This week, the United Nations General Assembly has left an image of division and loss of influence, marked by the aggressive speeches of some of its leaders, such as Donald Trump, who directly threatened Iran with “annihilating” the Islamic Republic from the rostrum.
“Should I make a deal with Iran that will allow them to rebuild and create a country bigger than it has ever been before? Or should I annihilate the Islamic Republic? Doing it very quickly so that they can’t attack more people or more countries. Take them to hell so that they have no more opportunities or hope to see future generations grow up. I think we will reach an agreement after the elections because it would make no sense for them not to,” the US president said during his speech.
Trump’s speech shows the “little relevance” of the UN
Fernando Arancón analyzes in The World Order of Julia on the Wavewith Carmen Juan, how Trump has once again told the Iranians that “either the front door or the infirmary” and how they have seen, in many of these speeches, “chair dancing” because other delegations got up and left.
All this, according to the international expert, is what clearly shows “how little relevance” the United Nations Assembly has been this year and the “slow and progressive decline” it is experiencing: “Trump exemplifies this very well because, in the end, it is in the place of peace, of negotiation, of world diplomacy, where he makes these displays of force and threat of destruction.”
“It has been a totally Martian thing” because Trump has not been the only one. The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, even said on the platform that he could not be “silenced” and that “Israel did not commit a genocide”, but that Israel “avoided a genocide.” Arancón assures that this, adding the words of Delcy Rodríguez thanking Trump for the change in Venezuela or Emmanuel Macron complaining about the situation, shows that we have witnessed a “quite strange” General Assembly due to the “climate” and the “shocking” nature of giving this type of speech at the UN.
Trade truce between the US and China
In parallel, the United States and China seem to be seeking a truce in their trade and technological war, which is seen in the words that Trump dedicated to Xi Jinping, in a gesture that Fernando Arancón interprets as an attempt to “get closer” and reduce the tension between both powers.
“Jinping is going to be the only person Trump has spoken well about because he had very good words,” explains the expert. From the words of the American president it can be deduced that “he is seeking a certain rapprochement” with China, which, of course, “does not represent a solution to the economic and technological war that has been open since Trump’s first term”, but it does represent an “extension”: “The United States and China are seeking some relaxation in the economic war they have.”
