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Donald Trump, currently under the strong influence of arch neo-conservative John Bolton, his national security adviser, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a neo-con in \u201clibertarian clothing,\u201d has embarked on a policy to not only distance the United States from international organizations, but to withdrawal from them altogether. The only international organization Trump currently supports is NATO and that is only because Bolton, Pompeo, and other neo-cons advising Trump are proponents of unilateral warfare by the United States, with NATO forces as cannon fodder, wherever neo-con doctrine determines America\u2019s interests are threatened.<\/span><\/p>\nTrump\u2019s recent announcement that he is nominating Heather Nauert, a former Fox News \u201ctalking head\u201d-turned-State Department spokesperson for Pompeo, as the next US ambassador to the United Nations is another indication that Trump would, if possible, withdraw the US from the international organization.<\/span><\/p>\nTrump\u2019s naming of Nauert, a person who once inanely opined that the Allied D-Day landings in France represented a high-point in US-German relations, followed on the heels of Pompeo questioning the need for the UN and other international organizations. Speaking at a Brussels event sponsored by the German Marshall Fund, Pompeo lashed out at the UN, European Union, Organization of American States, African Union, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization, while referring to the Brussels-based NATO as an \u201cindispensable institution.\u201d Pompeo made no mention of Trump\u2019s recurring criticisms of NATO.<\/span><\/p>\nTrump\u2019s disdain for the UN is palpable. His selection of Bolton, the only US ambassador to the UN never to be confirmed by the Senate, as national security adviser sent a stark message to the UN. Trump, like many other far-right conspiracists, including members of the John Birch Society and white supremacist groups, have long advocated for American withdrawal and the expulsion of UN headquarters from New York. Their rallying cry \u2013 \u201cAmerica out of the UN and the UN out of America\u201d \u2013 feeds right into the neo-con game plan for diminution of UN power.<\/span><\/p>\nThe neo-cons, who only exist as a sustained force to ensure that Washington kowtows to Israeli interests, have long despised the UN for its resolutions condemning Israeli policies in the Middle East. In 1994, Bolton said, \u201cThe (UN) Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories. If it lost 10 stories, it wouldn\u2019t make a bit of difference.\u201d It was that 1994 statement \u2013 suggesting that the UN building\u2019s upper floors be destroyed and recalled so soon after the destruction of the World Trade Center \u2013 that partially resulted in the US Senate rejecting Bolton as ambassador to the UN. It was only by giving Bolton a recess appointment that George W. Bush was able to place him in the US delegation\u2019s seat.<\/span><\/p>\nIn Brussels, Pompeo, referring to the UN, asked, \u201cDoes it continue to serve its mission faithfully?\u201d Echoing Bolton\u2019s 1994 comment about the UN, Pompeo answered his own rhetorical question in stating, \u201cInternational bodies must help facilitate cooperation that bolsters the security and values of the free world, or they must be reformed or eliminated.\u201d Bolton and Pompeo represent a virtual \u201cdastardly duo\u201d in shredding treaty after treaty into \u201cneo-confetti.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nTrump\u2019s trashing of treaties and agreements has fit into a doctrinaire neo-con playbook. Since becoming president, Trump has pulled the United States out of the Paris climate-change agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement, and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Trump\u2019s replacement for NAFTA \u2013 the US-Mexico-Canada agreement (USMCA) \u2013 was only marginally different from its predecessor. Trump also withdrew the United States from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) because of what he cited as the organization\u2019s \u201canti-Israel bias.\u201d The UNESCO withdrawal was a classic neo-con move because it, once again, showed the world that America\u2019s actions were dictated by Israeli-controlled neo-cons like then-US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley.<\/span><\/p>\nTrump earned the world\u2019s opprobrium\u00a0when he scrapped America\u2019s signature on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) between the European Union, Russia, China, and Iran on Iran\u2019s nuclear program. Not only did Trump threaten increased sanctions on Iran, in violation of the JCPOA, but also threatened to impose them on the remaining signatories if they did not participate in the neo-cons\u2019 tightening of the screws on Iran. Trump also trashed several agreements with Cuba signed after the restoration of US-Cuban diplomatic relations during the Barack Obama administration. The Trump administration ordered closed the\u00a0Palestine Liberation Organization\u2019s (PLO) office in Washington, DC, which had maintained a diplomatic presence in Washington since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993.<\/span><\/p>\nIn December 2017, the US announced its withdrawal from the\u00a0Global Compact on Migration, which was adopted in 2016 by all 193-member states of the UN. The Trump administration also withdrew the US from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Again, showing that she was merely a puppet controlled by the Israelis, Haley gave as the reason for America\u2019s withdrawal from the UNHRC, the organization\u2019s \u201canti-Israel bias.