Re: It's official - Russian enter Crimea
I get what you're saying and it's a valid point, particularly if done in a huff and unilaterally. Also valid, though, is that the UN would have a difficult time enforcing anything if the US weren't ponying up over 20% of the financial costs. If the US along with Japan and even a third of the NATO countries were backed into a corner enough to choose leaving, the whole organization would fall like house of cards. If brinkmanship is your game, the threat of American/Western secession needs to be viable.
I believe that, if the US gave up its veto by leaving the UN entirely, you would suddenly find the organization to be reinvigorated. Lots of people around the world would suddenly care very deeply what the UN was doing and could do.
And, there are traitors on the United States Supreme Court who say that widespread international custom amounts to a treaty, and treaties trump the Constitution, therefor, we must do whatever the "international community says we have to do." Thus, if the UN Gen Assembly agreed that every country would cut their carbon emissions in half (or adopt sharia law, or ban the color crimson or whatever silly idea the "international community" chose), there are Quislings in the US who would go along because that would be international law, and the US would
have to go along, member or not.
