Edwardsson: Trump skickade en varning till FN

Anders Edvardsson Political Scientist Welcome here Thank you Donald Trump delivered a very strong speech at the United Nations General Assembly He strongly criticizes the UN among other things What can be said about this statement and his comments on the UN Yes he was the one in a speech where the UN celebrated 80 years Yes it was a historic speech but I believe in many ways In a way that the UN and its friends did not wish for Because in practice it turned out to be a one-hour scolding About what the UN has become and how it doesn't work so to speak Well it was FN was created once in the past on American initiative more or less After World War II as a way to try to create an international system that would prevent new world wars Men since they then had to share with the Soviet Union and the ideological conflicts that existed between the two superpowers it became Yes from the beginning it didn't become much more than a finger's tip They have done a lot of good over the decades on the field by drilling wells and help the starving and injections against dangerous diseases and such things Politically it has been either a refuge or a playground depending on the international situation They haven't managed to do anything bigger or more lasting in practice since they were formed There was a great deal of hope and trust in the UN during Dag Hammarskjöld's time But Dag Hammarskjöld was also murdered What Trump says is that he criticizes the UN for not They are toothless he says He claims that she has brokered peace in several countries without receiving help from the UN in any of the cases What is Trump trying to achieve with this I think above all one should see this figure as a warning signal Trump is really good at this and sending signals He hasn't really focused much on the UN He didn't do much during his first period At the beginning of his second he's had different priorities Ukraine and crime fighting at home and closing the border with Mexico and such FN represents just a certain ideological or rather theoretical world view This so-called internationalist liberalism dates all the way back to the German philosopher Kant If all the world's countries became democratic and started trading with each other and politically socially and culturally cooperating lasting peace would eventually emerge That's a beautiful vision and it has had a huge impact It had a huge influence especially in Europe after Europe almost killed itself through two world wars That's just a theory a vision or what many would call an illusion For it has turned out that regardless of how many democracies we get and how much countries trade with each other Then war and unrest will break out anyway This undermines first of all it is a weakness in itself and then it undermines the trust in this globalist new world order that has emerged over the past 30 years Well he's Trump and for this reason as well as others quite negatively disposed towards him She has a completely different theoretically based world order that is more based on the idea that the world is as it is It consists of and should continue to consist of completely independent national states that are eager to cooperate as much as possible One must be aware that because human nature is what it is there will always be problems dangers and even wars and disasters But they must somehow be handled by the international community as a collective rather than as a single entity which is the idea behind the UN All countries in practice in politics it's like a huge global EU that was originally intended for countries to give up some independence The bigger good and then the UN would take care of it and play the role of the police and fix the world It didn't work at all during the Cold War because when the Soviet Union supported something the US opposed it and vice versa Even after this the UN has in practice only been a paper tiger that becomes serious as soon as something needs to be taken more seriously So the US has basically sent American troops partly Europeans Frenchmen Englishmen if something serious is to happen so to speak FN has indeed remained a discussion club It has approved certain actions over the years the Korean War the Gulf War in 1990 bu It didn't really happen through the UN itself so to speak It was thanks to the US that the two resolutions could be carried out So that's something Trump and other Americans have been receiving for a long time and they also pay much more than anyone else to this paper tiger At the top of everything else if we are to mention everything it's just that the system is thoroughly corrupted It has become a brothel for the world's dictatorships I mean this infamous council which for what it's worth seems to always include countries like Iran North Korea Syria and others He successfully used NATO for many years He threatened to leave NATO if Europeans didn't start paying which gave them such a scare that eventually they did start paying So I think this should be seen somewhat as a favorite when it comes to it Yes the UN Human Rights Council is well more than half composed of dictatorships if I'm not completely mistaken It changes from year to year It has been more than half dictatorships in any case In the talk Trump criticizes very much He criticizes China and India for supporting Russia by buying oil and thereby supporting and keeping the war against Ukraine going He also criticizes NATO I think the EU has a plan to become independent of Russian gas by 2027 and many believe it won't work It will take longer than that What do you think about it Yes there are many people who complain that Trump just talks from the hip so to speak thinking one thing one day and another the next Men he takes a couple of steps back and swallows and you can clearly see that Carn has obviously a more elaborate plan For almost all of these themes they are connected in a larger whole in this speech He indirectly criticized China and India by buying oil and funding the war against Ukraine He also tried First he tried to lure