During a rousing speech in which he went to bat against tyranny and for freedom while speaking at the United Nations, Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, announced in the speech that his country would no longer remain neutral and on the sidelines as regards fighting for freedom and against the sort of collectivist tyranny that he sees as plaguing the world.
During the speech, the 53-year-old libertarian economist and president, one who has so far focused on reversing Argentina’s inflation-driven decline by slashing the size of government, reducing regulation to make things like housing more affordable, and working to boost economic growth, said that he embarked on his political career “following the resounding failure of more than a century of collectivist policies that destroyed our country.”
Sounding off on the UN itself, Milei said that it went from being what was once “a shield to protect” mankind from itself as the weapons and wars of the Twentieth Century grew more destructive to “a leviathan with various tentacles purporting to decide not only what each nation state should do, but also how all the citizens in the world should live.”
Then, ripping apart the UN’s 2030 Agenda, Milei described it as an attack on state sovereignty that is full of fake solutions to modern problems. He said, “It purports to resolve the problems of modernity with solutions that afflict the sovereignty of nation states and violate the right to life, right to freedom, and property of persons.”
He continued, “It’s an agenda that purports to resolve poverty, inequality, discrimination with legislation that simply furthers these issues, because the history of the world has shown that the only way of guaranteeing prosperity is by limiting the power of the monarch, by guaranteeing equality before the law, defending the right to life, to freedom, and to the property ownership of individuals.”
He then said, “In this same house, we that purport to defend human rights, we have also included bloody dictatorships in the Human Rights Council, including Cuba and Venezuela, without reproach. In this same house, which purports to defend the rights of women, we’ve allowed on CEDAW, the CEDAW Committee, countries that punish their women just for showing their skin. In this same house that had voted against the State of Israel, which is the only country in the Middle East to defend a liberal democracy, we have simultaneously shown a total inability to respond to the scourge of terrorism.”
Building on that, he went after the UN for its economic programs and agenda, saying, “On the economic level, we have promoted collectivist policies that undermine economic growth, violate property rights and disrupt a natural economic process in preventing the most left behind countries to freely enjoy their own resources. [The U.N. has] imposed regulations and prohibitions specifically because of countries that wish to develop themselves. We have further established toxic relationship between global governance and international credit bodies demanding that those countries that are most left behind commit resources that they don’t have to programs that they don’t need, making them perpetual debtors.”
He also attacked its stance on growth, saying, “We have also seen ridiculous policies with Malthusian stances, such as zero emissions policies that harm all poor countries, policies related to sexual and reproductive rights when birth rates in Western countries are plummeting, announcing a somber future for all of us,” he continued. “We have also seen that the veto of the permanent members of the Security Council has begun to be used in the defense of the specific interests of a certain few. That’s where we are today, with a powerless organization, powerless to provide solutions to the true global conflicts.”
And, giving a warning, he said, “I’d like to issue a warning here. We are coming to the end of a cycle, collectivism and the moral posturing and the woke agenda is coming up against reality. There are no further credible solutions to the real problems of the world. If the 2030 agenda fails, as recognized by its own promoters, the response should be to wonder whether or not this was an ill-conceived program from the outset, and we should accept this reality and change what we’re doing.”
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