UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Leaders who are “playing” at unity and stuffing pressing problems into an overflowing bag of woe. A United Nations that resembles ”a retired superhero“ that has lost sight of what it used to be. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy certainly wasn’t the only world leader at this week’s U.N. General Assembly meeting to paint a dire picture of international relations. His first appearance, in 2019, was fraught with a U.S. political firestorm over a phone call between him and then-U.S. President Donald Trump. “The U.N. is like a retired superhero who’s long forgotten how great they once were.”But he went on to enumerate reasons to remember.

Source: thestar September 23, 2021 00:11 UTC