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It Was Disgusting

by Bryan

Having the Republican Congressional leaders suck up to Trump in a manner that will make Kim Jong-Un green with envy caused me serious gastrointestinal distress. No one should be subjected to that base level of pandering.

After the near canonization by Pence and Carson in the Cabinet meaning, and Pence’s claim of the world’s acceptance of US leadership under Trump, the UN General Assembly disagreed Jerusalem: UN resolution rejects Trump’s declaration

The non-binding resolution was approved by 128 states, with 35 abstaining and nine others voting against.

It came after US President Donald Trump threatened to cut financial aid to those who backed the resolution.

How did UN members vote?

  • The nine who voted against the resolution were the US, Israel, Guatemala, Honduras, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Togo
  • Among the 35 abstaining were Canada and Mexico
  • Those voting in favour included the other four permanent members of the UN Security Council (China, France, Russia and the UK) as well as key US allies in the Muslim world
  • There were 21 countries who did not turn up for the vote.

Definitely not a major ‘coalition of the willing’ and not much to show for the near North Korean level of threat. The US under Trump and UK after Brexit are declining world powers while China and India are rising. The threat to cut ‘foreign aid’ was absurd as most of US foreign aid goes to US companies to supply overpriced goods and services to foreign countries. The biggest losers if Trump cuts foreign aid will be US defense contractors.

2 comments

1 oldwhitelady { 01.01.18 at 5:33 pm }

I never even thought about the foreign aid, and who benefits. US Defense Contractors will have lobbyists, etc., sucking up to make sure they still get theirs.

2 Bryan { 01.01.18 at 7:27 pm }

Most US foreign aid is in the form of goods and services, not actual money. A lot of aid is in the form of Dept of Agriculture market support commodities, i.e. surplus food products. Much of the aid is military, so Boeing et al. would have a fit if Trump cut aid to Egypt, for example. Most of the money isn’t ‘foreign aid’ as much as corporate welfare, and even then the US budget is pitiful compared to Canada and most European nations.