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Trump withdraws the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council (www.npr.org)
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The president's executive order also cuts future funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which provides aid to Palestinians.

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[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 2 months ago

This is what Democrat vs. Republican boils down to:

Manners vs. no manners for the world hegemon. Do we get everything we want by saying please and thank you while we have a menacing club in our hand? Or do we just smash them with the club and take what we want.