Putin to the negotiating table You mixed your American optimism with a mysterious reality Now he has moved from rhetoric to action and has started using a tougher language towards Moscow NATO countries and shooting down Russian planes if they violate She has also handled it properly so Ukraine can actually get out of this war without authoritarian losses which is completely new It was a big part of his original peace plan that he wanted peace so badly that he considered it worth a province or two in Ukraine to end this mass uprising She has changed the language here and now is putting all the pressure on Moscow Both economically and politically it has been shaped by the criticism of India and China and now also regarding NATO and Ukraine It shows that he has a larger plan where the different movable parts he fine-tunes and changes but the goal remains the same He also urges caution in his speech regarding weapons of mass destruction This is also the same week that Russia is trying to bomb the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine What does Trump hope to gain from this conflict He wants peace in this conflict between Russia and Ukraine He's not that sensitive or has not been at least as I just hinted at He can imagine territorial boundary changes to get peace or he has done it anyway I think that's still what he's sticking to even though he's changed the language a bit He possesses nuclear and biological and other weapons of mass destruction Trump hates war and he is not a military person even though he is willing to take a hard stance when needed He belongs to a generation that grew up during the Cold War This nuclear war threat of the 50s 60s 70s and 80s which I partially grew up with also For us who were there nuclear biological and chemical weapons have a special place in our minds That was the big fear when growing up and I think I still see him now He is willing to pay any price to prevent such weapons from being used We saw earlier this year that he was ready to bomb Iran to stop their nuclear program If the Russians start trying to bomb nuclear power plants and other targets that falls pretty much within the same region so to speak I think that was mainly a warning to Russia not to play with fire here You probably have problems She has certainly called them a paper tiger and other things It fits into a larger picture even if it's hard to see exactly how I think it's very much about which generation he belongs to Trump also basically criticizes the entire EU for its immigration policy Why is this important for Trump and why is this criticism so harsh It is important for the West He has expressed the exact same opinions about the US before he became president The streets back then this uncontrolled mass migration and the subsequent lack of demands for assimilatio It is a potential culture destroyer We have seen this partially in the USA but mostly in Europe Many of Europe's countries are now on the verge of ceasing to function in many ways Britain has emerged as the saddest example right now Otherwise it would have been Germany and France earlier which have been closest Mass immigration has reached such a level that societies are beginning to crack Sweden is also there in some areas if you say outside of Stockholm and Malmö especially Uppsala and Gothenburg to some extent The linguistic religious cultural and ethnic divisions have become so large tha The large group does not respect the police and other authorities Language difficulties gang violence there's no need to explain this to Swedes It's exactly what Trump warned Europe about If you keep going this way it will happen I think he literally speaks Using the word will send it to hell Because that's exactly what it's about to do Britain is obviously crippled in some areas due to such things Let's call it what it is ethnic conflicts because that's what it has become Here he uses the sledgehammer to try to punch a hole in this one The dominant European discourse that all immigration is good the more the better We will be kind we will not demand linguistic or cultural adaptation because that is considered racism Oh man you can't deny that certain immigrant groups are more prone to crime This doesn't need to be explained to Swedes who have seen and heard it Something other than old media in the last 20-25 years It's in a way the emperor in the naked with the famous boy who finally said it publicly Trump is playing that role here For Europe it has almost not been possible to talk about this until now Everything is quiet here and the lid is put on and it is whispered and it is stifled Left started talking about the problems of decreasing freedom of speech back in the spring And I think once again we see the outline of a larger picture here To save the Western world is this administration's ambition From cultural sclerosis political sclerosis they read the louse of the Europeans because they simply behave foolishly The USA also has a very big problem with the border with Mexico Fentanyl and opioid overdoses are the absolute most common cause of death among young people It is a hybrid war from China He points out in this speech how many European prisons were born in other countries But he also goes into Palestine He strongly opposes countries recognizing Palestine now What is the criticism based on That has its own history The closeness and friendship between the United States and Israel have been strong and warm from the beginning The USA initially recognized Israel largely due to its dependence The former president's personal friendship with several Jews In the light of the Holocaust these details had begun to come out Years after the war how bad it had been That created a special friendship between Tel Aviv and Washington It has spread throughout American society Due to cultural political and religious reasons There are relatively many Jewish Americans Among religious Christian evangelical Americans there is a belief that The Jews must be allowed to return home before Jesus can come back The USA and Israel are small countries by