"F__ all that!"
Posted on 01/31/2026 6:52:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Deep in mid-winter blues and suffering through never-ending images of shrieking Karens, their soy-boys and the judges and elected officials obstructing the deportation of rapists, fraudsters, and run-of-the-mill 75 IQ illegals, I thought we could use a pick-me-up, a bit of cheerful news. Well, I've got it. The UN is facing bankruptcy. UN operations may cease by the end of February, and the last flabby, underworked UN bureaucrat could receive a final check, assuming it doesn't bounce, in July.
The United Nations said on Friday that it was facing imminent financial collapse and would run out of money by July if countries, namely the United States, did not pay their annual dues that amount to billions of dollars.
Senior U.N. officials said that if the cash ran out, the agency would be forced to shut down its landmark headquarters in New York by August. The U.N. Security Council, a 15-member body responsible for maintaining international peace and stability, convenes its meetings at U.N. headquarters.
It would also have to cancel the annual General Assembly gathering of world leaders held in September and shut the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which responds to global emergencies like conflicts and natural disasters, it said.
How did we get to this state of near nirvana? Part of the story seems to be utter nonsense.
The United States is responsible for about 95 percent of the money owed to the United Nations, about $2.2 billion, according to a senior U.N. official who briefed reporters on the agency’s budget crisis. That amount is a combination of the U.S. annual dues for 2025, which has not been paid, and for 2026, the U.N. official said.
The U.S. paid $1.3 billion to the UN in FY 2025; our dues were $820 million for regular budgeted activities, and the remainder went to all manner of silly and counterproductive silliness. We have not paid the 2026 assessment, but the entire amount has been appropriated. The real problem seems to be one of the UN shooting itself in the foot and then complaining of the pain.
The United Nations’ financial woes are largely rooted in two problems: a liquidity crisis driven by member states who either are not paying their dues or are paying late, and a financial rule, dating to 1945, that says if the organization fails to fully spend the budget, even if it’s because of lack of payment from member states, it must return the money to the states.
Think about that for a moment. The UN makes a budget; a particular program is not executed, so the entire program's budget must be rebated, even though the money was never collected.
Guterres said a rule that the UN must return unspent money on particular programmes to members if it could not implement a budget created a "double blow" in which it was "expected to give back cash that does not exist".
I'm open to correction on this issue, but I've read at least eight sources, and they all "seem" to say the same thing. The implication is that nations could be rebated even without paying dues.
I think the real bone of contention, and the real reason that virtually all articles harp on the U.S. not paying up when we have only failed to pay for the current fiscal year because those funds have yet to be appropriated by Congress, it because President Trump has decided to cease paying to the worst UN programs and actively killed a UN carbon tax scheme that would have given UN bureaucrats a giant slush fund.
Our exit from the World Health Organization, which served as a Chinese Fifth Column aimed at Western economies and societies during the COVID "pandemic" (see Thanks for the Memories — Trump Officially Kicks World Health Organization to the Curb – RedState), and from the climate change religion (see Report: Trump Admin to Mostly Pass on UN Climate Summit – RedState) weakened the ability of a faceless international bureaucracy with communist economic philosophy and fascistic methods to further encroach on our sovereignty.
Personally, I'd prefer that Congress just pull the plug on the whole mess. I see no reason why we should contribute about a quarter of all funds used by the UN when it is relentlessly hostile to the West and to freedom.
BACKGROUND:
Is It Time for America to Leave the United Nations? – RedState
Who Really Needs the United Nations Anyway? – RedState
I think smaller ad hoc groups of nations with the same motives and intentions, working in concert, offer a greater chance for success than any UN program. I think President Trump's "Board of Peace," with an exclusive, inviation-only membership (see THE ESSEX FILES: Trump’s Board of Peace Is a Bet on American Leadership – RedState) working under one leader has a greater chance for success than a mob of Third World kleptocracies grifting off UN money while reviling the West—that would be the people donating money—as "colonialists" and hurling invective at Israel for everything from boils on the ass to crop failure.
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I hope it goes bankrupt. All those do-nothings can go home and do nothing there.
Wasted waaaaaay too much money on those fake climate change/crisis reports ,LOL
Just that easy, no American money for people that hate us.
Yay!! Though I must point out that the UN has been bankrupt in every way for a very long time.
Let's see if he has the last laugh.
Kinda like he had with Obama.
Screw the U.N. It hasn’t been useful in years, and is not what it used to be. The U.S. should claim eminent domain over the 16 acre site in Manhattan, kick all of the foreign parasites out and use the buildings for homeless vets or some other useful and beneficial purpose.
Trump should save his cash to buy the building after they go bust.
Better put locks on the doors attorney Headquarters. New
Finally ! - Welcome news ! - The UN will soon be bankrupt !
This reminds me of a very old carny con.
When’s a Federal Court Judge decree that we must fund the UN ?
Oh no! Where will NGOs get the money they need to support terrorism and communism?
3...2....1....
Please don’t threaten us with a good time.
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