WHO must cut budget by 20% after US withdrawal.
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It just seems too obvious to me that this is the intentional sabotage by the Trump administration on behalf of at least Russia. None of this makes sense whatsoever. Not even if you're a stock market businessman who doesn't care about allies.
It literally only makes sense in the purview of relative strength gain of Russia; maybe China too.
No one trusts Russia either so Trump has put America in the same pig pen as Russia to wallow in.
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Exactly. $116M is absolutely inconsequential to the budget and by extension the American people. What the WHO produces has a huge impact on all people, including, yup American people. So the American people are only losing here.
Everyone loses. That's the painful part.
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.... Except what a country does or does not do directly impacts the WHOs functions and financial support, so.... Kind of important.
There are many contributors, some substantially more than others, and any of them leaving will have an impact on the efficacy of the WHO.
I wonder how the amount that should be paid is divvied out. Or if it is all just voluntary. I was thinking Europe was quite outsized, so it could be by wealth, but also Japan seems quite large and Russia fairly tiny.
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Giving me news about US "actions"…
You do realize that OPs article is about a US “action”? You’ve now been informed and might be able to take action like voting accordingly, writing to your representatives etc.
Or, as per my initial comment, you could’ve ignored US news and would be none the wiser.
I do not vote representatives based on US policy here in Europe.
I vote them because of what I expect them to do based on a current situation in light of the lessons history gave us.The Tesla protests and torching may be useful now, but if we have nothing to replace those people with, even worse alternatives may come to fill the void.
As a EU citizen, my main focus is to build an alternative, not to protest and counteract a foreign dictator.
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Where did I say we should focus on another country? Why does everything have to be black and white?
There are shades in between ignoring and focusing on you know?
"I can hear the echoes of people saying “why should I care about US politics?”"
I am one of those.
Here on Lemmy there is so much US noise, I even started to downvote some posts and comment who are, in the end, just bitching around about a failed government when the problem I see in the US is actually a failed culture.
This post's original message may be a useful one, but not if you are focusing on what US did and should do, but rather what the rest of us can do in spite of the situation created.
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I wonder how the amount that should be paid is divvied out. Or if it is all just voluntary. I was thinking Europe was quite outsized, so it could be by wealth, but also Japan seems quite large and Russia fairly tiny.
They explain on their site here.
There is membership/assessed, which goes by each member country's wealth. There are also voluntary contributions, which comes in a few forms - core, which have no specific requirement on use, strategic donations which have general goals and can be applied to anything in that field/theme, and specified, which go to specific projects or efforts.
There is also a budget portal which details how money is spent.
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Yeah I'm kind of surprised and in a way reassured.
Whatever the US contribution of $100m was doing it wasn't fending off the next pandemic.
I live in a very small city in nowhere Australia and we just spent $100m on a highway upgrade.
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Oh no, when Trump hears that he's going to threaten to tarrif the US until they carry their weight, right? /s
He's taken the alternative approach. Cutting their GDP by 20%.
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USA created a problem
Which other countries can also create if contributions are altered.
Being aware of the how and why of national politics impacting international politics is a good thing. Suggesting otherwise is just putting blinders on.
I am suggesting being aware of the problems, of the functions of the institutions and to do something.
Other countries could also work to make WHO even better despite the absence of the USA (or thanks to it).The WHO also has a lot of its budget tied to Melinda and Bill, two American billionaires, 390$B in 2022, so much more than the US as a whole and that is a much bigger problem, if you ask me.
Do we really want global health functioning on this basis, or should we use the shock to rediscuss the assumptions?
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He's taken the alternative approach. Cutting their GDP by 20%.
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