The determination of Trump means the reviving economic and military power of the US
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The
determination of Trump means the reviving economic and military power of the US
A variety of
events in the last two weeks have accentuated a trend by which the United
States steadily enhances its position of leadership and authority in the West,
and the underlying correlation of domestic political forces within the United
States continues to move in favour of President Trump. Trump’s speech on
September 23 to the United Nations was an astonishing and unique address to the
representatives of the world’s 193 accredited nations by the leader of a Great
Power. He excoriated the United Nations as an incompetent, ineffectual,
extravagant and misguided epicentre of hypocrisy and wrong-headedness. He began
with a hilarious description of the escalator stopping a few minutes before as
he and his wife were ascending it, and the fact that his teleprompter was not
working. He said that this was of a piece with his bid years before to renovate
the United Nations building, which he said, he had offered to do to a much
higher standard and at less than a quarter of the cost and on a much tighter
timetable than was provided by the competitor the United Nations selected to do
the work.
The rest of
his critique of the international organisation was less jocular. He stated that
its chief function was the production of ”empty words”, and particularly blamed
it for supporting the two mortal threats to successful government in the
current world, which he identified as unregulated immigration and mindless
pursuit of the fraud of sustainable energy. He referred to the 15 million
people who had entered the United States illegally prior to his current
administration, which had entirely ended that practice. He rebuked the United
Nations agencies that had subsidised illegal immigration into the United States
through misdirected programmes and declared that Europe was now allowing the
entry of undesirable people on a scale the continent could not survive
indefinitely.
He described
the whole argument that climate change was imperilling life on earth as the
most monstrous hoax in the history of the world. He said that global cooling
was succeeded by global warming and settled into climate change since neither
of the other was actually occurring to a significant extent, and referred to
the immensely costly efforts that Western Europe had made to reduce its carbon
footprint by more than 30 per cent, even as the world’s carbon footprint
increased by over 60 per cent. He pointed out that every warning the United
Nations had issued on the subject had been proved to have been unfounded, and
particularly noted that giant windmills had been a total failure, that they
constantly broke, damaged the environment aesthetically, killed huge numbers of
birds, were completely uneconomical, and were entirely produced by China, which
did not, however, have any recourse at all to wind power itself.
He did not
hesitate to commend or denounce individual countries. The new German government
earned the president’s praise for reversing course on global warming and
although he had embraced the president of Brazil on his way in to address the
General Assembly, he condemned Brazil for corruption, oppression of political
opponents, and national disintegration, but said that he and the Brazilian
president would discuss it later in the day privately. Trump clearly blamed the
Ukraine war on Russia and said that the United States could force Russia to
desist by imposing secondary sanctions on those who financed that war by buying
Russian oil and gas. But he pointed out that the European NATO allies had
withheld from him until a few weeks ago the fact that they were buying Russian
oil and gas in such quantities that it effectively financed the war that they
were trying to stop by buying sophisticated weapons from the United States and
donating them to the Ukrainians. The absurdity of this policy and the pusillanimity
of the European powers in making unctuous and purposeful noises about the
Ukraine war and ramping up their opposition to Russia while continuing to
finance that war was so contemptible that he withheld his notorious talents at
ridicule and said that he would be discussing it with the European leaders,
most of whom were present, later in the afternoon.
When he
spoke at the UN in his first term, the audience was restless and not especially
attentive, and there was a lack of seriousness. On Tuesday, his remarks were
paid close attention and he was generously applauded when he began and when he
concluded. The overwhelming influence of the United States in the world was
more conspicuous than at any time since late in the term of President Reagan,
if not President Eisenhower. This has been enhanced by the ever greater
domination of the domestic political processes of the United States by this
President. The extraordinary memorial service conducted for the late
conservative Republican and Christian organiser and influencer Charlie Kirk in
Phoenix Arizona on Sunday, September 21, enabled President Trump, who along
with most of the prominent members of his administration addressed the
gathering of approximately 80,000 people, in terms that were entirely tolerant
of all religious opinions, to ally his Republican administration closely with
the Judeo-Christian traditions of the country.
And while it
was only hinted at, the Democrats, who have generally been more concerned with
the dismissal of a late-night television entertainer for tasteless remarks
about Kirk than they were at the assassination of Kirk, were effectively
arrayed with the forces of political extremism, violence, and godlessness. He
touched upon this theme at the United Nations when he referred to Christians as
the most persecuted religion in the world and denounced the critics of Israel
for having forgotten October 7, 2023. The reviving economic and military power
of America and the unstoppable determination of its leader weigh steadily more
heavily upon the world. Despite stylistic infelicities, there is today no force
on earth remotely as powerful as the decisively focused direction of the United
States government, and this is an objectively good thing.
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