UN on Brink of Financial Collapse, Says UN Chief
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UN on Brink of Financial Collapse, Says UN Chief

Could 2026 be the year the United Nations finally ceases to exist?

According to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, the globalist organization is on the brink of “imminent financial collapse.” He said this in a letter he sent this week to 193 UN ambassadors, according to reports.

Financial Collapse?

“The crisis is deepening, threatening programme delivery and risking financial collapse,” Guterres wrote in the letter, dated January 28, “and the situation will deteriorate further in the near future.”

The major reason for the UN’s woes is that member states haven’t paid their dues. At the top of the list is the United States, which reportedly owes $2.2 billion in overdue and current assessments for the UN’s regular operating budget and another $1.8 billion for the UN “peacekeeping” operations budget. While refusing to exit the globalist entity completely, President Donald Trump’s administration has caused it significant harm, not only by withholding dues but by pulling out of several UN-tied organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), UNESCO, and many others.

“We have managed difficult periods of unpaid assessed contributions before,” Guterres said in his letter. “But today’s situation is categorically different. … The current trajectory is untenable.”

The UN chief said the organization ended 2025 with a record $1.5 billion in unpaid dues, double the figure at the end of 2024. The UN’s dilemma is worsened by a budget rule that forces it to give back unspent money. “We are suffering a double blow: on one side, unpaid contributions; and on the other side, an obligation to return funds that were never received in the first place,” Guterres wrote. “In other words, we are trapped in a Kafkaesque cycle; expected to give back cash that does not exist.”

Get US Out!

A complete UN collapse would be a major win for the world and for liberty. The global body came about after World War II and was sold as one that would facilitate peace around the world. The UN has not only failed in its supposed mission, but it has amassed great influence on the internal policies of member states. For example, the WHO exerted significant influence on how nations responded to Covid-19. At the center of Covid tyranny were UN bodies dictating communist-style policies. The UN also plays a major role in the open-border policies eroding Western nations and their cultures.

The UN, in short, was created from the outset to be the central command center of an emerging world government. The parent company of this magazine, The John Birch Society, has been warning about the UN’s true agenda and pushing to get the U.S. out of it since the 1960s. You can learn more about the global body and why America needs to sever all ties with it here.

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Paul Dragu is a senior editor at The New American, award-winning reporter, host of The New American Daily, and writer of Defector: A True Story of Tyranny, Liberty and Purpose.

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