In a 40-minute speech before UNGA that ranged from the Middle East and Ukraine to climate change, AI , drug cartels and the future of the UN itself, Trump defended the US-Israeli war against Iran and said he believed Tehran would ultimately agree to a deal after America’s November midterm elections.
In a 40-minute speech before the United Nations General Assembly that ranged from the Middle East and Ukraine to climate change, artificial intelligence, drug cartels and the future of the UN itself, Trump defended the US-Israeli war against Iran and said he believed Tehran would ultimately agree to a deal after America’s November midterm elections.
“I have a big decision to make,” Trump told the assembled leaders, transparently reflecting a quandary. He suggested that Iran could instead become “one of the greatest” countries in the Middle East if it agreed to terms acceptable to Washington. Trump devoted an unexpectedly large portion of his address to artificial intelligence, rechristening the technology “super intelligence” and presenting American dominance in the field as a strategic imperative. On the eve of Chinese President Xi’s visit to Washington this week, he said the United States was “leading now over China by a lot” and argued that he would not restrict a technology he believes could prove more consequential than the Industrial Revolution. Trump also torched the International Criminal Court, urged countries to withdraw from it, criticised what he described as an expanding “globalist” bureaucracy at the UN and touted cuts to the organization’s budget and staff under his administration.
“Will a deal be made with Iran … or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly? The UN itself was attacked by the US President for funding mass migration that, in his view, threatened western civilisation.