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‘Not something to celebrate': As it turns 80 and faces dwindling global clout, can the UN survive？
« on: June 29, 2025, 09:05:50 am »
‘Not something to celebrate': As it turns 80 and faces dwindling global clout, can the UN survive？
By  EDITH M. LEDERER
Updated 11:42 AM EDT, June 25, 2025
 
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations, a collaborative global dream built into reality out of the ashes of World War II, marks its 80th anniversary this month. There’s little to celebrate.

Its clout on the world stage is diminished. Facing major funding cuts from the United States and others, it has been forced to shed jobs and start tackling long-delayed reforms. Its longtime credo of “multilateralism” is under siege. Its most powerful body, the Security Council, has been blocked from taking action to end the two major wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

And as the latest conflict between Israel, Iran and the United States flared, it watched from the sidelines.

Four generations after its founding, as it tries to chart a new path for its future, a question hangs over the institution and the nearly 150,000 people it employs and oversees: Can the United Nations remain relevant in an increasingly contentious and fragmented world?

With its dream of collaboration drifting, can it even survive?

https://apnews.com/article/un-80-anniversary-funding-divided-war-reform-985385cba3547a2e4286091ff36a1207
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Re: ‘Not something to celebrate': As it turns 80 and faces dwindling global clout, can the UN surviv
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2025, 09:06:59 am »
You can't "collaborate" with international leftists any better than with American leftists. **nononono*
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Re: ‘Not something to celebrate': As it turns 80 and faces dwindling global clout, can the UN surviv
« Reply #2 on: Today at 01:48:03 am »
We don't need (nor want) a Global Government.

Especially when it is a panel with more totalitarians than not.
It has become a refuge for grifters and NGO scallywags, and it would be difficult to assess just how much of our money has been sent there to line the pockets of tinpot dictators and other international scammers.
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Re: ‘Not something to celebrate': As it turns 80 and faces dwindling global clout, can the UN surviv
« Reply #3 on: Today at 08:18:23 am »
The U.N.'s positive contributions over the years are what, exactly?
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Re: ‘Not something to celebrate': As it turns 80 and faces dwindling global clout, can the UN surviv
« Reply #4 on: Today at 09:37:51 am »
The UN should be left to die like Woody Wilsons League Of Nations.
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Re: ‘Not something to celebrate': As it turns 80 and faces dwindling global clout, can the UN surviv
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Quote from: mountaineer on Today at 08:18:23 am
The U.N.'s positive contributions over the years are what, exactly?

Staying out of conflicts.
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