Wel vreemd, als je in ogenschouw neemt, dat de opvolgende VS regeringen en een groot deel van haar gehersenspoelde burgers vinden dat de VN de VS financieel leegzuigt....... Echter als je de geschiedenis van de VN bekijkt, zie je dat de VN keer op keer de terreur van de VS van een legitieme rand voorziet....
Het is intussen al zo zot, dat zelfs de vertegenwoordigingen van China en Rusland in de VN zich nog amper durven te verzetten tegen de ongebreidelde agressie van de VS, zie bijvoorbeeld de sancties die tegen Noord-Korea werden genomen......... Nogal wiedes dat Noord-Korea een atoomwapen wil hebben als bescherming tegen de VS, zeker als je ziet dat de VS dit land tijdens de Koreaanse oorlog volkomen heeft platgebombardeerd (men had op een geven moment geen doelen meer over om te bombarderen...)....
De schrijver van het volgende artikel (van Anti-Media, oorspronkelijk geplaatst op Consortium News), JP Sottile betoogt dat de VS de VN gebruikt als een regering voor de wereld, een regering waarin de VS de dienst uitmaakt (en mocht die regering niet doen wat de VS wil, grijpt de VS zelf in waarna de VN alsnog haar goedkeuring geeft........)....
Nooit werd de VS gestraft door de VN, behalve dan 'een gevalletje mijnen leggen' voor de havens van Nicaragua, waarvoor de VS alleen werd veroordeeld in de VN, maar niet werd gestraft...... Nu komt de VS zelfs weg met illegale oorlogen en duizenden (illegale) standrechtelijke executies, waarbij meer dan 90% van de vermoorde slachtoffers, veelal vrouwen en kinderen, niet eens werden verdacht...... Het Internationaal Strafhof in Den Haag is te schijterig om ook maar één zaak tegen de VS te beginnen....... Vergeet niet dat de VS sinds het eind van WOII meer dan 22 miljoen mensen ongestraft heeft kunnen vermoorden......
Lees het uitstekende artikel van Sottile, vol met nog veel meer feiten:
How the United Nations Supports the American Empire
For decades the American Right has decried the U.N. for encroaching on American sovereignty, but the truth is that the U.N. is a chief U.S. accomplice in violating the sovereignty of other nations, notes J.P. Sottile.
(CN) — President
Trump opened his big United Nations week … and his famous mouth …
with a predictable
plug for
one of his properties and some
playful glad-handing with
French President Emmanuel Macron. Trump also scolded the
U.N.’s unwieldy scrum for “not living up to its potential.” He
made a passing reference to the U.N.’s wasteful use of American
money. And he called for “reform” of
the much-maligned international
forum.
It
was a stolid
prelude to
what will no doubt be “must-see” TV when he speaks to the UN
General Assembly on
Tuesday about North Korea and Iran. And it was a far cry from the way
America’s leading “America Firster” spent the
campaign lamenting
how unfair the U.N.
is to the poor schlemiel we call Uncle Sam.
He
is likely to use his speech to throw a little bit of that same red
meat to his base, but his call for reform falls well short of
what his
supporters want …
which is an abrupt end of U.S. involvement in the international body.
They are motivated by a grab-bag of reasons that point to the U.N.
being a threat to their guns, their bank accounts and their God-given
freedom.
Oddly
enough, these conspiratorial narratives have been around for decades
and they mostly center on a grand plan by U.N. elites to abscond
American sovereignty and dissolve the U.S. into a U.N.-led world
government. And the evidence of this is the way the U.N. harasses and
restricts Uncle Sam while siphoning-off America’s wealth. At least,
that’s what some think.
Most
ominously, many object to the way U.N. funds are being used to
quietly deploy gun-grabbing
U.N. soldiers in
advance of the
big takeover.
But like so much of Trump’s intoxicating
irredentism …
this is a grievance more likely rooted in a three-day meth bender in
a Tallahassee trailer park than it is from shocking evidence gathered
from well-traveled observation. It’s paranoia. But really, it’s
worse than that.
Why?
Because the U.N. has basically been the complete opposite of what its
angriest critics claim. It is not out to get the U.S. Rather, it has
largely been America’s tool since its inception and, in particular,
it has repeatedly covered Uncle Sam’s overly-exposed butt as he
(a.k.a. “the royal we”) has gone around the world on a three
decade-long military bender since the end of the Cold War.
Yes,
the Gulf War was U.N. approved and the whole world got behind it
because (April
Glaspie’s backstory notwithstanding)
the prima
facie case
was strong and it was a fairly clear-cut example of unwarranted
aggression. That was an easy call.
Global Violence
But
since then, the calls have been nothing short of murky as the U.S.
has bombed and droned and deployed and invaded and covertly-acted and
regime-changed all around the globe. And the unspoken truth is that
the United Nations has been America’s all-too silent partner as
Uncle Sam traipsed around the planet with a loaded gun, remote
control assassination machines and paper-thin rationales for
intervention.
Although
the U.N. occasionally puts a bug up Israeli Prime Minister
Bibi Netanyahu’s ass on the issue of the slow-motion ethnic
cleansing in the West Bank … what other issue is there where the
U.N. has taken a real stand against the U.S. or U.S. policy
objectives?
