
Might Not Use a Nuke, Even if Russia DoesĮlon Musk Stole My Old Plan for Peace in Ukraine. and Russia Are Both Running Their Annual Nuclear-War Exercises Right Now. The weapon doesn’t exist as yet, its mission is unclear, and existing nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles travel at hypersonic speed. defense spending, but his talk of unheard-of advanced weapons-probably the hypersonic glider, which he recently called a “hydrasonic” missile and nicknamed the “superduper”-is exaggeration. would come to the defense of a member nation under attack.įourth, Trump has boosted U.S. Third, NATO nations are spending moderately more on defense, but trans-Atlantic cohesion is at an all-time low, thanks to Trump’s incessant dissing of alliances in general and this alliance in particular, even casting doubt on whether the U.S.

“There is no blood in the sand,” he said, citing a common description of Middle Eastern politics. He boasted that he had eliminated ISIS “100 percent.” He claimed that NATO is stronger than ever and that new American weapons are “at an advanced level like we’ve never had before, like we’ve never even thought of before,” and claimed that, with this new strength, America is “fulfilling its destiny as a peacemaker,” citing the deals struck between Serbia and Kosovo as well as the “landmark peace deals” involving Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates.

In the speech (which, like those of most other leaders this year, was prerecorded remotely), Trump railed at China for spreading the COVID-19 pandemic and for ravaging the environment, claiming that the United States last year lowered carbon emissions more steeply than any other country but gets no credit for it. address by a major leader ever-in a monotonously hectoring tone that didn’t bother paying even lip service to the body’s international ideals. President Donald Trump essentially flipped the finger at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday morning, delivering a speech just seven minutes long-not quite half his allotted time, possibly the shortest U.N.
