Trump’s UN speech a delirium of aggression
AKEL C.C. Press Office, 20th September 2017, Nicosia
Yesterday’s speech by US President Donald Trump to the UN General Assembly was an unprecedented delirium of aggression, threats of war, hypocrisy and anti-communism. For sure, this is not the first time that an American president is giving lessons about democracy and peace to the rest of the world, at the same time as the US are leading the way in waging wars, raids and invasions, coup d’états, torture and mass filing and surveillance, and at the same time as the American people are counting millions of homeless, unemployed and poor people. Nonetheless, Tramp has raised the US aggressiveness to new heights by creating existential dangers for the whole of humanity.
With regards Korea, whilst even countries allied to the US in the region are stressing that only diplomacy can give a solution, Trump issued a threat that the US will “completely destroy” the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Furthermore, so as to satisfy Saudi Arabia and Israel, he characterized as “shameful” the agreement the international community, including the United States, had concluded with Iran, that is heralding its denunciation and a new round of chaos in the Middle East.
The US President also issued threats and insults against Latin America. He threatened to take “further action” against Venezuela to overthrow the country’s government, but without saying what right does the US have to have a any say in the internal affairs of a sovereign state. Furthermore, he also provocatively reiterated that he would continue – as his predecessors did – to disregard the UN General Assembly Resolutions by maintaining the criminal blockade against Cuba. The “warnings” he issued for cuts in the US funding for the functioning of the UN and its missions are in essence blackmailing the international community to align itself with the US government.
With Tramp in the leadership of the USA, this marks the stage where US imperialism becomes even more unashamed and ruthless, without even worrying about abandoning all pretense. The progressive forces in the US and the world peace movement have a historic obligation to stop Trump’s plans and that of the American war industry.
Finally, the fact that the multibillionaire and idol of the rejuvenated Ku Klux Klan and American neo-Nazis, Donald Trump is raging against socialism and communist ideology speaks for itself.
