In his maiden address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Argentine President Javier Milley slammed the “moral posturing of globalism and the woke agenda” and warned that the UN's flagship Agenda 2030 was a threat to global freedoms.
Millay introduced himself as “a libertarian economist appointed to the presidency of the Argentine Republic” due to “the precipitous failure of more than a century of collectivist policies,” marking a marked departure from many General Assembly speeches that have emphasized messages from UN leaders on climate change, wealth redistribution, and containing “misinformation.” Tuesday's event marked Millay's first time addressing the forum, as he takes office as president in December 2023.
Before presenting a series of damning facts about the current state of the UN, Milley praised the UN for its success in preventing World War III, which was its original purpose in existence.
“In less than 40 years, we have seen two world wars, which together claimed more than 120 million lives, but have since given way to 70 consecutive years of relative peace and global stability, creating an order in which the entire world can commercially integrate, compete and prosper,” he said.
Milley said this “outstanding success in the nation's history” resulted in a prophecy from the Book of Isaiah, which the president, an avid student of Judaism, read out at the forum.
And he shall judge the nations, and shall admonish many peoples: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
But the UN “has begun to change,” he continued, becoming “a giant, multi-tentacled organization trying to determine not just what countries and their peoples should do, but how all citizens of the world should live.” The UN is now, he warned, “a supranational model of government of international bureaucrats trying to impose a certain way of life on citizens of the world.”
Milley then launched into a scathing attack on the UN's recent record, condemning the Wuhan coronavirus lockdown and its support for totalitarian regimes.
In this way, we have seen how organizations born to defend human rights have become one of the main supporters of the systematic violation of freedoms, such as the quarantine measures taken around the world during 2020 that should be considered crimes against humanity.
In this Parliament that claims to protect human rights, bloody dictatorships like Cuba and Venezuela have been allowed to sit on the Human Rights Council without the slightest bit of criticism. In this Parliament that claims to protect women's rights, the CEDAW Committee admits countries that punish women for revealing skin. In this Parliament, they have systematically voted against the State of Israel, the only country in the Middle East that safeguards liberal democracy, yet at the same time demonstrating its utter inability to respond to the scourge of terrorism.
“Crimes against humanity” is a catch-all term in international law for acts prosecutable worldwide by the International Criminal Court (ICC). While Milley did not name anyone who should be prosecuted for this crime, the context of her accusation of the UN for its role in supporting the repressive quarantine refers to the Director-General of the UN's World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. He was re-elected unopposed to head the WHO despite its abject failure to contain the COVID-19 virus and to hold China accountable for its silence and destruction of relevant biological evidence when the virus began to spread in Wuhan in December 2019. Tedros's current main project is the development of a “pandemic treaty,” which would give the WHO greater powers to act above sovereign states in the face of public health emergencies.
In his speech, Milley also criticised the World Economic Forum (WEF), where he visited to deliver a similar condemnation of globalism.
“Also not helping is the guidance of the World Economic Forum, which is pushing policies like Mission Zero, which are Malthusian gimmicks that especially harm poor countries,” Milley said at the U.N. “They're pushing policies tied to sexual and reproductive rights at a time when birth rates in the West are plummeting, signaling a bleak future for all.”
Millay predicted that the world was “reaching the end of a cycle.”
“Globalism and the moral stance of the woke agenda have collided with reality and no longer have credible solutions to offer to real-world problems. In fact, they never had any solutions to begin with,” he asserted. “If Agenda 2030 has failed, then we must ask ourselves whether it was, by its promoters' own admission, a poorly conceived plan from the start, accept that reality, and change course.”
The Argentine President concluded by summarizing the beliefs of the anti-collectivist, liberal movement in Argentina.
“We believe in protecting the lives of all people. We believe in protecting the property rights of all people,” he listed. “We believe in freedom of expression for all people. We believe in religious freedom for all people. We believe in freedom of commerce for all people. And we believe in limiting all government.”
