Republicans should take much of their ire toward NATO or Ukraine and direct it toward the United Nations. In fact, defunding and leaving the U.N. should be a GOP priority.
The U.N.’s top “human rights” official is now accusing Israel of war crimes, calling Israel’s defensive war against the terrorists who run Gaza “brutality” and “carnage.” This is despite the fact that Israel regularly subjects its own troops to dangerous scenarios to avoid simply leveling buildings as its detractors are convinced it does.
At best, the U.N. is pulling the “both sides” card and comparing a genocidal terrorist regime in Hamas to the country the terrorists want to destroy and whose civilians they regularly try to slaughter en masse. Typically, though, Israel gets all the blame and all the condemnations, official or unofficial. That is where the U.N.’s priorities rest.
To recap, the U.N. is antisemitic, pro-authoritarian, pro-terrorist, bloated, corrupt, and mostly useless. And yet we continue to funnel taxpayer money to it, to the tune of more than $18 billion in 2022 alone. That is more than the United States spent on foreign aid to any other country in 2022, including Ukraine.
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To top it all off, unlike NATO, the U.N. is unpopular among the public. The U.N. receives a poor grade from 58% of voters, including 61% of independents. While 67% of people want the U.S. commitment to NATO to stay the same or even increase, just 33% think the U.N. does a good job. So, again, for what are we paying billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars?
There are intraparty debates about funding for Ukraine and, to a lesser extent, NATO membership. There is no debate among Republicans about the merits of the U.N., at least not one being hashed out in public discourse. Given that, combined with the U.N. being far more unpopular than NATO or funding for Ukraine, it is clear that full defunding and disassociation with the U.N. should be a far higher priority for Republicans than it is right now.