"Better together. That's the optimistic theme that Annalena Baerbock, the new president of the United Nations General Assembly, chose for this year's global gathering, the 80th. President Donald Trump instead confirmed in his speech what I keep hearing from the cognoscenti here at UNGA: The likelier trajectory points toward worse apart. As is his wont, Trump heaped contempt on the U.N. as on other countries and people he disdains. The two things I got from the United Nations, he sneered, are a bad escalator"
"And while he, the peacemaker-in-chief, was allegedly out ending seven wars, sadly, in all cases, the United Nations did not even try to help. This is today the sound of America the co-founder, host and eight-decade underwriter of the U.N. system eating its children like Cronus. And the stony faces and occasionally audible gasps are those of the assembled world dreading the fate of what diplomats call the international community minus one."
Annalena Baerbock framed the 80th UN General Assembly around 'Better together' to emphasize multilateral cooperation. President Donald Trump denigrated the U.N., mocking facilities and claiming the organization did not assist in his efforts to end wars. U.S. behavior shifted from chief funder and underwriter to an antagonistic posture that threatens the cohesion of the international system. Many conservatives characterize the U.N. as a bloated, ineffectual bureaucracy or even anti-American. Tensions over Israel and Palestine intensified at the gathering, deepening divisions among Western allies and the broader U.N. membership.
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