"For a body created to end the kind of conflict now raging in Ukraine, the United Nations has done precious little to stigmatize Russia or support its victims. Even in an area where the U.N. excels—words and statements—the organization has embarrassed itself by endorsing the Russian line that the invasion is a “special military operation,” and not a war. But even that bit of Kafkaesque buffoonery is unlikely to deter the Biden administration from its mission to rejoin every United Nations specialized agency and transfer billions in taxpayer dollars to the bureaucrats of Turtle Bay.
Convinced that American influence within international organizations required urgent resuscitation post-Trump, the Biden administration brought the United States back into the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC). And now the administration is seeking to pay nearly a billion dollars in arrears to the U.N. for peacekeeping operations and to rejoin and pay hundreds of millions in arrears to the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). This is nuts..."