The United Nations Follies

Every year at the end of September we get reminded what a farce the United Nations has become. It’s when the General Assembly opens its doors to dictators and fools, con artists and an occasionally a leader who shows true nobility.

El Salvador’s president Nayib Buckle fell into that later category, telling the story of his country’s transformation from one of “the darkest places on the planet” into a nation that stands out as a model of optimism and safety.

Commenting on his government’s crackdown on drug cartels and criminals of all stripes, he said: “Some say that we have imprisoned thousands, but the reality is that we have freed millions.”

Now there is a profile in courage.

That’s not what we saw from Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who called on the world body to “force” Russia to the negotiating table and to punish Putin.

Zelenskyy was hoping to use his U.S. trip to get the Biden-Harris regime to approve Ukraine’s plan to use NATO long-range weapons to hit targets deep inside Russian territory. But the CIA and others warned that Putin was not bluffing this time when he said he would consider such strikes a direct NATO attack on Russia, and strike back at NATO, possibly with nuclear weapons.

One of the biggest advocates of enabling Ukraine to initiate World War III is president Macron of France. Little Cookie, as I call him, is playing Sorcerer’s apprentice in Ukraine. Some say they see the little horns protruding from his head.

Donald Trump showed remarkable personal sympathy for the Ukrainian people and for Zelenskyy when he welcomed him to a private meeting at Trump Tower on Friday. But he also made clear that he had good personal relations with Putin as well, and that it “takes two to tango” toward a peace deal.

I can guarantee you one thing: should we be so unfortunate to see Kamala Harris inaugurated as president in January, the Ukraine war will get deeper, darker, and far more dangerous than it is today.

Two other noteworthy participants in the UN follies this year: Iranian president Masood Pezeshkian, and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Pezeshkian was attempting a remake of attempts by several of his predecessors as the mullahs’ “selected” president to portray the Iranian regime as “moderate” and filled with aspirations to peace.

To help him in his charm offensive, he hired Mohammad Javad Zarif, the architect of the failed 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Not too long ago, Zarif resigned from Pezeshkian’s inner circle because he felt the new president was ignoring him. No longer.

I will have some astonishing revelations about Zarif and his role in a plot to kill Americans in my new book, The Iran House: Tales of Persecution, Revolution, War, and Intrigue, which will be released on October 15. So stay tuned!

Then came Bibi, on Friday. He told a tale of two futures for the Middle East, one called “The Curse,” and the other, “The Blessing.”

The Curse is the continuation of what we have today, with terror threats from Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza threatening to wrap Israel in perpetual war.

The Blessing is a future with expanded Abraham Accords to include a peace deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia that would open the region to massive opportunities and economic expansion, with an Israel-Saudi energy corridor and joint projects to develop water resources, AI, and more.

Within days of taking office in January 2020, Joe Biden turned his back on the Abraham Accords and went out of his way to alienate Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, pushing the Saudis into the arms of the Russians and the Chinese. Call it, the way not to act as a superpower.

Bibi also blasted the UN as a “contemptible swamp” of antisemitism, which it is, and warned the Iranian regime not to attack Israel because there is “no place in Iran we can’t reach.”

“Israel will not go gently into that good night,” he said. “We will fight against the dying of the light.”

Sound familiar? Probably not to most of you, but the Israeli prime minister was quoting Dylan Thomas, a Welshman who was one of the great poets of the 20th century. I don’t think the UN will ever recover.

I discuss this, Donald Trump’s plan for the UN, and the Iranian plots to kill Trump and Trump-era officials in this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend. As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday in the Jacksonville, Florida, area on 104.9 FM or 550 AM or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app. You can also listen to the podcast later here.

And in case you missed it, here is a link to my op-ed in Thursday’s Washington Times about Iran’s efforts to assassinate Trump.

Yours in freedom.

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