Comment by Kostas Argyros

Writer Georg Dogs has aptly put it: “We are experiencing an abnormality, which has been accepted as regularity.” His phrase was spoken before his speech Donald Trump At the General Assembly of UNwhich you say was cut and sewn to confirm (the author). For an hour, the “planetary” sparked frivolous peri -trips and toxic attacks on all those who disagree with him. He challenged scientific findings on climate change, describing the immigrants as “a source of all suffering” in a country built by immigrants (often not only economic but real adventurers) attacked the UN, put them in with the logic itself.

For those who still believe that his presidency is not a threat to the planet, who must have worried us, he himself offered the most derogatory answer himself. It is no coincidence that the attack on logic was combined with that of the United Nations. What other reasonable tool does humanity have after the horrific experience of the two world wars to seek peace, democratization of the planet, lifting inequalities, cooperation, mutual respect between states?

Democratization in and out

All this is essentially questioned by Trump today. In less than a year he has proven that his vision of a “great America”, which he argued, is going through its “golden age” based on the imposition of the powerful, blackmailing bazaars against the weaker ones, on the restriction of basic political and social rights for a single portion of his own.

The “democratization” of the US, which is promoted by attacking political opponents, judges, media, minorities, can no longer leave any “ally” illusion that it is not a compass for its foreign policy. Can there be a global democratic, liberal, peaceful order of things with the US flowing towards a sui generis totalitarianism?

One will say that Trump will not stay there forever. But who guarantees that what he sows will not cause wounds that will take decades to heal? And who guarantees that in this context, one will not emerge as a successor as an equally or even more fanatical one, who will complete the dismantling of what is commonly called “West”.

The responsibilities of Europeans

There were, of course, many speakers this week who warned of the consequences of an anarchic world with a fully devalued UN. But for the United Nations, it is true, and even multiple, what is often said about the EU. Despite problems and malfunctions, despite the inability to cope quickly in cosmogenic changes that have taken place in waves over the past eight decades, it is the best of the planet.

You can’t accuse a home of “moisture”, when you open the doorways before each storm and disappear. Member States with their choices are responsible for the frequent inability of the UN to face “thunderstorms”. The first responsibility is in the US, which happens to host its basic headquarters in New York.

This, of course, does not relieve their responsibilities, the other leaders. Mostly the “civilized” and ambitious Europeans. Some, like Emmanuel Macron, have shown to realize it. Others, such as Chancellor Mertz, who preferred to … stay in Berlin due to internal obligations, just filled us with questions.