USA withdraws from numerous international organizations

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USA withdraws from 66 international organizations

The USA is leaving numerous international organizations. Trump wants to spend a lot more money on armaments. All developments in the news blog.

The Trump administration Trump will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the United Nations Population Organization and the UN agreement that governs international climate negotiations. The White House announced this.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday suspending U.S. support for 66 organizations, agencies and commissions. He had previously ordered his government to review participation in and funding of all international organizations, including those affiliated with the United Nations.

Most of the entities affected are UN-affiliated agencies, commissions and advisory bodies that deal with issues such as climate, labor and other areas. The Trump administration classifies these as promoting diversity and “woken” initiatives.

In the US Congress, several Republican colleagues of President Donald Trump have expressed criticism of a possible military operation to annex Greenland. Senator John Curtis wrote on Platform The huge Arctic island of Greenland with around 56,000 inhabitants is largely autonomous, but officially belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark.

Don Bacon, a member of the House of Representatives, criticized the government’s mind games on Greenland as harmful and only causing anger among NATO allies. He also told CNN that the idea of ​​annexing Greenland was one of the “stupidest” things he had heard from the White House in a year. He hopes other Republicans will also clearly tell the government that it is on the wrong track here.

Senator John Kennedy said after a congressional briefing by Secretary of State Marco Rubio that even a “moderately intelligent ninth grader” would know that invading Greenland would be “rocketically stupid.” Neither President Trump nor Secretary Rubio are stupid, he emphasized. “They are not planning to invade Greenland,” he told CNN. That does not rule out striving for a new legal basis for the defense of the USA and Greenland.