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"When Donald Trump’s benefactor and cost-cutter-in-chief Elon Musk recently
supported a call for the United States to quit NATO and the United Nations, it
should perhaps have been more surprising.
But the first months of the second Trump presidency have already seen key parts
of the current international order undermined. Musk’s position fits a general
pattern.
Aside from the tilt towards a multipolar world order, the US now refuses to
recognise the International Criminal Court, has slashed its foreign aid
contributions, and has withdrawn from the World Health Organization, the UN
Human Rights Council and the Palestinian relief agency UNRWA.
With Trump’s domestic politics displaying a clear autocratic edge, the
rejection of the founding principles and ideals of the UN comes into sharper
relief. The intolerant and impatient negotiating approach he displayed with
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky also belies a disregard for cooperative
and consensus-based diplomacy.
The drive to slash the federal deficit dovetails with this general abandonment
of expensive international commitments. If the Trump regime follows through on
its apparent strategy of manufacturing crises to advance its agenda, then
leaving the UN entirely is a logical next step."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
