THe united nations and its agencies have long struggled with funding shortages. Today a covered problem has become a sharp crisis in the shadow of Donald Trump’s ax. The US is the greatest contributor, by 22%, to the core budget in the UN. In February, The White House announced A six-month review of US membership to all international organizations, conventions and agreements, including UN, with a view of gardening – and possible withdrawal. Deadline for decapitation falls next month.
Trump’s Delete In the US agency for international development (USAID), and scraping most help programs, it has been harmed without decaying and replacing people, who rely on prejudice funding. However Trump’s ax symbolizes a more basic threat – in multilateralism and many international international orders. The basic concept of collective responsibility for maintaining global peace and security, and collaboration to partake of sharing problems – attached to the UN Creating 80 years ago Last week – it’s on the chopping block.
Stakes are high – and Washington is not the only villain. Like the US, about 40 countries are behind the payment of obligations each year. Discrueonary donations are reduced. The UN Charter, a statement on the basics of construction, makes the failure to stop the illegal war in Russian attack in Ukraine (and last month attacks in Iran). China and so on, including the UKDo not ignore international law if it is suitable. The number and long life of conflicts The whole world rises;; The UN messengers were sidelined; Peaceeping Missions are bored. The security council is always paralyzed by vetoes; General Assembly is powerless. Through many steps, the UN does not work.
A crunch hooms. If the UN is allowed to fail or minimize its agencies do not completely act, there is no place to get it. No, that is, except for the forest law, as seen in Gaza and other conflict zones where UN agencies excluded,, Kill the workers with help and legal behavior flow. UN system has many failures, self-inflicted. But a world without the UN is, for most people in most places, more dangerous, hungry, poorer, poor and less durable.
The US is not expected to leave from UN to all (although nothing is impossible with this ideaista, ultra-nationalist president). But Trump’s enemy can be seen. His 2026 Budget proposal Looking for an 83.7% cut – from $ 58.7bn to $ 9.6bn – all international US expenditure. That includes an 87% reduction in UN funding, equal obligatory and discretion. “In 2023, A whole US expenditure on the UN worth of $ 13bn. It is equivalent to 1.6% of the Pentagon Year’s budget ($ 816bn) – or about two-thirds to what Americans spend the ice-cream every year, “Stewart Patrick in Carnegie endowment for international peace noted. Economic economic assistance, disaster comfort programs and family planning programs can be destroyed.
The effect can change the world. Key UN agencies in the firing line include Funds in children, UNICEF – In a time when the risks facing children and children are annoying; THE World food program (WFP), which can lose 30% of its staff; Agencies that govern refugees and migrations, which are also shrinking; THE International Court of Justice (The “court of the world”), which shines in the illegal actions of Israel in Gaza; And the International Atomic Energy Agency, monitoring nuclear nuclear activities in Iran.
Trump has already removed the World Health Organization, the Palestinian Relief Agency (UNRWA) and UN Human Rights Council, and have Becomes $ 4bn allocated to the UN climate fund, saying that everyone acts contrary to interest in us. If his budget has adopted this autumn, the UN 2030 Durable goals in progress may prove to be inappropriate. US finance backing for international pioneering and observer missions in the problems of Lebanon, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kosovo, which total expenditures, penetrating zero.
The withdrawal of USAID support is to prove fatal, anywhere from Somalia and Sudan to Bangladesh and Haiti. UN officials describe post-earthquake, conflict-riven, help-deprived Myanamar as a “humanitarian catastrophe”. Lancet published research found that Trump cuts could cause more than 14m additional deaths By 2030, third to their children.
The WFPThe largest supplier of food assistance in the world, says the expected $ 8.1bn fund lack of fund this year Acute ulang affected a record 343 million people in 74 countries. And other donor states fail to fill the gap left in the US. Up to 2025, only 11% of $ 46.2bn required for 44 non-priority crisis raised. The UK recently lightened the help budget by £ 6bn, pay for nuclear bombs.
UN trees recognize that many problems pre-date trumpet. António Gerteres, the Secretary General, initiated Thousands of work cuts As part of “UN80“The plan of reform is united in operations and reduce core budgets up to 20%. But the main character of the member member member’s member of the United States members in the first way.” The rules at first failed. This is not a menu in La La Carte. This is the bedrock of international relations, “he said.
Gracures say the greatest success since 1945 prevents the world’s third world. However the assessor’s respects such as Fiona Hill faith It has begun. UK and other democracies face some compelling questions. Will they give Trump again once more? Or will they fight to stop this President of Renegade and Rogue saying Russia and Israel break the best defense in the world against the worldly anarchy, to war and unnecessary suffering?
Will they fight to save the UN?
