OPINION:
President Trump is tired of globalists’ exploitation of Western societies. Speaking before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, the president offered world leaders a road map for reclaiming lost greatness.
He delivered a dire warning to the European democracies that have fallen under the spell of open borders and climate change theology. “Both the immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe if something is not done immediately. This cannot be sustained,” he said.
It’s rare to see an American president speak so frankly from the podium, risking the inevitable tut-tut from ink-stained scolds worldwide. “It’s not politically correct,” Mr. Trump said. “I’ll be very badly criticized for saying it, but I’m here to tell the truth. I don’t care. It doesn’t matter to me.”
The primary mission of the United Nations, formed in the aftermath of World War II, is supposed to be defusing cross-border disputes before they spiral into armed conflict. The 47th president was keen to remind the crowd that the international body had failed spectacularly in that mission.
In less than a year, Mr. Trump resolved deadly skirmishes between Pakistan and India, Thailand and Cambodia, and Armenia and Azerbaijan. As he brought bitter rivals to the negotiating table, Turtle Bay dignitaries were nowhere to be found.
“At least for now, all they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up,” the president said. He never received a phone call offering help in finalizing the ceasefire deals.
Instead of advancing peace, today’s U.N. bureaucrats are consumed by a desire to impose their ideology on the rest of the planet, including the United States. Last year, the United Nations sent $372 million to nongovernmental organizations, unleashing a flood of uninvited foreigners into our country.
“The U.N. also provided food, shelter, transportation and debit cards to illegal aliens — can you believe that — on the way to infiltrate our southern border,” Mr. Trump said.
The president went on to say the “globalist migration agenda” destroys the character of a nation, eroding its unique culture and intuitions. Globalist energy policies are equally ruinous. Economies have burned trillions of dollars on the pyre of green energy under the delusion that a bureaucrat in Brussels or Paris can alter the global thermostat through treaties and accords.
“It’s nonsense,” Mr. Trump explained. “The primary effect of these brutal green energy policies has not been to help the environment, but to redistribute manufacturing and industrial activity from developed countries that follow the insane rules that are put down, to polluting countries that break the rules and are making a fortune.”
When nations distract themselves with side quests, such as becoming an asylum for the planet’s refugees or chasing arbitrary carbon dioxide reduction targets, they lose sight of the fundamental values that matter most.
The American people realized this in November, and even Europeans have increasingly turned to alternative political parties. Some of those might even take power if they are allowed to participate in the election.
“Let us defend free speech and free expression,” Mr. Trump concluded. “Let us protect religious liberty, including for the most persecuted religion on the planet today. It’s called Christianity. And let us safeguard our sovereignty and cherish qualities that have made each of our nations so special, incredible and extraordinary.”
Europeans should pay close attention to these words. Their future depends on it.
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