The United Nations wants to butter up President-elect Donald Trump to protect the funding that flows into its corrupt bureaucracy. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and the rest of the Trump administration shouldn’t fall for it.
Stefanik has been nominated by Trump as ambassador to the United Nations. Stefanik proved herself capable of the job when she led the questioning of Ivy League presidents over the antisemitism they allowed on campus, which included threatening to withhold the federal funds those universities receive. Stefanik will walk into a new role facing the same problem, as the U.N.’s institutionalized antisemitism is funded by billions of American taxpayer dollars.
As a result, the U.N. is reportedly preparing a “charm offensive” for Stefanik and the Trump administration, “from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to the lowliest staff assistant.” The U.N. wants to get on the good side of Trump and Stefanik because, according to one diplomat, “it’s better to work with them than fight them.” At the same time, those diplomats are threatening to turn to China to “fill whatever vacuum” the United Staets would leave behind by cutting funding.
Stefanik should hold them to both of those thoughts. If the U.N. wants to “work with” the U.S., it needs to permanently reform its structure that rewards human rights abusers with an equal say on human rights issues as the U.S. and its democratic allies. Seats on the Human Rights Council or National Security Council should be reserved for countries that are not human rights violators or threats to global security and stability. Any U.N. institution that treats Israel as global enemy No. 1, which is to say almost every U.N. institution, should be gutted.
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If the U.N. isn’t willing to “work with” the U.S. on this, then it should no longer receive any American funding. If that means China “fills the vacuum,” so be it. China already owns the U.N. because of the organization’s default commitment to coddling authoritarian regimes. U.S. funding hasn’t stopped the World Health Organization from being corrupted by Chinese political interests, whether that be covering up the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic and its origins in China or isolating Taiwan despite its warnings about the virus.
The U.N. is a vessel for dictators and terrorists and a money pit that funnels U.N. funding to useless bureaucrats who are as incompetent as they are morally bankrupt. If the U.N. is not willing to radically reform itself, its “charm offensive” means nothing, and Stefanik should tell Guterres to take more from China’s pockets if the U.N. is already willing to do China’s bidding with American funding.