President Donald Trump is planning to threaten defunding of the United Nations, including at least 40% decrease in funds provided to the organization, centering on complaints about the Palestinian Authority having membership in certain UN bodies.
There are two competing draft proposals under consideration for doing this, which demand that the US fully defund all UN organizations which give the Palestinians full membership. This would be a totally meaningless measure, however, as the US had already done so years ago.
There are also mentions of possible cuts to anything abortion related, and demands that the UN cut ties with any organization “which could be seen as” helping circumvent sanctions against either Iran or North Korea. A lot of the wording in the reports is unclear on exactly what that would entail.
One of the two draft orders calls for a “moratorium on new multilateral treaties,” and mandates a full US review of every single treaty they are party to with more than one nation, seeking recommendations on withdrawing from them. There were exclusions on the review for “national security” treaties and those related to extradition, but it is unclear exactly how that would be interpreted.
Both versions propose substantial cuts to US funding for the UN, as the US provides a large portion of the international body’s annual funding, though the multilateral treaties proposal looks at this as a jumping off point for a wholesale shift in US diplomatic agreements going much, much farther.
Nobody gives a French f**k what Trump says. He has long ago lost whatever goodwill/relevance Obama/US had garnered. US been threatening the UN with funding cut for decades and the 1 US veto has allowed the Palestinian problem to morph into an open sore and the coalition of dummies are poised to lose another ME war in Syria
Don’t hold anything back Lydia, spit it out and maybe some of Trump’s ignorant lemmings will start to get it.
Man oh man, it better happen soon while this site has at least a shred of credibility left!
Whatever the reason, cutting funds to the UN is long overdue. Zero would be about right. Same for foreign aid. The entire idiotic organization should be moved elsewhere, preferably some Third World utopia.
the u.s. cut funding to u.n. to 20% some yrs ago. It dared not cut more than that bec it’d greatly reduce its influence there. Funny, talks about reducing funding or withdrawing from u.n. in u.s. always get louder whenever Israel suffered some setback at u.n. Talk about America first！
Right on the money Roger! It’s amazing how long it’s taking for Americans to come to this kind of understanding. You’ve just broken through that wall of vainglorious thinking!
And doing it now serves so well to illustrate the naivety of that evil lying bast-ard they’ve elected as their new pres!
Detroit or Flint?
Good one Jim! You’re about as dumb as they get. Roger Chan above has it figured out for you.
For a self-proclaimed ‘American Firster’, he’s sure catering to Israel a lot
Makes you wonder who really hacked the political system.
America means Israel. America has no identity of its own.That identity is subsumed in that of Israel.Slaves have no identity or individuality other than their master’s slaves
it would be a big mistake to withdraw from U.N. RUSSIA and China would love that. It’d allow them to use u.n. to do what they want to do, just like the u.s. did when it had full control of U.N.
Ahhhaaaa! You’re getting it now Roger. And you can say the same thing about the US trying to put some heat on Nato countries to force them to pay some bills.
It’s been a long and slow process convincing Americans of these facts but you’re definitely a crack in the armour!
It would be a good thing for the world and the future of the UN if the UN got out from under US domination.
geeeezuz f—ing krist, it just keeps getting worse and worse with this a-shole of a president. And still Raimondo won’t go and stand in the corner and have his cry session. Then wipe his tears away and come out and tell us how wrong he was.
The UN for the most part doesn’t amount to anything except for the unhcr. But at the same time these uncertain times are really scary.
The UN supports many important international agencies.
The agency that controls International air travel safety (ICAO) for the last 60 years for example or the World Food Program.
Simple minds like to play games with these de-unding antics but they just don’t understand the basics.