Javier Milei, Argentina’s libertarian president, delivered a scathing speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, criticizing the organization as “useless” and composed of “fatally arrogant parasites.” He argued that the UN failed to uphold its founding principles during the COVID-19 pandemic by imposing policies he deemed harmful to national sovereignty. Milei further accused the UN of supporting dictatorships and failing to address issues like terrorism and the Israel-Palestine conflict adequately, highlighting the unresolved status of the Falkland Islands as an example of the organization’s ineffectiveness.
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An Iranian commercial vessel was struck near Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday morning, killing one person and injuring four others. Iranian state media blamed what they called a "terrorist enemy" without specifying the origin or nature of the attack. The incident occurred as Iran plans to brief neighboring countries about managing shipping in the strategic strait.
Separately, Houthi rebels, backed by Iran, expanded their control over Yemen's Red Sea coast, moving closer to the critical Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which is an important alternative route for Saudi oil exports if the Strait of Hormuz becomes unusable. Houthis entered Mokha port recently and seized Perim Island earlier in the week.
The United States denied Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claims that a Panama-flagged tanker, El Gaia, struck naval mines in the strait and exploded, instead asserting that it was attacked by Iranian missiles last month and again by drones over the weekend. Oman's Maritime Security Centre reported on Tuesday that two sailors were missing after an attack on El Gaia, with 23 others rescued.
These incidents highlight ongoing tensions between Iran and Western powers over control of critical shipping routes in the region, threatening global oil supply stability and driving up energy prices globally.
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Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei struck again, this time in a fiery speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, in which he called the body "useless" and made up of "fatally arrogant parasites."
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Milei began by commending the U.N.’s founding mission of resolving conflict peacefully and promoting universal freedom and dignity as "noble words."
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However, he went on to say that "today, regrettably, it is time to acknowledge that in practice that sacred covenant has been broken.
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"That’s to say, it has become a useless organization whose only purpose is to sustain a caste of fatally arrogant parasites masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats," he charged.
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To make his case, he pointed to the U.N.’s role in restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, which he called a type of "genocide," as well as the "gender agenda, environmental extremism and unchecked immigration.
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Milei said that "during the pandemic, bodies under the auspices of this house put themselves before scientific evidence and the sovereignty of nations and promoted forced lockdown policies throughout the world."
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"Where some allege a public health policy error, we see a global experiment in social control disguised as science, and when a state wearing public health blinkers deprives its population of the right to work, to receive an education and to bid farewell to their dead, this results in millions of avoidable deaths; there is a word for it, genocide."
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He charged that "every time [the U.N.] failed, rather than reviewing the model or apologizing, they doubled down."
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"Those who were supposed to guarantee collective security and human rights failed in their task.
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They allowed chaos, violence and international terrorism to flourish," he said, adding, "The alleged defenders of human rights have sheltered bloodthirsty dictatorships and regimes that stone women in the streets; they have systematically voted against Israel while remaining silent in the face of Islamic terrorism and the genocide of Christians in Africa."
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Milei is widely considered a radical reformer, budget slasher and also an ally of President Donald Trump.
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Similar to Trump’s previous criticisms of the U.N. before the assembly, Milei did not hold back in his Wednesday address.
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Turning to his own country’s grievances, Milei continued by saying, "And if that were not enough, an organization established to defend the territorial sovereignty of its members decided to look the other way with regard to the situation of the Malvinas [Falkland] Islands, South Georgia Islands, South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas."
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He said that these islands "are a test of the gulf that exists between the words of international institutions and the reality upon which they purport to act."
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"There's no shortage of words or resolutions; what is lacking is consequences," he asserted.
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"Because an institution that cannot ensure that its words carry weight in the real world loses the most important thing of all, its authority.
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Milei said that alongside what he described as the Falkland Islands "failure," the U.N. has "built a bureaucratic leviathan devoted to deciding how the peoples of the world and their citizens should live."
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"This amounts to a curious mixture of anarchy and tyranny, impotence in the face of those who break the most basic rules, such as bloodthirsty dictatorships and terrorist organizations coupled with Orwellian control and impositions on liberal democracies that abide by the rules."
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Referencing free-market economist and philosopher Ludwig von Mises, Milei said, "I would remind them of what Mises said, ‘Good people do not think about controlling the lives of their fellow human beings.’"
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