The UN Cracking and Crumbling?

Foreign affairs
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Republican lawmakers have initiated the effort to withdraw the United States from the United Nations, citing concerns that the organization does not align with American interests.

Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) has introduced the “Disengaging Entirely From the United Nations Debacle Act of 2025,” which aims to terminate U.S. membership and funding to the U.N. and its affiliated bodies. The press release states, “this legislation addresses grave issues of national sovereignty and fiscal accountability which have plagued US involvement in the UN".

“No more blank checks for the United Nations. Americans’ hard-earned dollars have been funneled into initiatives that fly in the face of our values, enabling tyrants, betraying allies, and spreading bigotry,” said Sen. Mike Lee.

“If we engage with the UN in the future, it will be on our terms, with the full backing of the Senate and an iron-clad escape clause.” [Djeeziz NO!]

Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) is co-sponsoring the bill in the Senate, while Representative Chip Roy (R-Texas) is planning to introduce a similar measure in the House.

The lawmakers argue that the U.N. has become a platform for criticizing the U.S. and its allies. In a statement, Lee argued that “The United Nations has devolved into a platform for tyrants and a venue to attack America and her allies. We should stop paying for it. As President Trump revolutionizes our foreign policy by putting America first, we should withdraw from this sham organization and prioritize real alliances that keep our country safe and prosperous.”

Roy called out the U.N. for enjoying Americans tax money while “undermining our interests, attacking our allies and bolstering our adversaries".

“What has the United Nations achieved?” Roy said. “Despite all of the money and the attention, this corrupt globalist organization has, for decades, failed to prevent wars, genocides, human rights violations and even pandemics.”

The U.S. is the largest financial contributor to the U.N., providing over $18 billion in 2022, which constitutes approximately one-third of the U.N.’s entire collective budget.

If the US withdraws from the UN, the UN will be done away with.
Good! Very, very good! Prepare to celebrate gloriously!
The UN must be destroyed!

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Great news!!! Finally!!! I can hardly believe it, it’s been so long in coming. I think there’s a good chance it will actually happen.
This will be like having a cancerous tumor removed. The country, which was on life support, is beginning to revive under Trump’s leadership.

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#3

Good! It is at best a Useless Nuisance.

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From the linked article:
President Donald Trump is withholding the transfer of several budgets to the United Nations so far and the international organization has been forced to take drastic measures. The UN headquarters in New York has already begun making significant cuts, which are affecting the organization’s ongoing activities.

Among the steps taken: cutting translation services; reducing live broadcasts of plenary debates; stopping holding meetings after 6:00 p.m.; shortening the length of reports by 10%; limiting the number of meetings with translation and interpretation services; delays in producing official minutes; lowering the temperature in the offices to save on heating costs; and even closing one of the main entrances to the UN headquarters on 42nd Street in Manhattan.

According to the letter, signed by the UN Secretary-General’s Chief of Staff, Earle Courtenay Rattray, these steps are necessary to ensure that the organization can continue to operate, at least until the end of the year. “Without immediate spending restrictions, we will not be able to meet our financial obligations from September to December,” the document states. It was also emphasized that due to the severity of the situation, the drastic measures taken last year will also continue, with new restrictions added to all key UN departments.

Maybe if the UN lowers the temperature enough, they’ll just leave. That ought to fix global warming and the UN both.

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Ha! Yes, if they all just leave permanently, that will fix the UN!
And if they and the rest of the left were completely defunded, the climate “emergency” - and every other lunatic leftist cause - would also disappear!

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UN Watch statement to United Nations Human Rights Council, 7 March 2025, delivered by Ayelet Samerano:

“Mr. Rapporteur, in your report, you claim the reputation of UNRWA is ‘under attack’.

I speak today as a mother. My son, Yonatan, 21 years old, was shot on October 7th.

Then an UNRWA social worker kidnapped him.

Right now, Yonatan is still held by terrorists in Gaza.

So I know what an attack is. An attack is when terrorists, including UNRWA employees like Mohammad Abu Ittiwi, enter a music festival, and murder innocent, young people.

An attack is when a UN “SOCIAL WORKER”, paid by this organization, kidnaps my son into Gaza. A person who took upon himself to do good — yet did evil.

No, UNRWA is not under attack. UNRWA is the attacker.

An UNRWA teacher held 84-year-old Ditza Heiman captive.

Terrorists held Emily Damari captive — in an UNRWA building.

UNRWA’s entire infrastructure has helped Hamas murder our children.

You talk about human rights. What about Yonatan’s rights?

What about the hostages still suffering in Gaza, right now?

Mr. Rapporteur, your report says UNRWA was ‘affected severely by deaths of its staff’. Does this include the UNRWA worker who kidnapped my Yonatan?

Mr. Rapporteur, I ask you, I ask the United Nations: Where is my son?”

THE UN MUST BE DESTROYED!

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#7

Trump must defund and withdraw the US from the UN.

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#8

Yes. And that will destroy the appalling institution.

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