But also, what's the UN for? Is it functional? What's its future look like? Who's gonna lead it after Guterres, of whom you're not a massive fan? And we're also going to talk about, uh, whether you like it or not, the Charles Spencer attack upon your friend, the King.
It sort of feels incredibly both consequential and inconsequential, and I'll tell you what I mean by that.
I watched Guterres talking about his priorities for the summit, for the UNGA, and he said...
He set out three: runaway artificial intelligence, climate change, and growing inequalities, okay? And he said these were existential threats, plug for Rory's new miniseries.
And he then said, "And we need to work hard towards peace in the Middle East and ending the war in Ukraine." And as he said those five things, I thought, "Yeah, he's probably right," but the UN's voice in that is...
It's like, what is it? Where is it? Where is the UN place in all this? And of course, we can all criticize, as you and I do, Donald Trump's endless failures on different specific policy areas, but he set the strategic goal to weaken the United Nations, and he's done it, and it's with consequences.
So when the US stopped its funding, there was complete crisis in all these agencies.
But also, what's the UN for? Is it functional? What's its future look like? Who's gonna lead it after Guterres, of whom you're not a massive fan? And we're also going to talk about, uh, whether you like it or not, the Charles Spencer attack upon your friend, the King.
It sort of feels incredibly both consequential and inconsequential, and I'll tell you what I mean by that.
I watched Guterres talking about his priorities for the summit, for the UNGA, and he said...
He set out three: runaway artificial intelligence, climate change, and growing inequalities, okay? And he said these were existential threats, plug for Rory's new miniseries.
And he then said, "And we need to work hard towards peace in the Middle East and ending the war in Ukraine." And as he said those five things, I thought, "Yeah, he's probably right," but the UN's voice in that is...
It's like, what is it? Where is it? Where is the UN place in all this? And of course, we can all criticize, as you and I do, Donald Trump's endless failures on different specific policy areas, but he set the strategic goal to weaken the United Nations, and he's done it, and it's with consequences.
So when the US stopped its funding, there was complete crisis in all these agencies.
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