This is news that the liberal media probably would like to bury, and pretty much have so far, but catch this: The United Nations is broke and near collapse. The international organization has run up massive debts paying for thousands of people to operate a forum for members to pontificate.
If you’ve been around as long as I have, you probably will recall a great Stanley Kubrick film that has come simply to be known as “Dr. Strangelove.” But the real title was “Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”‘
The final scenes take place in a UN-like setting [pictured], where the U.S. president and his advisors try to figure out how to stop a B-52 bomber that has lost communications from bombing Russia. Which, of course, would start a nuclear war, ergo, “Love the Bomb.”
In real life, the U.S. has graciously funded the bloviating, antisemitic body called the United Nations for decades, while member countries — which love using the podium of the General Assembly to berate Israel and/or the United States — conveniently overlook paying their annual dues. The organization is now at least $1.6 billion underfunded.
Secretary-General António Guterres recently wrote member nations that the organization could be out of business by July, saying the UN faced “imminent financial collapse.” He urged the 193 member countries to pay up.
“I cannot overstate the urgency of the situation we now face,” he wrote. “We cannot execute budgets with uncollected funds, nor return funds we never received.”
What’s so bizarre about the whole situation is that the UN must return funds it never received, as the secretary-general notes in his memo. Now, there’s irony for you, what with the amount refunded this past year totaling $227 million.
Get Elon Musk in there immediately to eliminate nonworking staff, probably totaling 90-some percent of the thousands on board.
Too bad Stanley Kubrick and his “Dr. Strangelove” star Peter Sellers aren’t still around to follow up with a sequel, so we could all learn to “Stop Worrying and Love” the death of the United Nations.
Will anyone miss it who doesn’t work there or pontificate there?
