Muted Reactions to the Nuclear “Mein Kampf” of Donald Trump

22/09/2017

Right and Left React to Trump’s Speech at the U.N.

The political news cycle is fast, and keeping up can be overwhelming. Trying to find differing perspectives worth your time is even harder. That’s why we have scoured the internet for political writing from the right and left that you might not have seen.
Read more at https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/us/politics/trump-un-speech-right-and-left.html

Trump’s disaster of a speech before the United Nations

By David Rothkopf

President Donald Trump delivered a speech to his alt-right, anti-globalist base from the podium of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. He offered a vision of America’s role in the world starkly different from any of his predecessors who stood in the same spot before the leaders of the world. In the end, Trump offered up remarks that were antithetical to the ideas and ideals that led the United States to play a central role in the U.N.’s founding in the wake of World War II
Read more at http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-trump-united-nations-speech-0920-story.html

Trump’s UN address reduces hope of peace on Korean Peninsula

US President Donald Trump vowed to “totally destroy North Korea” at his UN address Tuesday. This is not what one expects from a US president. Pyongyang aims to deter Washington by claiming that it is developing nuclear and missile technology that could hit the US. Washington should not ratchet up the rhetoric against Pyongyang.
Read more at http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1067322.shtml

AP Interview: Lavrov hints US-Russia ‘tit-for-tat’ could end

By John Daniszewski

NEW YORK (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told The Associated Press in an interview that he heard positive news in President Donald Trump’s United Nations address: “that the U.S. would not impose its way of life on others.”
“I think it’s a very welcome statement, which we haven’t heard from an American leader for a very long time,” said Lavrov, who sat down with the AP and Russia’s Tass news agency Tuesday, directly after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Read more at https://www.apnews.com/8968dc489ef64986a76a3dec7fac0423/AP-Interview:-Lavrov-hints-US-Russia-%27Tit-for-tat’-could-end

Fears of nuclear war grow after Trump’s threat to annihilate North Korea

By Alex Lantier

US President Donald Trump’s fascistic tirade at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, in which he declared Washington “ready, willing and able” to “totally destroy North Korea,” shocked and horrified people around the world yesterday.
The North Korean regime’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) warned that it might now attack US targets if it detects that US forces are preparing to destroy it. The KCNA said Pyongyang would prepare a “resolute and pre-emptive strike if they show any slight sign of provocation. In case the US opts for confrontation and war at last… it will meet horrible nuclear strike and miserable and final ruin.”
Read more at http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/21/uneu-s21.html

Trump’s UN Speech Reveals US Subservience to Israel and Saudi Arabia – Is Venezuela the real target?

By Colin Liddell

Trump’s big UN speech was many things to many men, but there was no mistaking the key note: America’s foreign policy is not its own
Read more at https://altright.com/2017/09/20/trumps-un-speech-reveals-us-subservience-to-israel-and-saudi-arabia/

Trump’s First Speech Before the UN Was an Absurd, Bombastic Disaster

After the president tells the UN that the US can “totally destroy North Korea,” it is time for Congress to put the brakes on Trump.

By John Nichols

nyone who was expecting diplomacy or nuance from Donald Trump in his United Nations speech got a jolt Tuesday morning. Trump appeared before the UN General Assembly as a commander in chief rattling his nuclear sabers.
Trump actually repeated aloud his Twitter reference to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as “Rocket Man,” telling world leaders in the most important foreign-policy address so far in his presidency that “Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself—and for his regime.”
Read more at https://www.thenation.com/article/trumps-first-speech-before-the-un-was-an-absurd-bombastic-disaster/

Trump’s “Mein Kampf” tirade at the United Nations

The speech delivered Tuesday by Donald Trump to the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York was without precedent either for the UN or the American presidency.
Speaking before a world body ostensibly created to spare humanity the “scourge of war” and founded on the principles elaborated at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, the American president openly embraced a policy of genocide, declaring that he was “ready, willing and able” to “totally destroy” North Korea and its 25 million people.
Read more at http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/20/pers-s20.html

Trump’s speech to UN called ‘terrifying’ and ‘delusional’ by foreign policy experts

Donald Trump gave his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, pushing for “sovereignty” in what has been called both “terrifying” and “delusional” by experts.
The President, sticking to prepared remarks as he spoke in front of the signature green marble of the UN Headquarters in New York, spoke primarily on his “America First” doctrine, North Korea, and Iran.
Read more at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/trump-un-speech-north-korea-venezuela-response-terrifying-delusional-a7956306.html

China ‘will not accept North Korea as nuclear weapons state’, ambassador warns

China has warned that it will never accept North Korea as a nuclear weapons state, Beijing’s ambassador to the US warned, just hours after Kim Jong-un said his country was on course to achieve that “final goal”.
Speaking at a Chinese embassy event in Washington DC, Cui Tiankai also called on Donald Trump’s administration to stop sabre-rattling against the secretive communist state.
Read more at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/china-not-accept-north-korea-nuclear-weapons-state-ambassador-cui-tiankai-washington-us-a7949896.html

Iran’s top leader dismisses Trump’s ‘ugly, foolish’ remarks

TEHRAN — Iran’s supreme leader said Thursday that US President Donald Trump’s “cheap, ugly, foolish and unreal” remarks before the UN General Assembly earlier this week were a sign of desperation.
In his debut address to the UN on Tuesday, Trump called Iran a “corrupt dictatorship” and a “murderous regime,” and said the landmark nuclear agreement Tehran reached with the US and other world powers was “an embarrassment to the United States,” strongly hinting he might pull out of the deal.
Read more at https://www.timesofisrael.com/irans-top-leader-dismisses-trumps-ugly-foolish-remarks/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=8e6aa216d3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_09_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-8e6aa216d3-55374873