At the U.N., Trump Lays Out a Winner-Takes-All Vision of U.S. Power

kept by eddie sep 23

President Trump's U.N. General Assembly speech explicitly rejected the multilateral foundation of the United Nations, presenting a winner-takes-all vision of U.S. power.

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