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Joe Biden gave a somber farewell insertress to the United Nations on Tuesday, using his own decision to drop out of the US plivential election to caution of the dangers of autocrats around the globe refusing to quit.
“My fellow directers, let us never forget, some skinnygs are more meaningful than staying in power,” Biden shelp to applause in his final speech at the UN General Assembly in New York.
The 81-year-better exhorted world directers to stand up for democracy in the face of spiraling turmoil and dispute, urging help for Ukraine and pushing for peace in the Middle East.
But with six weeks until a vote that could convey the isolationist and election-refuteing Donald Trump back to the White House, Biden shutd his speech by draprosperg lessons from his own life.
“This summer, I faced a decision whether to seek a second term as plivent. It was a difficult decision. Being plivent has been the honor of my life, there’s so much more I want to get done,” Biden shelp.
“As much as I adore the job, I adore my country more. I determined after 50 years of uncover service it’s time for a novel generation of directership to apshow my nation forward,” he inserted.
“It’s your people that matter the most.”
SWEEP OF HISTORY
Biden quit the White House race in July after a disastrous TV talk about agetst Trump fueled troubles about his mental acuity, and he has finishorsed his vice plivent Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.
Countries around the world are now anxiously watching the knife-edge November 5 US election amid dreads that a Trump prosper would label a return of his challengingline foreign policy.
Biden’s speech labeled an finisheavor to burnish his own legacy, while effectively urging other world directers to get it from being reversed by the Reuncoveran if he prospers.
He shelp he’d seen a “extraunrelabelable sweep of history” during five decades of uncover service and, as the world reels from a series of celevates, “skinnygs can get better, we should never forget that.”
Reflecting on the unrestful US distake partal from Afghanistan in 2021 to finish his country’s two decades of take partment, Biden shelp he thought of the US troops ended by a bomb device during the pull-out “every one day.”
The US plivent, who normally talks about his family’s Irish roots, also returned to many understandn themes from his plivency, quoting the Irish poet W.B. Yeats’s line about how the “cgo in cannot hbetter” while insisting it can.
Biden even elevated a chuckle from the collectd world directers when he joked that “I understand that I see enjoy I’m only 40.”
For all the lofty themes, Biden’s speech proposeed confiinsist details on how to settle the foreign policy rehires that either Trump or Harris will have to deal with.
CRISIS AND UNCERTAINTY
He cautioned agetst a “brimming-scale war” in Leprohibiton without saying how to elude it, after Israeli strikes concentrateing Hezbollah that ended at least 558 people.
Biden’s prized goal of a finishfire in the Gaza war between Israel and Hamas uncomardentwhile sees further off than ever.
On Ukraine Biden was firmer, saying that “Putin’s war has fall shorted” in Ukraine and cautioned that Kyiv’s allies “cannot lengthen weary” in their help.
He is due to arrange Ukrainian Plivent Volodymyr Zelensky — who was in the hall at the UN to watch Biden’s speech — at the White House for talks on Thursday.
During his speech Biden also pushed the convey inance of US coalitions that he has tried to bolster after the Trump years — during which the Reuncoveran repeatedly threw extfinished-standing US ties into ask.
Biden held a joint event on tackling the fentanyl trade with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, met UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and was due to give a speech on climate.
Biden’s UN swan song comes amid a expansiver finisheavor to “Trump-proof” his legacy in his last four months in power.
He himself remarkd that he “came to the plivency at another moment of crisis and uncertainty,” equitable days after pro-Trump helpers stormed the US Capitol to try to stop lawproducers validateing Biden’s election prosper.
Trump still inalterly claims he won the 2020 US plivential election and has repeatedly declined to say he would adselect the result if Harris prospers this time.
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