I wonder why so much of the US right wing screams bloody murder about the United Nations' supposed invasion of American sovereignty, The UN is little more than a toothless tiger (except when Washington is able to bully it to the US administration's own ends). At the end of the day, the US follows the UN when it wants to and ignores it when it wants to. The UN can't do anything about it.
The World Trade Organization, on the other the hand, truly is an infringement of national sovereignty. If the US ignores WTO rulings, it is punished with trade sanctions. Yet the WTO barely gets mentioned by the right.
The WTO is even more secretive and unaccountable than the UN but has actual power.
I wonder why the right choose easy, powerless targets rather than real ones.
Or is it more about cheap, diversionary symbolism than substance?
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