451. Is Trump Destroying the UN?

The Rest Is Politics

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Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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0:13.2	Donald Trump is deliberately trying to undermine the United Nations, politically, financially,
0:17.5	in every other way. One of the problems for the UN at the moment, it obviously doesn't have any voice, really,
0:22.7	in Ukraine, doesn't have any voice in Gaza.
0:24.8	On Gaza, the vote on the Security Council was 14 to 1, and the one was the United States.
0:30.2	Trump is so open about the fact that he rejects all of that.
0:33.1	No interest in international human rights.
0:34.8	No interest in international law.
0:36.6	America first all the way.
0:37.7	Israel is never going to be secure unless Palestinians have freedom. And Palestinians are never
0:43.5	going to have freedom unless Israel is secure. Is it just that because they have this seeming
0:48.5	blank check from Donald Trump, that they don't really care what the rest of the world thinks?
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