themselves A new immigrant land in an environment populated by what they see as wilder The American case was once the Indians For the Israelis it is mostly hostile Arabs and Muslims The American-Israeli friendship exists on many different levels Trump goes out and says he doesn't want to reward the Palestinians and thereby Hamas For these huge crimes that they know about here every year with this attack on Israel It's not surprising at all It would be rather surprising if one had suggested the opposite I am sure that the USA may one day consider recognizing some form of Palestinian state They must get rid of Hamas and there must be some form of functioning democracy They have proven the complete opposite throughout their entire existence since 1948 Trump has been criticized by many and all political opponents call him a dictator What is the long-term goal What does Trump want to achieve I actually think it's that simple He simply wanted to do a favor for his home country Many others including Han believe that the US has lost its way in recent decades Various facilities taxes have become too high regulations too many immigration too large The crackdown on cattle rustlers and bandits has become too obvious He was a multi-billionaire world-famous with a fantastic family a beautiful wife She has never been really interested in politics Why would he enter politics if he didn't have a genuine interest in doing something He doesn't do it for the money he doesn't do it for the fame he doesn't do it for the women I think Trump is a square person he talks like a construction worker as someone said That disrupts so many people in so many different ways He doesn't play the political game he doesn't sound like a politician He thinks outside the political and academic boxes and above all he has no respect For established elites or established opinions He rather has a young boy's joy in challenging the established norms and such I think you have to see him for that he's good and bad You don't need to agree with everything he says to understand He's just trying to do something he genuinely believes in But then it's because he's the guy who's pushing for so many different groups Academics elites globalists immigrants proponents free traders He almost hasn't missed a single established group at least once or twice Oh well that's just it that everyone has become in order to continue being accepted in the finer circles You can't like Trump It's that simple Being against him has become a class marker in some way It's quite clear now during his second term that it's beginning to slowly but surely fade away He attended some NATO meeting here last month where he was treated completely differently He was called dad and I have no idea what it was There is also a certain shift among many European leading politicians They still have the suspicion and distrust remaining at lower levels such as academics civil servants and so on I think people understand that we have to live with him for another three and a half years There's no point in continuing to act the way we have because it led nowhere There's something so provocative and provocative about just making even more This criticism of China and India for buying Russian oil and NATO for buying Russian gas Kenya is allied with Russia and Iran in a way that no other countries are India wants the US to take its side but right now India has been moving closer to China Because of the high tariffs that the US has imposed on India How do you think the recalibration happening from Washington is working It all depends entirely on which region and which level you are looking at this from Right now there is a problem between India and the USA We had several economic reasons India has a history of being in conflict with China Men now they seem to be trying to find each other in a kind of enemy of the enemy this with Trump's tariffs I am quite convinced that for historical and cultural reasons the US and India will eventually find each other He's the big ego here who's crashing We'll just have to see how long it takes But the big problem the hardest nut to crack is China It was due to political ideological economic and military reasons Kina will be the dominant force in Southeast Asia Even though Trump is in favor of a much more limited and peaceful foreign policy It has been over a hundred years since there have been significant interests in East Asia I think that is classic great power complications Plus this is that the Chinese regime formally still a communist regime has indeed built this so-called Chinese economic miracle All one leg It's a chair that stands one leg so to speak Oh it's just mass exports of cheap goods Since the USA is the world's largest market the USA is absolutely essential To prevent the Chinese economy from collapsing This is something Trump has realized and said that you have exploited us for decades It's time for you to start paying your share by paying tariffs They don't like this and it has a lot to do with Asian culture - not backing down especially not foreigners So that's an ongoing rot that's coming It will probably take several years before it gets resolved so to speak Kenya has now promised in several rounds that we will accept these customs agreements They start to muddle and protest again after a week and a month As mentioned it's an ongoing process I think as I said to get back to your broader question in the long ru since I cannot see how China could possibly avoid and adapt to the new American trade policy in the long run We simply cannot afford and do not have as low tariffs as possible against the American market So I think that around the world it will be that India will realize It is better to be a friend of the United States than to be a friend of one of its enemies They are big egos as they say there are big countries involved so it may take some time before it settles If you liked this you are welcome to subscribe to our newspaper You will now receive the magazine delivered to your mailbox and unlimited web access for just 49 kronor the first month