The Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed cutting its budget by a fifth. This comes after its largest contributor, the US, decided to withdraw. The organisation must now reduce its tasks and staff, it said.

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    I’m afraid of what the result will be in the global opinion when America’s soft power diminishes.

    If the only existing side remaining is that of a bully, then that’s what everyone will see.

    Isolation is the only result of this.

    The free wolrd will have to take steps towards a new balance with the absence of the USA

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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.

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        No one trusts Russia either so Trump has put America in the same pig pen as Russia to wallow in.

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      Probably fewer countries excusing the hard power they use?

      Just because they occasionally kiss their victims doesn’t make what they do to them first any better. It never has. But if the world’s bully finally stops providing any good then maybe we can move on as a species.