Watching President Trump address the United Nations General Assembly last week, I couldn’t help but think of how for years left-wing globalists have dreamed of some semblance of a one-world government. For them, Donald Trump has turned that dream into a sweaty, heart-pounding 3 a.m. nightmare. Careful what you wish for, I suppose.
But love him or hate him, have we ever witnessed a U.S. president whose influential leadership has seemingly been at the epicenter of everything happening on the entire globe? From stopping or negotiating the end of wars, to a complete realignment of world trade, Trump’s influence and reach across the world is as undeniable as it is historic.
Decades of unfettered immigration and a significant reliance on so-called renewable energy have devastated Europe. Trump’s lambasting of these countries in his U.N. address for such destructive policies reminded me of some tough love being dished out by the parents of a kid failing out of school, or an intervention for a drug addict.
Isn’t it overwhelmingly refreshing to have a U.S. president address the United Nations with hard, unvarnished truths, as opposed to the normal plethora of meaningless platitudes draped in global “kumbaya” drivel or ideological pablum like “the world is ending” climate-change alarmism?
We should be forever grateful for having the priceless gift of a crystal ball bestowed to us by Europe — and the Biden Administration for that matter — vis-a-vis the existentially disastrous effects of the aforementioned policies of open borders, attacks on fossil fuels, and green energy obsession that have significantly damaged much of Europe, and caused plenty of the same misery here, albeit on a smaller, and hopefully more temporary scale — particularly after dodging the bullet of a potential Kamala Harris presidency that surely would have continued to champion these perennially failed policies.
“Leftist dogmas about green energy and open borders are a proven curse on both continents,” Trump said.
New York Post Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Michael Goodwin writes, “Any citizens of Europe who watched or read Trump’s speech with an open mind must be wondering why their leaders are sticking with policies that are clear failures. In particular, Trump repeatedly hit the target in damning Europe’s refusal to exploit its vast energy resources while agreeing to virtually unchecked and unvetted migration. He essentially compared Europe to Joe Biden’s policies, which he derided as massive failures and even con jobs.”
Michael Zais is a political blogger for the Drunken Republican.
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Trump is spot on. Such policies fly in the face of public safety and economic stability and growth, and are cloaked in destructive left wing ideology. They improve the lives of precisely no one. In Europe, this has manifested itself in mass protests all over the continent, as well as significant gains by conservative parties in European Parliament elections in 2024.
Victor Davis Hanson, a conservative and Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, wrote of the scourge of open borders in Europe in a recent article: “Almost weekly in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Germany, a sensational assault committed by an illegal migrant … surfaces. Until recently, European politicians and the media sought to either ignore such news, or accuse those who clamored for tighter borders … of being ‘racists’ or ‘xenophobes.’” Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? As always, the argument is lost when ad hominem attacks start flying.
On the energy and climate change front, one need look no further for wisdom, practicality and soberness than Bjorn Lomborg, an environmental economics expert, president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center.
“While Europe knows it has to boost its anemic economic growth, it has consistently prioritized carbon cuts and ever more expensive energy, often through less reliable wind and solar power,” Lomborg wrote in a New York Post column. “This climate crusade is a masterclass in self-sabotage, chaining its economy to ruinous policies while preaching moral superiority.”
Lomborg continues, “Developing nations need affordable, dependable energy. China, India, and Africa won’t kneel at the altar of Europe’s green dogma. They are building coal and gas plants like there is no tomorrow. Poorer nations don’t wish to emulate Germany’s sky high electricity prices or Spain’s green blackouts.”
We recently saw President Trump drop a massive bomb that significantly enhanced future world peace by obliterating Iran’s nuclear facilities. Make no mistake — these truth bombs leveled at the United Nations General Assembly were every bit as warranted.
Michael Zais is a political blogger for thedrunkenrepublican.com.
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