Posted on 09/13/2016 6:23:36 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
They’d be pretty powerless with a much reduced contribution from the US to the kitty each year...It’s a useless organization that needs to disband PERIOD. The countries left to do their mischief would still find a way to do it without the UN..then countries would have a decision to make, wouldn’t they? Nothing says individual countries can’t go after the ones causing trouble WITHOUT the added complication of UN policy!
YES! Them get the U.N. OUT of th U.S.
Do it!
Agreed, but the sequence of events needs to be: cut off funding first, and push the UN offshore to some other country. Let it shrivel into irrelevance, and THEN exit on the grounds that it no longer has any purpose. Retain our veto until the UN can no longer cause any significant harm. If we bail out first, the UN will still have a few years of influence before it collapses, and could wreak much havoc without the US participating.
Such an abrupt departure might also prompt some other major power to step in and try to keep it afloat, such as the EU apparatus in Brussels, or Russia, or even some of the Middle Eastern monarchies. Granted that they wouldn’t be able to keep it going for very long, but they might be able to run it long enough to really foul things up, especially for Israel.
The UN has long tried to assert jurisdiction over the non-territorial areas of the ocean. Imagine a UN treaty, agreed to by all remaining members minus the US (or at least the major members), granting Russia exclusive control of the Arctic ocean, and China full authority over the entire South China Sea (and then some). If all the rest of the world more or less agrees to it, how could we gainsay it short of military conflict?
These guys should arrange a meeting with Trump so that it gets on his “First 100 Days” hit list of things to do. ;-)
It won't go anywhere this time around, but it's still a good idea.
Is it 1985 again?
This has to happen if America is going to remain a sovereign nation like the Native American nations are.
Mike Rogers will forever have my full support for introducing this Bill.
Is it 1985 again?
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No, but IMHO if this had been done in 1985 America would now be immeasurably better off.
First step should be to kick the UN out of the US.
No more enjoying the use of prime New York real estate courtesy of the US taxpayers. Let them go have their meetings in some other country.
Be careful LP. You are making rational statements that are likely to get you tarred as a “globalist” around here.
Without US money the UN would quickly devolve to the condition of the EU.
Real power brokers, what?
And that's why we were yelling for it in 1985.
True, but the EU still wields considerable influence, and so would the UN at least for a time. The US must not relinquish its leverage in that body until it is so withered that it can no longer cause any real trouble. The best solution would be for the US to choke off funding to the point that other countries start bailing out first. Once the exodus becomes significant, it becomes much easier to walk away citing a general lack of participation.
Not to mention, if we stay in for a while after we cut down the influx of cash, it’s easier to deflect accusations of deliberate sabotage. After all, “we’re still participating, right? Surely the UN is about international relations, not money”?
YES!!! This is so so awesome.
This is going to cause a few UN pukes to have a pantload.
agenda 21 ping
Simply defund the UN criminal enterprise.
You make valid points, but I suspect that the UN would just collapse if the US left it. US money props it up, and if we shuttered the place all of these freeloaders would need to relocate from their plush offices in NYC to some other country.
They should go where they are needed. Syria sounds like a good fit.
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