\u201d IN another decision inspired by Trump\u2019s Israeli masters, Haley announced the slashing of US funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), the primary UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees, before committing to withdrawal from the agency entirely.<\/span><\/p>\nTrump has slashed US funding for the Joint United Nations Program on HIV\/AIDS, United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) (with vaccines for children being adversely impacted), UN Environment Program, UN Women and the UN Development Program, the\u00a0Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (over maritime and fisheries disputes with Canada), and the\u00a0World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The Trump administration opposes the WMO\u2019s dire warnings, all fact-based and peer-reviewed, about the effects of global climate change.<\/span><\/p>\nBolton announced that the US would issue travel bans on judges of what he called the \u201cillegitimate\u201d International Criminal Court (ICC), based in The Hague, and freeze the court\u2019s funds in the US financial system. Bolton also vowed that the US would never join the court.<\/span><\/p>\nTrump began veering into more dangerous territory when, in October 2018, he announced that the US would withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia. There were also indications that Trump would also abrogate the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). Bolton, backed by Pompeo, are known to be critics of the two arms control treaties. Nothing would make Bolton and Pompeo, modern-day \u201cDr. Strangeloves,\u201d happier than a major nuclear arms race.<\/span><\/p>\nIn April 2018, the Trump administration withdrew the US from the London-based International Coffee Organization, an international organization of coffee exporting and importing nations the John F. Kennedy administration helped create in 1962. It was Trump\u2019s first action after he fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Speaking recently at a public event in Houston, Tillerson revealed that Trump often wanted him to violate treaties in what would have constituted breaches of the law.<\/span><\/p>\nCharging that the Rome-based Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), a UN specialized agency, is involved in \u201cmission creep\u201d into global climate change policy, some Trump officials have threatened a US withdrawal from the agency. The US is already in arrears in dues to FAO. FAO established a Climate Change department in 2017. The Trump administration has also expressed opposition to the Carbon Offset and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which is based in Montreal.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Trump administration\u2019s opposition to environmental protection has also affected the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The US wants a go-slow approach on IMO rules that specify that ships must, in 2020, use fuels with 0.5 percent of sulfur or less.<\/span><\/p>\nOver a beef with China about parcel post rates, the Trump administration announced it was withdrawing from the Universal Postal Union (UPU), one of the world\u2019s oldest international organizations and one that predates the League of Nations. Today, the UPU is a UN specialized agency.<\/span><\/p>\nOther longstanding organizations under threat from Trump include the\u00a0Antarctic treaty System (ATS); the International Hydrographic Organization, based in Monaco; and the\u00a0International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), based in Abu Dhabi. The Trump administration, which is attempting to abrogate treaties with indigenous nations in North America and the Pacific, wants to limit, if not exclude entirely, indigenous Permanent Participants (PPs) in such organizations as the Arctic Council and Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP).<\/span><\/p>\nTrump has threatened to withdrawal from the World Trade Organization if it does not “shape up.\u201d Trump administration officials have also threatened US withdrawal from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) unless it abandons its support for \u201cnet neutrality\u201d \u2013 universal access rights to the Internet \u2013 something Trump adamantly opposes and has scrapped in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\nThe right-wing Heritage Foundation, which is primarily funded by corporate polluters, urged the Trump administration not to ratify the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Considering that most of the Heritage Foundation\u2019s proposal have quickly become Trump administration policies, it appears that UNCLOS will be joining JCPOA, UNESCO, TPP, and others in Trump\u2019s rubbish bin.<\/span><\/p>\nTrump has shown his disdain for cooperating with other world leaders by pointedly refusing to sign concluding communiques issued at the end of recent G7 and G20 summits.<\/span><\/p>\nPro-Trump Republicans in the US House of Representatives introduced a bill titled the \u201cAmerican Sovereignty Restoration Act.\u201d The bill called on the United States to \u201cterminate\u201d its membership in the UN.<\/span><\/p>\nTrump and his neo-cons have withdrawn from so many international organizations and agreements that his foreign policy has earned a shameful nickname: \u201cthe Withdrawal Doctrine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nSource<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump only supports NATO because Bolton, Pompeo, and other neo-cons advising him are proponents of unilateral warfare by the US, using NATO as cannon fodder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180271,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180268\/revisions\/180271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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