Originally Posted by
Gandalf
Originally Posted by
TitoFan
Trump replaced NAFTA? Ok... I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on that one.
Trump wants to pull the U.S. out of NATO? Meh... ok. I suppose NATO needs to prove it's worth the expense.
Trump is pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Accord? Geez... ok. We'll try and roll with his assertion that China's not paying its fair share.
Trump has pulled funding out of the WHO?
FUCK YOU, TRUMP!!
I'm tired of making excuses for the stupid fuck.
I'm tired of pretending there is some objective middle ground one can inhabit regarding Trump.
The WHO needs strengthening and reinforcement. Not having its major donor cut their legs out from under them.
Even if you BUY Trump's cockamamie version of this all being "the WHO's fault"...... the WHO is still the organization that exists for this very purpose... to protect humanity from the next pandemic (among other things).
No amount of word-twisting, version-fabricating, silver-cloud-conjuring is going to change the fact that the WHO is all we have in a global sense.
Here's hoping the next President undoes much of the damage Trump has done.
I 100% support Trump on this. It was the right thing to do. If the WHO is willing to self appraise and reflect on the damage it has done, then fine, fund them again. Until then they do not deserve the excessive funding that was given by the US. They failed to protect humanity from anything and if anything made things significantly worse.
It's a global entity Gandalf.... not a political adversary.
They were created with a mission. If they're not delivering, overhaul the damn entity. But don't destroy it without something else to take its place.
There needs to be a global entity to look after the world population's health, countries' sovereignty be damned.
After what we're going through, I'm personally not in the mood for political games.
Fix the damn thing, or replace it with something that will do the job. Taking funding away from an already under-funded entity is hardly doing anyone any good. It's a bullshit move.
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