I & I Editorial BoardCorrection: As a reader helpfully points out, the U.S. does not provide 70% of the United Nations’ budget. We believe we derived that figure from a misreading of data. We regret the error.
According to the Council on Foreign Relations, the U.S. funds about 22% of the United Nations’ regular budget and about 26% of the peacekeeping budget. In total, the United States provides almost a third of all U.N. funding, says the CFR. The U.S. is still the largest donor, though it has less than 5% of the global population. The corrected figures appear in the fifth paragraph of the text.
The United Nations is going broke? Please, say it is so. The world’s largest parasite, the running cocktail party for despots, apparatchiks, terrorists, climate fanatics and Americanophobes, should be shut down — with prejudice.
News reports tell us the U.N. is facing imminent bankruptcy, headed toward a financial collapse and is at risk of insolvency. It’s “expected to officially run out of money in mid-August.”
The best part is “the United States is a big reason why.”
“The United States owes roughly $2 billion to the organization’s regular budget on top of another $2.2 billion for peacekeeping missions, a portion of which has accrued over decades – far and away more than any other country that is in arrears,” reports Politico.
And what has the U.S. gained, as the largest contributor — the American taxpayer generously provides 22% of the U.N.’s regular budget and about 26% of the peacekeeping budget — from the criminal-infested organization? Headaches … and worse.
More than six decades ago, American historian and journalist William Henry Chamberlin noted that the U.N., then not even 20 years old, had “a distinctly bad influence on American foreign policy,” with member states drawing the U.S. “into vendettas and one-sided positions which conform neither with principles of elementary justice nor with America’s own interests.”
Two decades later, the U.S. U.S. was “constantly under siege at the United Nations and reluctantly” had “come to regard it as hostile terrain,” said the Heritage Foundation. At the same time, the U.N. seemed “to work quite satisfactorily for the Soviet Union,” with the organization’s New York City building serving as a “base for Soviet espionage and propaganda.”
Today, the U.N. is in China’s thrall, is still anti-capitalism, still anti-American. U.N Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese, whose title strips naked any pretense that the U.N. isn’t antisemitic, calls the U.S. “a nation founded upon genocide.”
After last year’s airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, intended to lessen the risk that the maniacal regime would become an atomic weapons threat, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said he was “gravely alarmed by the use of force.” In his twisted mind, the mission was “a direct threat to international peace and security,” as if the mullahs in Tehran are peace-loving lambs who merely want to get along with everyone.
If possible, the U.N. is more anti-American than it ever has been, with the hated Donald Trump having been sent once again to the White House by a majority of voters and a landslide tally from the Electoral College.
On the global level, the U.N. is simply incompetent. Has it ever prevented or stopped a famine? What wars has it averted or cut short? Has the supposedly august body ended, or even made a dent, in slavery, genocide or any number of crimes against humanity?
No. But it does have rapists among its peacekeepers and some of its employees celebrated Hamas‘ cold-blooded torture and murder of 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7.
If somehow the U.N. does survive its budget crisis, the U.S. should pull out entirely, force the organization to vacate its First Avenue headquarters and push it into the East River so that prime piece of Manhattan real estate can be converted to productive use. Go broke, United Nations, and then go away.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
I agree absolutely. The UN has lived well beyond any usefulness it might ever have had and is nothing more than a profoundly anti-Western, anti-enlightement, anti-human evil.
Better yet, let them move the UN to Gaza. They will feel right at home among the terrorists from Hamas.
“A World Without The U.N. Is A Better Place” We’ve known this for DECADES. Sadly, not even Trump will dismantle it…or even fully pull the US out of this dictator’s club.
He Nailed . Don’t pay one cent to The UN and leave it and kick it out of The USA .
US out of the UN.
UN out of the US.
Seconded
The reason the United Nations was founded was and is nuclear war. That thinking is once again challenged. Mankind has not come to grips with this technology.
One nation, Iran, led by a theocracy, strives to develop a bomb, with the declared intent to destroy another nation, Israel. We learned recently that last summer, Iran was within a short time, of achieving their goal. America attacked their bomb making infrastructure. Iran restarted their work and in early 2026 was again within weeks of reacquiring the means to annihilate the Jewish state. It was created by the UN. Iran’s leadership is in disarray, no living leader speaks for them, except by using Taqiyya.
Today, many nations hate this Israel. The Pope rails against the US, or any nation, using the means to cause megadeaths, the slaughter of 1,000,000s within hours. I concur, in Tel Aviv, Tehran, Berlin, Moscow or New York. The sole solution is a regime change in Iran, controlled by internal, not external, forces. All must understand that the US will not be the first to use a nuke but will be the certain responder, perhaps the last responder.
For the record – According to Wikipedia, the 2025-27 UN budget has the US portion is 22%, not 70%.
Enough words gitter done quickly!!!!!!!
There is certainly still a place for a reformed and much better/wiser structured UN. Change rules of the committees for what nation has what authority and sits on which committee. Far too many absurdities of terrorist nations sitting on peace committees, etc. Temper the UN on the anvil of common sense.
A cautious comparison, please, to our dysfunctional and sophomoric Congress. Rules for Chair of committees are written so that any blithering fool who has been there the longest, and not yet sent to the funny farm, is automatically the Chair due to “seniority.”. Dysfunction? And make each of them subject to immediate ejection from chambers for pontificating, bloviating and then asking complicated questions of their guests while demanding a “Yes/No” answer. Congress members should be far less embarrassing.
I can’t believe we’re giving $2 billion to the UN. Why isn’t that called entitlement spending. I was forced to give to Medicare and SS-the UN doesn’t pay any taxes at all!!!
Well said. The UN has degenerated into a bottomless pit for money stolen from the American taxpayer. Sink it in the East River.