Many UN delegates must have gagged at British Prime Minister Liz Truss’s starting premise in her late-day speech to the United Nations General Assembly that “her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II … symbolized the post-war values on which this organization —that is, the United Nations!— was founded.” Certainly, FDR would have!
She promised that geopolitics, like the UK, is entering a new era, for which the UK has a “proposed blueprint … [of] new partnerships and new instruments we need to collectively adopt,” to win the conflict between democracies and autocracies. Russia was named, and her speech was sprinkled with the usual key-and-code attacks on the Belt and Road Initiative and China. She pressed for systematic action to be taken against the “authoritarian regimes” on the economic front, in addition to “the unprecedented sanctions, diplomatic action, and rapid military support” already deployed through NATO and the other collective security arrangements which are being cobbled together.
In other words: “The G7 and our like-minded partners should act as an economic NATO, collectively defending our prosperity. If the economy of a partner is being targeted by an aggressive regime we should act to support them. All for one and one for all,” she cried.
