Is It Time for America to Leave the United Nations?

The United Nations is an organization that may well have grown so old, fossilized, and ineffective that it may well have outlived its usefulness.

On Tuesday, as this is being written, President Trump is preparing to speak at the UN's General Assembly in the United Nations headquarters in New York. While what he intends to say there has yet to be revealed, he has expressed reservations about the United Nations in the past.

The U.S. pays about 22% of the U.N. budget, yet critics say it gets little in return, arguing that the body is dominated by non-democracies, hostile to American interests, and fixated on condemning Israel.
President Donald Trump told reporters in February that the U.N. has “got great potential...but they got to get their act together. It’s not being well run, and they’re not doing the job.”

I'd argue that if the United Nations has, as the president puts it, "great potential," then there's little evidence for it. The United Nations, formed in the aftermath of World War 2 as an assembly of supposedly modern nations, has morphed into a dictators' club. In every General Assembly meeting, the ambient air temperature in New York increases by several degrees from all the hot air produced in the constant condemnation of Israel, all while expecting the USA to go on picking up almost a fourth of the cost.

Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, told Fox News Digital, “Calls for the U.S. to leave the U.N. reflect the deep frustration of millions of Americans who see their tax dollars funding a body that obsesses over condemning Israel while giving dictatorships a free pass.”
Critics point to the planned election of an Iranian regime official to the U.N.’s top human rights body as proof of its moral crisis.

This isn't the only stupid such appointment that the United Nations has made. In an op-ed earlier in the month, Yair Lapid, Israel’s former prime minister, pointed out a few more examples:

A mix of post-colonial guilt and ideological laziness led the U.N. to admit more and more non-democratic states. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, of the U.N.’s 193 member states, only 25 are "full democracies," with another 46 "flawed democracies." In other words, in every vote, on every budget, in every resolution, non-democracies hold an automatic majority. And they use it without the slightest qualm.
That’s how Iran sat on the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women in 2022, as Mahsa Amini was murdered. Syria chaired the Conference on Disarmament in 2018 while gassing its own citizens. North Korea presided over that very same disarmament conference in 2022 while openly brandishing nuclear weapons and firing ballistic missiles at Japan. China currently serves on the Human Rights Council — apparently because it cares so deeply about human rights.

One would be tempted to think this is some kind of joke - North Korea chairing the Conference on Disarmament? Iran on the UN Commission on the Status of Women? But this is no joke. This is the United Nations in the 2020s.

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It's not in the United States' interest to maintain our membership in the United Nations any longer. Perhaps President Trump, who has proven himself an adept deal-maker, could propose and help start up a "United Free Democratic Nations," which limits its membership to modern nations, those remaining democracies and representative republics (like the United States) that still recognize basic human rights.

Whether that happens or not, the United Nations has, as an organization, long since run its course. The UN has, in fact, become an absurdity. It's time the United States left it to fend for itself.

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