What is this? The Red Scare all over again?
Grok must have burned out a few GPUs thinking up this scheme.
Trump will probably see them not filling out the questionnaire as “They are all communists! Every single one of them. UN is communist. They do not answer questions. They are communist.” (in trump’s voice)
Conservatives unironically think this though
Why would they even care, the UN is not Nato, they don’t have to do shit the USA tells them, no?
It’s most likely done as a pretext to attack the UN for having ties to China.
usa putting their soft power through the wood chipper. I’m amazed at how short sighted trump’s team is.
American farmers are going to get screwed. If there is no money for the UN to buy food the market will be over saturated and prices will drop.
I think the effects of an American pull out will be less significant than the funding numbers. So much of that aid money gets funneled back into the us economy. The interim period while prices and funding gets rebalanced will be rough.
it really is an incredible own goal on the soft power front, I was genuinely and surprisingly asked recently by a close friend, whether it has always been like this
the answer to questions of this type, which many people here should be able to give, should be: yes and
if i listen intently I can actually still hear jaws hitting the floor in europe – the shock is palpable
