Remember when Trump floated withdrawing from NATO?
Remember when Trump stopped funding the WHO in the middle of the worst pandemic of the past 100 years?
America First has no room for friends for life. Only friends for the moment.
I remember when Trump took no actions at all toward pulling the US out of NATO, and did nothing other than use it as a rather dumb prop to try to coax NATO allies into meeting their spending obligations.
> Remember when Trump stopped funding the WHO in the middle of the worst pandemic of the past 100 years?
I remember when the WHO cooperated with China to knowingly lie about the pandemic, including trying to forestall borders from being closed, trying to forestall the isolation of China, lying about the nature of the virus including the risk that it posed, and committed global genocide in the process.
And the previous president had already got the Europeans to commit to meeting their obligations over a period of a certain number of years which they were moving towards. Trumps nonsense achieved nothing other than making the Europeans and the rest of the world recognize that the US has become deeply unreliable and move further towards China.
A stopped clock is right twice a day, and sometimes an idiot gets an answer right. There is zero reason for any US troops to be in Europe or the US to remain in NATO. We’ve been burning our wealth for 70 years subsidizing European defense, and their economies.
> I remember when Trump took no actions at all toward pulling the US out of NATO
In times of peace, alliances exist only in rhetoric. NATO has strength only insofar as people believe that member states will come to each other's aid. Trump called his commitment to the treaty into question, and in so doing made the alliance less strong. Surely you see this.
>> Remember when Trump stopped funding the WHO in the middle of the worst pandemic of the past 100 years?
> I remember when the WHO cooperated with China to knowingly lie about the pandemic, including trying to forestall borders from being closed, trying to forestall the isolation of China, lying about the nature of the virus including the risk that it posed, and committed global genocide in the process.
I mean, if lying abut the nature of the virus or the risks it imposed was grounds for dissolving an organization, then surely the federal government and many state governments should be dissolved by now.
But for the sake of argument, let's stipulate that what you wrote was 100% correct.
The WHO does lots of things. Apparently one of them is facilitating "global genocide" (kind of harsh?). Another one is helping countries, rich and poor alike, survive this very disease we're stipulating it brought into being.
Is America or the world safer today because the WHO lost its biggest funder? What replaces it?
If we don't want the WHO being unduly influenced by China, how does defunding it advance that cause?