From LifeSiteNews

By Doug Mainwaring

According to Trump administration officials, the US president believes ‘the United Nations should refocus on its ‘founding purpose’ of preserving international peace and security.’

A Trump administration official informed the United Nations that the U.S. rejects the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

In a speech to the UN General Assembly, minister-counselor Edward Heartney of the U.S. mission to the UN said that its 2030 Agenda is “a program of soft global governance that is inconsistent with U.S. sovereignty and adverse to the rights and interests of Americans,” according to an Associated Press (AP) report.

Agenda 2030 has been touted as a “global partnership” and “shared blueprint for peace and prosperity” with 17 “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries.”

The authors of the plan claim that “ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth,” emphasizing that this be done “while tackling climate change.”

Agenda 2030 was adopted by the UN in September 2015. Three months later, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (PACC) was ratified. Both ambitious projects were welcomed by the Obama administration. President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from participation in the PACC early in his first term in the White House.

On Day One of his second term, Trump directed the U.S. Ambassador to the UN to:

• Immediately submit written formal notification to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, or any relevant party, of the United States’ withdrawal from any agreement, pact, accord, or similar commitment made under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
• Immediately cease or revoke any purported financial commitment made by the United States under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

His order also declared that the “U.S. International Climate Finance Plan is revoked and rescinded immediately. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall, within 10 days of this order, issue guidance for the rescission of all frozen funds.”

“In recent years, the United States has purported to join international agreements and initiatives that do not reflect our country’s values or our contributions to the pursuit of economic and environmental objectives,” the President wrote. “Moreover, these agreements steer American taxpayer dollars to countries that do not require, or merit, financial assistance in the interests of the American people.”

“Members of the Trump administration have said that U.S. President Donald Trump believes the United Nations should refocus on its ‘founding purpose’ of preserving international peace and security,” explained Richard Gowan, writing at Foreign Policy. The administration has announced “a full review of all U.S. multilateral commitments and treaties, which include the U.N. Charter. But Washington has offered little detail about what Trump’s vision of a peace-focused U.N. would look like.”

According to a separate AP report, Trump administration freezes on U.S. foreign aid have led many UN agencies to cut staff, budgets, and services.

From LifeSiteNews

By Stephen Kokx

“You don’t have shared values if you cancel elections because you don’t like the result, and that happened in Romania”

The primary characteristic of a democratic society is that the people get to decide who their political leaders are.

Many institutions claim to defend democracy: the mainstream media, the Democratic Party, and the European Union among them.

A blatantly anti-democratic turn of events has transpired in the country of Romania these past few months, but hardly any Western institutions have complained about it. In fact, the EU just voted to not even debate the issue.

Last year, Călin Georgescu received 23% of the vote in Romania’s presidential race, the most of any candidate. This year, he was prohibited by his country’s elections bureau from seeking that office again.

What happened was the Constitutional Court of Romania annulled the results on grounds that it was not a fair election. Russia promoted pro-Georgescu ads on social media, it said. This was enough to deem it illegitimate.

U.S. President JD Vance did not fail to notice the absurdity of that claim.

While speaking in Germany last month, Vance excoriated the court’s decision.

“If your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn’t very strong to begin with,” Vance said to Europe’s censorious elite.

Vance reiterated his disgust while speaking at CPAC in Washington, D.C. last month.

“You don’t have shared values if you cancel elections because you don’t like the result, and that happened in Romania,” he said.

The real reason Georgescu’s election could not go forward was because he has the wrong views. He is a strong supporter for peace in Ukraine, he supports traditional values, he wants to put his country’s interests before NATOs, and he opposed the COVID-19 agenda, among other praiseworthy positions.

In late February, Georgescu was detained by police for “incitement to actions against the constitutional order” and was given a 60-day ban on media appearances.

Nationalist politicians in Europe have drawn attention to this tyrannical behavior.

“If Romanian people choose Georgescu, why do we interfere? And why do we stop it? This has nothing to do with democracy,” Alliance for Deutschland’s Christine Anderson told the European Parliament.

Slovakia President Robert Fico likewise called out the hypocrisy.

“The European Commission must take a position on the presidential elections in Romania. And take responsibility for it,” he said.

Both pleas fell on deaf ears. Globalists aligned with Ursula von der Leyen, the warmonger president of the EU, rejected a motion to debate the issue. They claimed that they could not let “friends of Russia” determine “the rule of law” in Romania.

Trump administration officials have refused to be silent.

Kari Lake, the newly installed head of Voice of America, said on X that attacks on patriots have been happening across the world and that Georgescu is simply their latest target.

“Do you love your country & want to put it first? Then the Globalists want you removed from the ballot and silenced. They tried it with Trump here in America. They did it to Bolsonaro in Brazil. Now, they’re doing it to Georgescu in Romania. The people should dictate their country’s future. Not the international order and their captured courts.”

Elon Musk drew attention to the protests unfolding in Romania as well.

“How can a judge end democracy in Romania?” he wondered.

Social media user Clint Russell summarized the timeline of events better than most.

“Quick primer on Romania: right winger wins election, election gets canceled by EU, new election process begins, EU bans him from running, NATO base is being built to wage war on Russia, Romanians don’t want it, the EU/NATO demons don’t care. Then they lecture you about democracy.”

While Georgescu’s political future is on hold for now, with the conflict in neighboring Ukraine seemingly nearing its end, the long-term viability of globalist politicians in Europe will be put at risk. They cannot maintain power forever. One can only hope U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will negotiate a lasting peace that brings not only the war to an end but also an end to the political careers of those who have usurped the will of the Romanian people.