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That's my position. I don't want to give the UN money (look how dysfunctional and corrupt the WHO is), but I do want military spending to go down. Why make it more politically difficult than it needs to be. What's the benefit of coupling reductions in military spending with giving more money to the UN... These are totally unrelated things and coupling them needlessly achieves nothing.

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> look how dysfunctional and corrupt the WHO is

[citation needed] - but like, an actual one. I know this is a popular conspiracy theory at the moment.

One was provided already by another poster. I don't even need to give more because that should be sufficient.

But if you want to dig further, you should look at the timeline of the WHO's actions and see how slow they were to recommend masks, recommend border closures, and declare a pandemic, then ask yourself if they helped or hurt our efforts to contain COVID throughout 2020. No citation is needed for that, it's all in the public domain - their press conferences and their Twitter.

I don't think any of what you are saying here amounts to any sort of corruption.

Read the article. The management of WHO covered up sexual abuse, up until an investigative journalist blew it open. Yes, they are a deeply corrupt organization.

That's not corruption as it pertains to their objectives though. That's a crime, one that should be punished, obviously. It doesn't have anything to do with the primary objectives of the WHO, especially not as it pertains to for instance COVID. Corruption would be, hypothetically, taking payoffs or bribes to avoid doing their jobs. You have not, and nor has anyone else here, offered evidence of corruption.

Well I just read the definition of corruption as dishonesty for gain, and this cover-up fits the bill.

Even if they don't fit that definition, they're a broken and grossly incompetent organization that covers up their own criminality, with no mechanism for accountability.

How else do you think a singer of Chinese military propaganda songs got in there, with literally no qualifications? After the CCP's good friend Tedros was elected he made Xi's wife as well as Xi's good buddy Robert Mugabe WHO goodwill ambassadors (the latter was removed again after an international outcry). Not sure how much more obvious it could get. Imagine it was the 1940s and the WHO hired Eva Braun.

Yes. If they are to be decoupled, I'd rather give the peace dividend to Elon Musk.

In what way is the WHO “dysfunctional and corrupt”? Everyone I know with ideas like that seems to have a very questionable world view.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/world-health-organization...

Child sex abuse, for starters

That's like throwing away Congress because Matt Gaetz exists. There may or may not be good reasons to abolish Congress, but Matt Gaetz alone ain't it.

Matt Gaetz is a single person. The linked article shows that this was an institutional problem at the WHO involving corrupt management. So the analogy is flawed. Also the sex abuse isn't the only thing wrong with the WHO.

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