Donald Trump he intends to hold a tough line towards the United Nations. This is certified by the choice of the Republican congresswoman Elise Stefanik as the next American ambassador to the UN. The person concerned is in fact a historic critic of the United Nations: she has repeatedly accused them of promoting an anti-Semitic line hostile to the State of Israel.
“If the Palestinian National Authority were to succeed in its anti-Semitic intent, it would entail a complete overhaul of US funding of the United Nations. American taxpayers have no interest in continuing to fund an organization that Joe Biden And Kamala Harris they have left to rot in anti-Semitism,” she said Stefanik in October. “Last week, the United Nations passed by a large majority a shameful anti-Semitic resolution demanding that Israel surrender to barbaric terrorists who seek the destruction of both Israel and America,” he further said in September.
By choosing the Stefanik as the next American ambassador to the UN, Trump It therefore aims to reassure Israel and simultaneously issue a warning to the United Nations. The president in pectore also aims to restore the Abraham Accords: his idea is to promote a rapprochement between Israelis and Saudis, while at the same time putting Iran under pressure. On the other hand, Trump wants to revive the so-called “deal of the century”, to try to put an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We remind you that, in addition to the historical relationships with Benjamin Netanyahu And Mohammad bin Salman, Trump has recently started a détente also with Abu Mazen. The tycoon therefore wants to leave behind the ambiguous positions held so far by the United Nations on the Middle East issue and aims to resolve it by playing with these three leaders.
But the Middle East is not the only dossier on which Trump will probably clash with the UN. The president in pectore in fact intends to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on the climate again. In particular, he could notify his resignation on the very day of taking office in the White House. Furthermore, the tycoon has never made a secret of his desire to leave that agreement. Trump in fact, it aims to give a strong signal to the blue collar workers of the Rust Belt who fear the socioeconomic impacts of some too radical green policies. Not only that. The president in pectore also wants to revive the oil and gas sectors, to safeguard the energy independence of the United States. Last but not least, Trump has always considered the Paris Agreements as a tool to ensure that China carries out unfair competition to the detriment of Washington.
A final front of fibrillation with the UN will probably be the health sector. Beyond the nomination of Robert Kennedy Jr to the Department of Health, Trumpalready during his first mandate, he had clashes with the World Health Organization. In particular, in 2020 the tycoon accused her of being a “puppet of China”. He then announced a stop in American funding for this agency, finally initiating the procedures for its abandonment: a process which was subsequently blocked by Biden. It is not at all excluded that Trump can restore the tough approach with the World Health Organization. The point is that, not entirely wrongly, the tycoon now sees the UN as increasingly subject to Beijing’s political influence. And this explains, at least in part, the line of severity that the incoming American administration wants to promote towards the United Nations.
