Argentine President Javier Milei used his turn before the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday to deliver a blistering indictment of the institution itself, calling the global body a “useless organization” that has functioned as a refuge for authoritarian regimes while failing at the very missions it claims to champion.
According to The Daily Wire, Milei opened his address with a framing device he returned to throughout: “To tell an uncomfortable truth is always preferable to a comforting lie.”
The libertarian economist, who campaigned with a chainsaw as a symbol of his pledge to slash the Argentine state, did not modulate his tone for the diplomatic setting. He described the U.N. as an entity “whose only purpose is to sustain a cast of fatally arrogant parasites masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats,” and argued that the bodies tasked with safeguarding collective security and human rights had instead “allowed chaos, violence and international terrorism to flourish.”
Accusations of Selective Outrage
Milei’s sharpest words were reserved for what he characterized as the U.N.’s selective application of its own principles. He charged that “the alleged defenders of human rights have sheltered bloodthirsty dictatorships and regimes that stone women in the streets,” and accused member states of “systematically” voting against Israel while staying quiet about Islamic terrorism and what he described as the genocide of Christians in Africa.
The address fits a pattern Milei has established since taking office, positioning Argentina as an unambiguous ally of the United States and Israel while distancing himself from the non-aligned posture that characterized much of his country’s recent foreign policy. He made that alignment explicit, telling the assembly that Argentina has “unequivocally aligned ourselves with the West, with the United States and with Israel, countries with which we share a deep affinity of values and strategic complementarity.”
He cited concrete policy steps backing that claim: his government’s condemnation of Iranian attacks on Israel, its designation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization, and its continued pursuit of justice for the two terrorist attacks on Argentine soil in 1992 and 1994 — the bombings of the Israeli embassy and the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, both of which Argentine prosecutors have long linked to Iran and Hezbollah.
“We have decided to cooperate with the world, but to do so standing tall,” Milei said, “in the understanding that only a nation that is politically relevant, economically influential and militarily respected can truly be a master of its own destiny.”
Lockdowns Branded ‘Genocide’
The Argentine president then turned his fire on the international health apparatus and the pandemic-era restrictions it helped coordinate, describing COVID-19 lockdowns as “a global experiment in social control disguised as science.”
He listed the costs of forced isolation — destroyed livelihoods, disrupted childhood education, and people dying alone without the comfort of family — and then applied the harshest word in his vocabulary to the policies themselves.
“When a state deprives its population of the right to work, to receive an education, and to bid farewell to their dead,” Milei declared, “there is a word for it: genocide.”
He further argued that governments exploited “psychological terror” during the pandemic, deliberately sowing fear that turned citizens against one another — a climate, he said, that persisted long after the public health emergency ended, serving chiefly to expand state power.
The claim that lockdowns amounted to genocide is a striking escalation even by the standards of pandemic-era criticism, and it places Milei at the far edge of a global debate that continues to divide policymakers years after the emergency phase ended. The speech was reported by The Daily Wire, which characterized the address as a “barnburner” and noted the president’s reputation as a “chainsaw-wielding reformer.”
A Warning on Artificial Intelligence
Milei pivoted from the pandemic to what he framed as the next arena where fear could be weaponized for control: artificial intelligence.
He warned the assembly against letting that same climate of anxiety justify heavy-handed regulation of AI, comparing contemporary calls for oversight to the doom-mongering that greeted every major technological leap from the steam engine to the internet — each of which, he noted, was predicted to destroy jobs on a mass scale.
His core objection to state control of AI was not technical but philosophical. “When we hear that the state should control artificial intelligence, we should remember something basic,” Milei said. “The state is not an abstract creature. It is made up of people, officials and bureaucrats. Granting it control over innovation means granting some people, in the best and most naive of cases, the power to limit what everyone else can create.”
It is an argument that echoes classical liberal and libertarian critiques of regulatory capture, applied to one of the fastest-moving frontiers in technology — and one where governments worldwide are actively drafting rules. Milei pledged that Argentina would “stand at the forefront of freedom” on tech innovation, framing the choice as one between “determination” and “fear,” “courage” and uncertainty.
Domestic and Diplomatic Context
Milei’s U.N. performance is unlikely to surprise observers of his young presidency. Since taking office, he has governed as an ideological insurgent, wielding executive authority to deregulate swaths of the Argentine economy and clashing publicly with fellow leaders whose politics he rejects. His speech Wednesday extended that posture onto the world’s most prominent multilateral stage.
It also carries domestic political weight. Milei’s alignment with Washington and Jerusalem, his broadsides against international bureaucracies, and his refusal to soften his rhetoric for diplomatic audiences are all central to the identity that won him the presidency — and that his supporters expect him to carry abroad unchanged.
Whether the address shifts any votes at the U.N. is doubtful; General Assembly speeches rarely do. But as a statement of where Argentina now stands — and of the broader revolt against the postwar multilateral order that Milei has joined — it was unambiguous. He closed with the rallying cry he has made his trademark: “May the forces of heaven be with us, and long live freedom, damn it!”
Source: www.dailywire.com — https://www.dailywire.com/news/argentinas-milei-scorches-u-n-as-useless-organization-that-sheltered-bloody-dictatorships