“The US Ambassador to the UN” is a completely useless, ridiculous position that has no relevance to anything. Like the UN itself.
I can’t believe how actively this non-issue is being discussed on the news and the blogs.
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Hey Clarissa,
Thanks for your blog. Just wanted to say hi. And to rant. I am originally from Moscow, came here in 1992. I was only 16 then. Those were the rough times for former Soviet Union countries so it felt good to have landed here. I always felt like I was going to live in a free country forever. After this election it doesn’t feel that way anymore.
Trump scares the heck out of me. Everyone is already bitching and complaining just like they did back in Russia but no amount of angst from the media seems to be enough to make any difference. He just goes on. Democrats are a minority in congress so other than filibustering, how do you deal with him? He is not even in the office yet so naturally the worst is yet to come. Do you have any optimism left?
Sorry I sound so bummed.
🙂 Женя
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Zhenia, my favorite name. 😃 Welcome to the blog! And we are the same age, too.
You are right, this is terribly disappointing. Americans have messed this up badly. But I always have a lot of optimism. And I’m sure this will not be the end of us, just a bad hiatus.
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Once upon a time, US ambassadors to the UN were important – Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Daniel Moynihan, George H.W. Bush. Those were the days when we thought, in our childish way, that the UN was a force for good. Alas, the UN has become worse than unimportant these days, it’s become a menace. For that reason, it’s important to have someone there who can mitigate the harm the UN can cause to the US and its allies and friends.
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Absolutely true. The UN has become outright dangerous.
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Ah, Yevgeniya, you take current events in America and the UN much too seriously. I can’t speak for Russian politics, but from here in the U.S., the UN’s recent nonsensical spin always tips leftward, falling on its side and whirling harmlessly, until some diplomat eventually sets it upright.
I remember “Jeanne Kirkpatrick and Daniel Moynihan,” heroes in a time when the U.S. faced a rational, existential enemy called the USSR. and had to give an adult response. Now the U.S.in the UN is facing third-world clowns like Putin and Iran and North Korea, none of whom would dare to start a nuclear fight with us.
So who cares who the US ambassador is? We’ve recently had a smart-mouth, pretty woman named Samantha Power that nobody paid any attention to, despite all her wise words, because that everybody knew her that paper tiger boss Obama would never back her up.
So why not another smart-mouth, pretty woman named Nikki Halley — who’s also a minority (somehow “a person of color,” although she’s a white as Hillary and me) — and whose threatening words just might carry the threat of an unpredictable Donald trump with his finger on the nuclear trigger.
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UN is called a democratic assembly, but the majority of the member states are no democracies. Their decisions are democratic in the same way that Hitler’s pacts with Mussolini, later Stalin, and later Japan, were “democratic”.
UN has stopped zero wars.
Before the WW2 it was called the League of Nations, and the LN stopped Japan’s wars with China and Korea – NOT, it stopped Italy’s war with Ethiopia – NOT, it stopped the Spanish civil war – NOT, it stopped Hitler’s breaches of the Versailles treatises – NOT, his aggressions against Czechoslovakia – NOT, and so on and on.
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