He called for the formation of a “world salvation army, whose first task is to liberate Palestine”.
“That is why, from here in New York, I ask all soldiers in the United States Army not to point their rifles at humanity,” he said. “Disobey Trump’s order! Obey the order of humanity!”
Petro added: “As happened in the First World War, I want the young people, sons and daughters of workers and farmers, of both Israel and the United States, to point their rifles not toward humanity, but toward the tyrants and toward the fascists.”
I LIKE THIS GUY
🤝
I’m weary. I love what he’s saying, but never believe the words of leaders verbatim… The wealthy lie. Never trust them.
He made a speech at the UN calling for intervention to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and criticizing the US’s violence in the Caribbean, and then the US revoked his visa.
He also directly called for US soldiers to disobey orders, so there may be more to this story.
Disobey orders? Or disobey illegal orders?
asking people to disobey illegal orders is literally telling people to follow the law.
how is that a bad thing?
Is “just following orders” back on the menu?
Anyway, I saw no call for US troops to disobey orders, where is it?
https://eleanorsquad.substack.com/p/un-speech-by-gustavo-petro-urrego
He spoke at a demonstration. You linked his speech at the UN. Different things.
Thank you for explaining
The action was not taken following his UN speech. it was following a separate speech in which he said, “I ask all the soldiers of the United States’ army, …disobey the orders of Trump.”
Imagine Trump visiting Colombia and saying something like that (not that hard to imagine, really). Petro would be in every right to revoke his visa.
For additional context, it was not clear which orders he was referring to, but there are no US Army troops in Gaza.
Thank you for explaining
Colombia halts all cocaine exports in retaliation
If the Narcos organized a boycott to expedite US regime change I’d laugh my ass off as not a soul left studying history would be able to declare anything except the final victory of drugs in the war on drugs. Like we all know drugs won, but by god that would be an annihilation.
If anyone has the capital (both political and monetary) and the ability to execute, Narcos certainly do. Assuming they aren’t obsessed with greed, if they made some sort of public announcement saying that they are patriots and would not only boycott US markets but would engage with other producers to stop their own shipments, I would love to see the fall out. I suspect it wouldn’t be visible. After all, I suspect that most cocaine drug users in the US aren’t the most reliable voting contingent.
But it would be fun to see how Trump reacts to it.
Trump would spin it as a victory.
Despite the shivers
While the government drops around him?
I’m guessing Don Jr, Kimberly Guifoille, Janine Pirro, musk, Thiel, Bannon and Hegseth single handedly keep the Columbian cocaine economy afloat
The UN should’ve never been located in the US. It’s biased af, and I’m saying this as an American. Because imagine how this feels if the UN was in Shanghai or Moscow. This shit is so dumb. Should be in Geneva, Switzerland, an actual neutral country.
But they didn’t arrest Netanyahu?
Surprised they didn’t send ICE to detain him
He was already half way to Bogata when his Visa got revoked. They did this performatively
Not even Trump would be that stupid. That would be a complete detonation of any diplomatic agreement. The moment they’d do that, any US diplomat or representative in the world would become fair game to imprison.
Time to take the U.N. out of the U.S. and kick the U.S. out of the U.N.
Pull the UN out of the USA.
Can that man run for president here? Coz he seems to have our best interests in mind more so than our current TACO.
Stay classy America
that’s what nazis would do
UN: guys we can’t really meet in New York anymore. What do we do with this real estate now?
So UN leaves to Geneva.
Then the US says, “The UN has abandoned us. We are leaving the UN.”
The US leaves the UN, throwing away an incredible amount of soft power. We fade on the world stage.
Trump is a horrible pathetic moronic excuse for a leader.
I know a kid (I work with kids) who provokes the adult (me) until it gets a negative reaction, which it then spins and exaggerates and tells their parents and friends.
Simply remaining calm does not help. They will needle and prod until they get a reaction. And if I don’t my silence will be interpreted as a negative reaction.
So, kinda fascinating how this 8-year-old’s behavior tracks with US government’s behavior.
The real estate belongs to the United States government.Trump, of course, has already said he wants to build a hotel/casino there.Edit: oops, my mistake. The city of New York donated the land to the UN, on which they built the complex. It is considered international territory. Something I did not know.
Nope, belongs to the UN. Looked it up yesterday.
Are they going to deport him to an Ecuadorian prison?
Nope, Sudanese
