Russia, China and India not attending UN General Assembly. Facing a complex set of challenges that try humanity as never before, world leaders gather at the United Nations this week under the shadow of Europe’s first major war since World War II — a conflict that has unleashed a global food crisis and divided major powers in a way not seen since the Cold War. 

Russian forces have invaded Ukraine from land, air and sea with strikes causing widespread damage. Global leaders have condemned the move and imposed sanctions.

Ukraine Invasion

Inflation across the developed world is surging, with the rising cost of living expenses at the highest level since the 1980s.

Global Inflation Concerns

Russia has been hit by global sanctions following President Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine.

Russian Sanctions

U.N General Assembly faces a 'divided world'

24th. Herbert in Savannah, said to talk a bit more about the UN General Assembly and I can tell you who trashed says, this session comes at a time of great Peril for the world. He definitely seems less than optimistic about the future at the moment. Why so much pessimism from a because it's exactly what you said. It would come and get a very Grim moment when the world seems more polarize more divided than at any time since the code words. Not just Antonio, guterres former. I'll get to that in a second but the former UN General Secretary Banky Moon Road in Lemont today. Basically, multilateralism is under attack, he says, don't blame the UN and multilateral institutions blame leaders who turn to nationalism and populism and exploit them for their own narrow-minded, nationalistic, agendas. So, it's, it's a very difficult. Look at this. This is a tweet by the current US. Secretary General for battered by climate chaos, card by 8, and shamed by poverty, and hunger and also added and in a quality that is quite a plate of issues right here. He's trying to strike an optimistic. Note saying that Global cooperation. Still can still work, the world can still work together but yet the real uphill struggle. I want to show you to look at just the plate of issues that challenges. This is, you know, this this UN General Assembly, the official name of it, is transformative solutions to interlocking challenges, the idea being that everyone should be able to find solutions from for covid or the climate crisis of the energy crisis. It's all interlocked if everyone could just come together and think creatively, but look what they're up against here. Russia's war against Ukraine, which, and I. That's my wording. Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. I'm not trying to go into false equivalency here. So it's it's lunch with Spike in energy in food, prices food, insecurity across massive chunks of the globe, Asia, Middle East and Africa, who think that Ukraine is being overly exclusively focused on to their own detriment. They feel sort of ignored tanking economy. So you have a global economy and distress, not just here in Europe in the US but just about everywhere. Backsliding on climate pledges, you know, which will get you in a second China, Russia. Versus u.s. Europe is formation of new blocks East versus West. I talked about this cold worse Feeling. Again, it really is a sense, Joe Biden's called about Socrates versus democracy. However, you want to work, is a real sense of clashes of civilization. Clashes of ideology going into this general assembly, is it from the golden opportunity to do something before the next cut, 27 coming up in Channel Shack in Egypt. Of course it's a golden opportunity. You have 150 world leaders gathered or, you know, their representatives gathered it in in one place at one time but they're likely to miss that golden opportunity. Two months ahead of that big climate Summit in Egypt. Look look what we've already dealt with. We have devastating dramatic floods in China. In Europe, we had absolutely horrific flooding in Pakistan, 33 million people affected, talk about, wake up calls, if that doesn't wake you up what does Genie. These extreme weather events are Happening more frequently and with greater intensity than ever before. And what's happening in parallel with that the world is either reneging or not, keeping up not holding to The Climate pledges made in previous Summit and it's getting worse and worst net zero emissions. Meaning, no carbon emissions by the year 2050, which is the general goal that is really in danger. Right now, you have a block of countries, a lot of them from South Asia, Bangladesh Bangladesh, Bhutan Nepal Sri Lanka, right? They don't get their leader speech, is this week on France, 24? However, important they are hardest hit in many respects in this climate crisis and even India. A giant very hard hit by climate. It's going to they're going to try to focus attention in the big plate from the secretary-general and others leading. This this Gathering is please Europe. Especially, yes. We know that Ukraine's war is driving energy higher. Yes, we know that people are being Didn't they need energy but doesn't do not, do not just ramp up your fossil fuel use to, not go back to Journey energy, just because of this war stick to the clean climate agenda. Yes, it's going to be painful. Yes it's going to hurt, but in the medium to longer-term, it is going to pay Rich rewards. There's lots of problems. Obviously, lots of talk about at the UN General Assembly, but three of the Prime Minister is not going. Sitting this one out to of the, the, the absentees are not surprising. They haven't gone in past years either, gladimir Putin. And that is, you can imagine why he has nothing but disdain for multilateral institutions. As they see themselves such as the United United Nations, he has his own sort of worldview and world to jenzi, he sees the UN is a block against him led by the supremacy of the United States. So he does want anything to do with it. He doesn't want to step up to a place where he's going to be Pariah. He's sending his foreign minister Sergei lavrov. Instead n, g Jing, ping. Obviously if talk about climate, Who has more influence. Perhaps a sign from the US on climate than China. Xi Jinping is going to be there. Now look in his defense, he's done very little travel since the Pantech but he did notably, he and Putin went last week to the meeting of the Shanghai. Cooperation organization in summer, does Beckett's table. So, when like-minded L autocratic leaders, authoritarian leaders, want to come together, they do so. And they find the summit to do. So in the UN is not their Summit, they want nothing to do with it. They're not going. And yes, it is a snob

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