Brett D. Schaefer
@BrettDSchaefer
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Senior Fellow @AEI. Views expressed are my own.
Joined June 2015
Useful clarification by @USUN: the US will not expend resources engaging on 3rd Committee resolutions that do not sufficiently align with the UN’s original scope and purpose or veer unnecessarily into politicized debates.
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The United States was a driving force behind the UN’s creation and remains its largest contributor. But we’ve never believed that multilateral organizations are an end in and of themselves. They must...
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The @WSJ is correct: "The Hague has no business exercising jurisdiction over U.S. leaders or troops... The way to change this is to sanction the institution as a whole." https://t.co/gbuVliaCDx
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Unless the ICC faces more serious consequences, it could target Trump after 2028.
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This is modern conservatism's William Buckley moment, with the great excommunication of the John Birch Society in 1962. Kudos to @benshapiro.
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We regret that OCHA chooses time and again, to repeat false narratives. There is a clear gap between it's public statements and what OCHA's own people sitting with us daily at the CMCC know. Here are the facts: 📍600–800 aid trucks enter Gaza every day, around 70% carrying
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State Department now calls UNRWA “a Hamas subsidiary that was complicit in the atrocities of October 7” in official statement.
SCOOP: Trump administration officials have held advanced discussions on hitting U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA with terrorism-related sanctions, people familiar with the matter told @G_Slattery and me
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The United States just voted NO on a one-sided, biased, and irrelevant resolution on the ICJ advisory opinion—ignoring the ceasefire in Gaza, increase in aid delivery, and President Trump’s historic leadership for peace. We reject politicized attacks on Israel and will keep
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🚨 The Guardian: The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, claims that the British government threatened to stop funding the court and withdraw from the Rome Statute if the court proceeds with its intention to issue an arrest warrant against Prime
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🚨 Turkey's Ministry of Defense: We continue to discuss with the US the F-35 aircraft deal, but there is no change regarding our maintenance of the Russian S-400 air defense battery
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WSJ: Docs from 2018 to 2022 detail how Hamas manipulates int'l human-rights and aid groups to serve its ends. Pressure from Qatar, Turkey and Egypt to cooperate with Hamas and re-establish the same NGO system. "This would be nation-building—for Hamas."
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The terrorists would love to ‘cooperate’ with NGOs as if nothing changed.
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.@TuckerCarlson If you love America, why in the world are you celebrating a radical left U.N. hater of America? As we've documented, Francesca Albanese attacks America for “apartheid” and being “a nation founded upon genocide.” ▶️ https://t.co/FW5hrgVdoA She says the U.S. was
Why are we defending mass murder in Gaza? Because our Greatest Ally demands it. It’s time to rethink that relationship.
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What does a budget impasse from the '90s tell us about today's UN financial crisis? Join a virtual event on Dec 16, 9:30-10:45am ET with veterans of Helms-Biden to explore paths forward: Robert Orr, @MarkLagon, @SuzanneNossel, @BrettDSchaefer Join here: https://t.co/xDljQBphpa
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Devex reports that the US and EU are pressing the UN to reduce UN salaries and grants up to $30,000 for children of UN staff attending American universities. Long overdue as explained here: https://t.co/ABdcnuxeqR.
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The United Nations is in financial crisis. The cause is multi-faceted. One factor is the extraordinary growth of the UN regular budget -- from $1.998 billion in 2005 to $3.729 billion in 2025, 87...
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UN voting shift: for the first time ever, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Czechia, Bulgaria & Latvia withheld support for renewing UNRWA's mandate. See 2022 vs. 2025 votes. We had presented evidence of UNRWA terror ties before the German and Italian Parliaments: https://t.co/JzOkebQ7sg
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It’s frankly unfortunate and disappointing to see the President of the UN General Assembly parroting long-standing talking points from regimes like North Korea and Iran.
LIVE: UNGA now inaugurating its first “International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures,” where world's worst regimes condemn the West for sanctioning them. 🎥 https://t.co/t1edWvoNbF My op-ed urging democracies to confront unapologetically this hijacking of human rights:
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The International Criminal Court is not synonymous with the principles of international law. It is a flawed, politicized organization that seeks to impose its judgments on states that have explicitly declined to accept its jurisdiction.
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The race for the next United Nations Secretary General officially kicked off on November 25 when the Presidents of the General Assembly and the Security Council issued a joint letter defining the process. So, what is the process?
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The race for the next United Nations Secretary General officially kicked off on November 25 when the Presidents of the General Assembly and the Security Council issued a joint letter defining the...
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Not a single aid group was "permitted to provide services or operate projects in Gaza without Hamas's approval and maintaining an ongoing line of coordination with the abovementioned Hamas ministries."
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Hamas was the puppeteer, NGO and the UN were the puppets: To operate in Gaza, Hamas required that its loyalists hold senior administrative positions in aid groups. The arrangement ensured Hamas had access to the highest levels of NGO operations.
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Hamas operatives infiltrated dozens of U.N.-affiliated aid groups in Gaza between 2018 and 2022, embedding personnel into senior positions to direct humanitarian operations on the ground and ensure...
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U.S. Blasts ICC At UN Debate 🇺🇸 @USAmbUNReform: “I must reiterate our ongoing grave concerns with the ICC's attempts to assert jurisdiction over the United States or any U.S. ally that has not consented to the ICC jurisdiction. The United States unequivocally opposes such
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