peace agreement has been reached, but rather fragile and dubious truces have been established in conflicts that are still ongoing. In still other cases, both sides explicitly deny that Trump's mediation has had any impact on the development of their conflicts. All of this is the triumphalist delirium of someone his sycophants call "sheriff" and "chief peacemaker," while campaigning for the whim that has recently taken hold of him: to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It must be part of the strategy to achieve this: constantly changing his mind and allies on a whim: if a month ago Trump presented himself as Putin's best friend, this time he encouraged Ukraine to recover the territories lost during the war, "and even," after having scorned Zelensky with the unusual scene a few months ago.

On Tuesday, the passivity with which António Guterres, a president of the United Nations more concerned with pleasing Trump than with safeguarding the UN's role as an arbiter of multilateralism and as an organization that must ensure the protection of human rights, attracted attention. The image of Macron calling Trump on his cell phone to break through the police cordon seemed like a self-caricature of Europe's irrelevance on the world stage. To complete the insult, the following day, Argentine President Milei unspooled his decadent story on the same platform, and Felipe VI personified the contradictions and weaknesses of Spanish democracy (a king acting as head of state and spokesperson for the country in which his father, and therefore the royal family, has been the royal family) and avoided the word. genocide to refer to the Israeli government's crimes in Palestine. The intervention by Brazilian President Lula da Silva, who recently gave exemplary treatment to a far-right coup plotter like Bolsonaro, somewhat dignified a dark eighth anniversary of the UN, in which the United Nations was humiliated by a thug with orange face paint, without any reaction.