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Vote Against Us? Kiss your Aid Goodbye


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2017 Dec 20, 3:43pm   10,193 views  51 comments

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About time.

WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to cut off financial aid to countries that vote in favour of a draft United Nations resolution calling for the United States to withdraw its decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

"They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we're watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We'll save a lot. We don't care," Trump told reporters at the White House.

The 193-member U.N. General Assembly will hold a rare emergency special session on Thursday - at the request of Arab and Muslim countries - to vote on a draft resolution, which the United States vetoed on Monday in the 15-member U.N. Security Council.

The remaining 14 Security Council members voted in favour of the Egyptian-drafted resolution, which did not specifically mention the United States or Trump but which expressed "deep regret at recent decisions concerning the status of Jerusalem."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-threatens-cut-aid-u-n-members-over-171947909.html
"US is evil, do bad thing, now Yankee you GIVE MONEY!!!"

#politics #UN #GatheringOfCorruptOligarchs

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51   WatermelonUniversity   2017 Dec 22, 9:37pm  

What about other countries? Your single anecdote doesn’t disprove anything not to mention you are arguing the point no one is making. Even trying to bring Obama into this as if trump did any better.

Quigley says
BorderPatrol says
This right here tells you how much trump fails as the country leader. All that money spent buying their votes are wasted because trump has a big mouth and zero diplomatic skill.


And that statement shows just how little you understand of the situation! Obama’s gave untold billions to Pakistan, escalating payments to unchallenged heights to get them to stop the extremists sending fighters into Afghanistan. This failed miserably, as the Pakis realized they could promise America anything and then fail to deliver and still get even more money!
The fact is that in certain regimes, paying off the leaders to achieve foreign policy goals is ineffective. This is most true in nations with more democracy, where paying off dictators is more or less a sure bet.

But you are correct that we should cease aid to these countries since it’s ineffective and they continue to ...

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