Where
is the U.N.’s punishment for being lied to by then-Secretary of
State Colin Powell? And where is the punishment for destroying
a bystander nation under false pretenses? Where is the punishment for
Abu Ghraib or Gitmo?
Where
is the punishment for America’s summary execution of “suspected
militants” around the Muslim world simply because they are of
“military age” and in the wrong place at the right time … and
for the CIA, it is always the right time to kill a suspect no matter
how wrong the place many be. And where is the condemnation of
America’s destabilizing role as the world’s
leading supermarket of military hardware?
How
about mounting civilian causalities from an ever-widening widening
bombing campaign? The U.N. can say the killings are “unacceptable,”
but does it really matter if there is no sanction? There haven’t
been any sanctions after children were killed in a “U.S.-backed
raid”
in Somalia. Go figure, right?
Or
what about America’s complicity in the catastrophe of Yemen? Where
are those sanctions? And what exactly has the U.N. done to punish any
number of extra-legal maneuver by a succession of American presidents
over the course of the “Global War on Terror”? The simple answer
is nothing.
Instead,
the Secretary General is largely beholden to the disproportionate
influence of the United States. The Security Council’s agenda is
basically set by the United States … and that’s particularly true
since the Soviet Union collapsed. At the same time, the U.N.’s
occasionally contentious debates do little more than offer the
imprimatur of international approbation or well-noted disdain despite
the functionally inconsequential nature of those debates.
A Fig Leaf for Empire
Either
way it is a win for Uncle Sam because the presence of a neutered
United Nations provides the United States with a fig leaf just big
enough to cover the dangly parts of America’s otherwise naked
empire.
The
money that does go from the U.S. Treasury into the minutia around the
margins … like UNESCO programs and United Nations Development
Program (UNDP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) and all the
other little crumbs that get thrown around the world … these are
payoffs. This is what the world gets for mostly keeping its mouth
shut in the face of America’s globe-spanning empire. The tiny
amount of aid that trickles down past the bureaucracy … much like
the bureaucracy itself … is not an example of America “getting
played” by wasteful foreigners with hidden agendas. This is America
paying to play the world like organ grinder with a hurdy-gurdy
monkey.
Frankly,
the “28.5%
of the overall peacekeeping bill”
that Trump calls “unfair” (about
$2.2 billion of the $3.3 billion the U.S. gives to the UN annually)
is a pittance … particularly if you want the unchecked right to
tell Persians what they can and cannot do in the Persian Gulf, to
tell the Chinese what they can and cannot build in the South China
Sea, and to tell every other power on the face of the earth why they
cannot have the same nuclear capability America not only has … but
is currently “upgrading” to
the tune of $1.5 trillion.
Even
more amazingly, the U.S. wants to deny these nations the only real
insurance policy against U.S.-led regime change. And why is that?
Because there ain’t a Curveball’s chance
in Hell that the U.N. will ever be able to stop Uncle Sam from
marching where he wants, when he wants and for whatever reason he
wants to cook-up. That’s a historically
provable fact.
The
only real check on U.S. power is the ability of an asymmetrical power
to go nuclear. And let’s admit it, they are ALL asymmetrical powers
when compared to America’s gargantuan, trillion-dollar
national security beast.
And this is why the U.N.’s “partnership” with
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is the only U.N.-associated
agency that really matters. They can’t do much, but they can throw
a wrench into another WMD snipe hunt … like
they are doing now with the Iran Nuclear Deal.
But
like it was tested by Team Bush, the IAEA is going to be tested again
as Trump and Netanyahu make
their bogus case …
without a hint of irony … that Iran is the world’s greatest
threat. But that’s really just par for a course that’s riddled
with falsified flags haphazardly stuck into the shallow holes of a
back nine that’s actually been built by and for a club-wielding
Uncle Sam.
A Cult of Grievance
And
therein lies the truly pernicious part of the Trumped-up case against
the U.N. … because, like so much of America’s growing cult of
grievance, it reflects an ever-widening gap between America’s
stated ideals and its self-serving behavior around the world.
As we are learning almost daily, Americans tried to square that circle by electing a profligate liar who fully embodies America’s insatiable desire to take credit, particularly where none is due … and to outsource the blame to scapegoats like the U.N., particularly when the only alternative is a long look into the mirror.
And
in the case of the U.N., that projected guilt is in spite of the fact
that it is often tasked with quietly cleaning up some of the
collateral damage wrought by their main accuser. They just have to do
so without any real power or the funds to do the job. That’s the
simple truth you won’t hear in Trump’s speech … or any speech,
for that matter.
It’s
the fact that the U.N.’s meager amount of “wasteful spending”
doesn’t even begin to cover the cost of doing business when your
business depends of paying the world to look the other way while you
get away with murder.
JP
Sottile is a freelance journalist, radio co-host, documentary
filmmaker and former broadcast news producer in Washington, D.C. He
blogs at Newsvandal.com or
you can follow
him on Twitter.
By
JP Sottile / Republished with permission / Consortium
News
