The United Nations General Assembly is meant to showcase international consensus. This week it became a stage for its fiercest critic as Donald Trump returned to New York not to flatter the global order, but to flay it. He accused the UN of bankrolling migration, derided climate policy as hoax, and warned that if Russia refused to end its war, America would impose ‘powerful tariffs’ and force Europe to do the same.

The rest of Donald Trump’s UN speech made the pattern impossible to miss

Later the same day, after meeting Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump struck a different but complementary note: Ukraine, he declared, could recover all of its lost territory, dismissing Russia as a ‘paper tiger’. Headlines quickly hailed a volte-face – only months ago, Trump had implied Kyiv mi

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