Here to break everything
Trump didn’t say a word about George Floyd at his “press conference” (the one at which he took no questions) today, but he did say he was yanking the US out of the WHO.
US President Donald Trump has announced that he is terminating the country’s relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO). The president has accused the WHO of failing to hold Beijing to account over the coronavirus pandemic. “China has total control over the World Health Organization,” the president said while announcing measures aimed at punishing Beijing.
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More than 102,000 people in the US have lost their lives to Covid-19 – by far the biggest death toll in the world.
And that’s…the WHO’s fault.
As I understand it, WHO is an organization with a few flaws, one of which is that it is in fact dominated by the Chinese. (I recently saw an embarrassing interview in which the head of WHO shamelessly evaded a Taiwanese journalist’s question because he was afraid of offending China by acknowledging that Taiwan has its own government.)
So you could have a legitimate argument over whether it’s better to stay inside WHO and try to improve it, or leave and start a new organization from the ground up.
But (1) the middle of a pandemic is the wrong time to undertake such a drastic step; (2) there’s no indication that there’s any new international cooperative effort planned; and (3) Trump would be the wrong person to lead such an effort. What other countries are likely to follow the U.S. out of WHO and into something new? Under Trump, America is a country that scapegoats foreigners, doesn’t take international cooperation seriously, reneges on its treaty and other obligations, and is led by incompetents who prefer yes-men to actual experts.
And it would be, as you say, a legitimate argument – conducted by adults, for comprehensible reasons. It wouldn’t be a pie-throwing exercise.