Six years ago, his audience laughed this year, they were silent

Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations was one of the clearest exhibitions of the way he sees the world, his ideology in his raw form.

For his supporters, he will be considered a Trumpism disconnected; To its detractors, Trumpism disturbed.

Over an hour, he targeted his opponents and their ideas, removing them one by one while he visited the world. He started at home, praising the United States and himself. He said that the United States lived through a golden age and repeated his very dissumed assertion that he had personally ended seven wars, which, according to him, deserved a Nobel Peace Prize.

But the president settled in his hosts. The UN, he said, had not helped his peace. He questioned the objective of the organization, saying that he had enormous potential but did not respect this. All he did, he said was to write highly written letters that he did not follow. Empty words, he said, have not ended wars.

He also attacked the UN to help asylum seekers in the hope of entering the United States, saying that “the UN is supposed to stop invasions, not create and not finance them”. The president even attacked the UN for a broken escalator and a telepromitator who disrupted his visit and his speech.

At a level, he has a point. Many analysts question the effectiveness of the UN in the resolution of conflicts these days, pointing in particular the blocking of the Security Council and the insensitive bureaucracy of the organization.

But at another level, Trump can be seen himself a cause and a symptom of the lack of effectiveness of the UN; Because he thinks that global crises are better resolved by powerful men like him meeting and marking an agreement, without using multilateral bodies like the UN to develop collective solutions. Under Trump, the United States has removed a large part of its UN funding, leaving the body forced to cut its humanitarian work around the world.

Trump may have saved his greatest criticism for his European allies, attacking the continent to invest in renewable energies and open his borders to migration.

“Europe is in great difficulty. They have been invaded by a force of illegal foreigners as no one has ever seen before … Ideas for immigration and suicidal energy will be the death of Western Europe,” he said.

Climate change, he said to audible dressings, was “the greatest work ever perpetrated in the world” and was looking for European countries with expensive energy costs compared to fossil fuels. In particular, he criticized the British government for imposing new oil taxes in the North Sea.

“If you don’t get away from the green energy scam, your country will fail,” he said.

“I love Europe. I love Europe. And I hate that it is devastated by energy and immigration. This double -tail monster destroys everything in its wake … You want to be politically correct and you destroy your heritage.”

Note this last point. This echoes what the president said during his state visit to the United Kingdom last week when he talked about the importance of defending the values ​​of what he called “the English-speaking world”.

There is a cultural advantage to Mr. Trump’s criticism of Europe, the feeling that he believes that uncontrolled immigration threatens what he considers as the Judeo Christian heritage of Europe. Not for nothing, Trump is the leader of an administration that firmly carries his religion on his round. “Let us protect religious freedom,” he told the UN, “including for the most persecuted religion on the planet-this is called Christianity.”

On a specific point of policy, the most substantial warning that Trump has given the Russian war against Ukraine. He said that President Putin’s refusal ended the conflict “did not make Russia appear well.” He said that the United States was prepared “to impose a very strong round of powerful prices” to end the bloodshed. But he said that European nations had to stop buying Russian energy, saying that he only discovered that some were doing it.

In practice, Hungary and Slovakia are the only substantial European Russian oil buyers. Diplomats say that Mr. Trump hides behind this so that he does not have to impose secondary sanctions on India and China which both buy huge amounts of cheap Russian energy, both of which were cited by Trump.

Perhaps more important than his speech was Trump’s social media position shortly later, where he said for the first time that Ukraine could be able to win back all its territory.

His dismissal from Russia as a “paper tiger” and not a “real military power” will injure President Putin, who is sensitive to any suggestion that his country is not a global player. The diplomats said it was the last example of Mr. Trump’s trip to a position that is more critical of Russia.

But you always have to treat Trump’s words with a pinch of salt. He was only optimistic a few moments after meeting Ukrainian President Zelensky at the UN.

And he said that Ukraine could reconquer a territory with the support of the EU and NATO; There was no mention of the involvement of the United States. All the evidence of recent years is that it is a war of slow attrition and that Ukraine would not resume the lands of Russia without massive military support.

So it was Trump not diluted; A defense of America and the nation state, an assault against multilateralism and globalism, a flow of conscience with questionable affirmations.

Six years ago, Trump’s audience at the UN laughed at his sometimes unclogged affirmations; This year, they listened to largely in silence.

“I am really good in this kind of thing,” he told world leaders. “Your countries go to hell.”