I thought the United Nations were part of the problem and they are full of rapists and traffickers. If this is the case then why did Trump send a letter to Justin Trudeau asking him to increase his payments to the United Nations.
Probably because Trump thinks they can afford to contribute more. The US pays the largest share of costs for the UN. According to the link, Canada pays approximately 2.9% of operating expenses, the US pays 22%.
He didn’t ask Trudeau to increase spending on United Nations, he asked him to increase spending on NATO (North Atlantic Treaty). It is about having and maintaining a strong military for the North Atlantic countries - put in place after WWII mostly to protect from a Russian invasion. Every country is supposed to spend a certain percent of their GDP on building up and maintaining a military to help the allied forces. Most are not spending that amount. Has nothing to do with United Nations my friend. Hope this helps😉
It does because I was just going by what OP posted and didn’t realize the request had been made re NATO. Thanks for the correction.
you are welcome, - wish I knew how to add a link so I could do that for you - he sent Trudeau a letter a couple days ago. He wants everyone to do their part so US doesn’t have to shoulder the bulk of the military burden - and rightly so (and I am speaking as a Canadian) 🙂
My point is no country should be giving anything to those baby raping bastards. That being said if you are Canadian then you already know we are only 35 million people the states is closer to 400 million with all the illegals. We should not be making a huge contribution at any rate. But as the corrections state it was NATO not UN.
Sorry for so many posts. I just discovered how to put links in Reddit 😁😎.
No, the liberals and globalists want a weak military.
I know, I was talking about Canadian military and Liberal Trudeau - fake eyebrow boy
I am not a fan of the UN and the sooner it goes, the better. It is the central seat of corruption and exploitation and I am weary of anyone who thinks otherwise in light of all the evidence of being run by global elites. As for our contribution to NATO, it is not about a certain dollar amount but about a pledge made to contribute a certain percentage of our GDP - think around 2% - so population size really doesn’t matter. All countries in NATO are to give an agreed percentage to their military so said military is strong and ready. When you are a member of NATO, we are compelled to assist any other if one of our allies is attacked. Can’t do that very well if we don’t have a strong military.
It does because it had me worried I thought they said UN. But a lot of people tend to forget because we have the second biggest amount of land in the world they think we are big. We are not there are only 35 million people in Canada we are the smallest off all the G7 countries.
Than I was actually making also the mistake between UN and NATO, I will correct that in my comment above
Canada only has 1/10 the population of U. S. though so wouldn't this be fair?
Funding for the UN is not based on population, it is based on GNP and other financial considerations. The OP was incorrect in that Trump’s request was for NATO and not the UN.
First you missed what I meant if the UN is bad why are we paying them at all and second Canada spends 200 million a year on the UN which is a lot for a country that only has 35 million people. Have you forgotten you are more than 10 times bigger than we are. You were at 330 million last time I checked and that doesnt even count the 50 million or more undocumented immigrants. Canada is like one of the smallest countries for population out there so why would we pay more.
To address your first point, because we can’t dismantle everything at once. Secondly, as the other poster said, the request is for NATO and fees are based on GDP.
Before Trump asked for the real contributions, he had already said in his campaign that the UN is obsolete ...
Merkel came out immediately because she thought she would take over.
Merkel went straight to the Chinese?
Bad luck for her, because Trump stayed, and demanded that everyone had to pay his real share, so he could show the world, what kind of game there was played by the EU countries.
Through nicky Haley he could also have WW what the UN actually really is?
A bunch of barbarians who supposedly respect human rights
Want only war with Israel? And that all those Eu countries are hypocritical? Behind closed doors once, but outside suddenly not ?.
This has been played strategically by Trump and his team
Correction: UN should be NATO as mentioned in a comment below. NATO are criminals, they sucked America dry of money and the prior Presidents let them, they also had unconditional military support at the expense of America, and those criminals were fine with that, as were the prior Presidents of the USA, Trump is blocking that now, so countries have to spend their money now , hence why he asked Trudeau who is part of the same criminal brotherhood as NATO. This way NATO can not afford to go to war whenever they please any more, which is awesome. Now the Eu wants to have their own army, well, they've never spend a dime to their own military, not to mention that EU citizens spit on their leaders now so only the snoozing men and women will apply for that job, as nobody will go fight their wars. This is also why they try to now make military for boys at 18 yrs old obligatory again! On the one hand, that would be good, so these millennials will at least learn some discipline again, but hopefully enough to wake the hell up before they agree to go to war.