OPINION:
America, under President Trump’s leadership, is poised to withdraw from 66 international organizations, commissions and agencies, particularly those tied to the United Nations.
And all the globalists go: Yikes! Their honeypot — their money pot — is about to go dry.
“The Trump Administration has found these institutions to be redundant in their scope, mismanaged, unnecessary, wasteful, poorly run, captured by the interests of actors advancing their own agendas contrary to our own, or a threat to our nation’s sovereignty, freedoms and general prosperity,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, announcing Trump’s plans.
Out with the new world order.
In with the America First order.
“Trump Pulls Out of Global Climate Agreement,” The New York Times wrote.
Yes. That’s one. That’s the one the United Nations has successfully pushed for 34 years, the treaty to beat all treaties in terms of the far-reaching impacts it’s had on development, production, taxation, regulation and controls; yes, that one — the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or the UNFCCC.
From that beast came the Paris agreement where sovereign nations agreed to cede their ability to produce at-will as a means of lowering emissions. Of course, top polluter China doesn’t abide its terms. And meanwhile, the U.S. Senate never ratified the Paris agreement. So its overall effect in America has been a Democrat-pushed restriction on development and production that’s simultaneously allowed the good communists of China to build, build, build and mine, mine, mine and drill, drill, drill. Democrats loved the climate change accord because they love communism, and they love even more the idea of controlling the American people.
Trump?
Not so much.
“The administration said it was also pulling the United States from the top United Nations climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as well as a host of other major international environmental organizations,” The Times wrote.
The IPCC’s main reason for existing was to support the science of climate change the United Nations wanted put into the public for consumption, and to deny the science of climate change the United Nations wanted squashed. In other words: The IPCC was the main propaganda arm for the global environmentalist quest for control and power.
From the IPCC came the likes of “12 years until global doomsday!” — a shrill cry to clamp down on driving, burning wood and breathing as a means of controlling carbon emissions. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, repeated the 12 years’ countdown frequently; that should tell all that’s needed to know about its accuracy — especially when the years went by, but her “12” never moved in tandem. There was no “11.” No “10.” Always “12.”
Another clever piece of propaganda, much more recent, is this one from this same Times piece announcing Trump’s pull from 66 global organizations: “The climate treaty … was established in 1992 and is referred to as the UNFCCC. It formed the legal foundation for the Paris agreement, a 2015 voluntary pact among nations to keep global temperatures at relatively safe levels.”
Yes. ‘Cause that’s what politicians in America are elected to do — to “keep global temperature at relatively safe levels.” Whatever that means. If one face mask controls carbon dioxide emissions, two must be better!
“U.S. to exit 66 international organizations in further retreat from global cooperation,” NPR wrote.
Happiest headline ever.
An America that retreats from cooperation with anti-America governments of the globe is an America that’s back on track to exceptionalism.
After all, America, with its core concept of God-given individual liberties and rights, is different from all other nations of the world. Why should America pretend otherwise?
“I think what we’re seeing is the crystallization of the U.S. approach to multilateralism, which is ‘my way or the highway,’” said Daniel Forti, head of U.S. affairs at the International Crisis Group, to NPR.
“It’s a very clear vision of wanting international cooperation on Washington’s own terms,” Forti said.
Yep.
Other nations should cooperate with America. They should be so lucky if America allows them to cooperate.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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