Was it back during Bush 1’s term that they tried something similar with the Law of The Sea Treaty?
Reagan initially said “NO!” but, yes, Bush allowed some form of it to pass. Not sure of the details. Outside of a One World Government there’s no way to enforce it or any other alphabet org dictum. Charitably, perhaps Bush was thinking that, e.g. “Who cares? We’ll do whatever we want regardless!”?
AS I understand it, the problem with the Pacific Trade Treaty was that only a small portion of the treaty was about trade. The people in government who were permitted to read the treaty were sworn to secrecy. (We have to pass the treaty to know what’s in it, kind of thing.) As I understand it, if a guy used in a murder in a PTT country was traced to a gun shop in, say, Texas, then we’d have to ensure that never happened again...therefore, gun control. If we didn’t do it, then our PTT partners could put tariffs on our products. And of course, such a thing would have occurred within days of the treaty being ratified. Our politicians would say, “Hey, it’s not us doing gun control. WE have to do it, or we can’t trade with any of these countries. See, it’s them!”
However, when Trump came along, he said, “I’m renegotiating these treaties. Take them or leave them, I don’t care.” But under Obama or Biden we’d certainly have gun control. It would take years to get to the Supremes and thousands of businesses would be ruined by then.
If we don’t abide by the treaty, WHO and it’s other members can sanction us as we have done to Russia and others. But we must not let them take over our sovereignty.
Indeed.