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Also the practicality of this is that most of the UN funding will come from the US. When a situation like this where US is cutting funding arises you get the same problem. Almost all finding will dry up overnight and they won't have sufficient funding to continue

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Yep, keenly aware of that, but if we’re building a new future that’s resilient to modern structural collapse and civilizational crises, then part of that is changing the structure of the UN, dues/fees, and its functions. There’s a lot to discuss there once enough folks have accepted the era of US Hegemony is over.

High hopes, those. The point of sabotaging US hegemony was not to hand power over to a monolithic, democratic, primarily Western institution, I'll tell you that much. I suspect that the Galts want their gulches (with Do Not Create Rapture as the template).

I sort of wonder when the UN is getting thrown out of New York by the current administration.

I have no doubt China would offer a far better location somewhere like Shanghai. The intelligence benefits of so many foreign diplomats and spies walking your street, drinking in your bars, paying your hookers, is incalculable.

Sure. But if US gov is doing it, there's no clear way for other countries to just jump in and foot the bill. If UN is in charge, other countries could just keep paying for it.

Whether that would happen is to be seen, but now it's down right impossible.

And they can just pull out of it whenever and frame the UN as a boogeyman like with the WHO.

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