Scott Lucas
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first heard Sep 2026
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Yeah, I think Guterres was in his way without specifically name-calling, reflecting the fact that you've got the Russian invasion of Ukraine in its fifth year, which is largely down to Vladimir Putin.
You have the conflict with the war on Iran and then the wars across the Middle East, which are largely down to Donald Trump and to Benjamin Netanyahu.
At this point and then of course, you've got these broader questions regarding climate change regarding for example getting back to global health after the pandemic and
and you have certain leaders who are holding out, who, in fact, deny climate change, who, in fact, have pulled out of the World Health Organization.
So beyond these specific individuals that we could name, and there are more beyond a Trump or a Putin, you're actually looking at individual leaders who don't believe in the multilateral approach anymore, that collective approach anymore.
And what Gutierrez was really, I think, saying is –
can we find a way to get back to why the UN was created in 1945, which is to avoid these conflicts, but also to deal with global problems by working together rather than thinking it's one country against another.
Well, I think all of that is in play, but I think what's interesting in that dynamic and in other events this week is that you see China playing one
longer game in terms of developing its own alternative economic system, its vision of that system for the world, and politically, to be honest with you, taking advantage of some of these conflicts that are eroding American power.
I think even though Donald Trump will play like he was – she's equal this week, the United States is in a serious problem with what is a failing war in Iran.
It also has been a power which is now rejecting alliances, and it's rejecting working, whether you talk about Canada, whether you talk about the European Union.
Its relations with even some of its partners in the Middle East are under strain.
And that has undermined the United States at the time when China was saying, hey, you can come work with us.
You can come deal with us.
And I think there was a symbol of this at the United Nations on another front, if I may, very quickly.
Denmark and Greenland signed this deal with the United States, a security deal.
And they presented it to Donald Trump as like, you know, oh, this is a great deal.
You know, congratulations, you've got this.
All that deal did was restate a Danish treaty with the United States from 1951.
And it really showed that rather that the way to deal with Trump is to give him something shiny.
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