The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the UN’s population agency and the UN treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as the US further retreats from global cooperation.

Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order suspending US support for 66 organizations, agencies and commissions following his instructions for his administration to review participation in and funding for all international organizations, including those affiliated with the UN, according to a White House statement on social media.

Most of the targets are UN-related agencies, commissions and advisory panels that focus on climate, labor and other issues that the Trump administration has categorized as catering to diversity and “woke” initiatives.

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      I don’t consider it an 'Empire", it’s basically England continued under a different name. Time for the U.S. of A. to rejoin Europe, as well as England admitting it made a mistake leaving the EU. Include also New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Argentine, Chile. When the smoke clears, include Ukraine and Russia. Drop all the artificial boarders, they’ve become nonsensical in an era of the Internet/Smartphones and cheap airline travel.

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        cheap airline travel

        Because we don’t carbon tax.

        And we don’t carbon tax because all those places don’t work together for the common good of all.

        And lumping all those together with the current systems of democracy where citizens get a vague say once every four years and every major corporation gets a say on every single law before it gets passed, will lead to and even bigger Empire that will fail even bigly-er.

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      You finally getting punished for all the evil your country did in the world. Trump is a result of the two party system that americans was always supporting for 2 centuries

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        Pretty sure the rest of the world is also still getting hurt by the current shit…

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        everyone is getting punished. I don’t think it’s another case of “exceptionalism” to state that this affects the world. Especially this.

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          Yeah, if nothing else right wing extremists are getting pointers from the US on how to take over their own countries.

          It’s like saying melanoma is only a problem for your skin. Sure, for a bit, but it’ll eventually metastasize.

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            They’ve been getting that for decades now, pretty much after they changed their approach after Vietnam.

            The contras part of the Iran/Contras scandal was about this in Nicuragua. CIA preferred the rightwing group that massacred whole villages over the lefwing group that had gotten power (though to be fair this conflict got pretty brutal on both sides, as can happen when one side is massacring entire villages).

            They had/have a school for training this kind of shit, too. Forget the name, but Behind the Bastards has talked about it several times.

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              My country is no perfect. My country didn’t destroy multiple countries and backed dozens of coups in the world though. F the united snakes again

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                I would suggest moving to lemmy.ml and browsing subs from .ml there they will agree with you. Also curious what country?

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      If y’all don’t do something about it, it certainly will.

      It’s starting to look an awful lot like waiting for the midterms is not an option.

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    Make America Alone Again. Coincidentally, that acronym sounds like a reasonable onomatopoeia for the bleating of sheep.

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    If I was running for president in the next 30 years I would offer to deliver this man and each of his tv host cronies to the hague, hog tied, after their trials here concluded.

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        It’s already happening. US skipped the last UN climate summit in Brazil last year and it was the most productive meeting yet because the US wasn’t there to derail everything into whatever their corporations want.