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Throughout 2023 and 2024, one of the major themes that I kept emphasizing was that a major disaster involving a commercial airliner was extremely likely to occur in the near future. There were simply too many close calls in the skies, happening far too often — particularly close to the ground — to come to any other conclusion. Many of these mistakes were the result of failures by air traffic control and the FAA, which openly began discriminating against qualified white applicants during the Obama years. So when 2025 began with a low-altitude, mid-air collision at Washington’s Reagan airport, it wasn’t exactly a surprising development. The signs were all there. Everyone who was paying attention knew that a disaster like this would happen. And then it did. One of the many lessons that we should draw from that mid-air collision is that, when a pending catastrophe seems obvious to you — even if you’re not an “expert” in the field — you should draw attention to it. There’s a very good chance you’re right, and the experts are wrong, particularly if those experts are politically motivated. When I did my monologues on the air traffic control system a couple of years ago, plenty of Leftists mocked me for doing so. They said I had no idea what I was talking about. And now we see how that turned out. So today, we’re going to talk at length about a new threat that poses a significant danger to every American who travels on a plane in this country — up to, and including, the president of the United States. This is a threat that, as far as I can tell, no mainstream news outlet or commentator has mentioned. But it’s urgent. And federal action must be taken immediately. I’m talking about the very uncomfortable, but also very apparent fact that there are quite a few unhinged Leftist air traffic controllers in this country — many of whom have spent the last year or so posting on social media about their plans to sabotage the aviation industry and the United States at large. Several of these individuals are deranged, entitled and, by their own admission, dangerous. And they need to be dealt with. Before we get into the specific examples, I want to briefly go back to the mid-air collision over the Potomac in January. There were many factors that contributed to this disaster, including poor flying by the Black Hawk pilot. But if you ask the White House — and if you listen to the audio transcripts between air traffic control and the two aircraft involved in the incident — it’s clear that air traffic control was not entirely blameless. This is the first significant interaction between the controller and the military helicopter that would later crash into the passenger plane.  Watch: This is a useful instruction. The controller is telling the pilot of the Black Hawk that a CRJ aircraft (the passenger plane) is “just south of the Woodrow Bridge,” and he gives its current altitude and some information about its approach. And the Black Hawk pilot acknowledges the information, saying they’ll steer clear of the CRJ. But the controller doesn’t seem to notice that the Black Hawk, over the next 30 seconds, does not in fact steer clear of the airliner. Instead, the two aircraft are on a collision course. It’s not until an automated alarm sounds in the control tower, warning of an imminent collision, that the controller notices the issue. Listen to what he says, at that moment: This time around, at a critical moment, the controller does not tell the Black Hawk helicopter where the CRJ is, or what its altitude is. He doesn’t say “Avoid the CRJ at 10 o’clock, at your same altitude,” or anything like that. Instead, he simply tells the Black Hawk pilot to avoid “the CRJ.”  And it appears that, in response to that vague instruction, the Black Hawk pilots scanned the skies for a CRJ — and identified the wrong CRJ, in the crowded airspace. They were avoiding the wrong plane. This was obviously a critical mistake — one that the controller shares responsibility for. (Although, to be fair, a small portion of the ATC’s command wasn’t audible in the Black Hawk, because the Black Hawk keyed their radio at the same time.)  After the crash, it emerged that Washington’s Reagan airport normally has a dedicated controller who focuses solely on helicopters. But at this particular moment, one controller was doing double-duty — handling fixed-wing planes, in addition to helicopters. In an interview with federal investigators, the controller stated, “There was one point that I thought about asking for [backup], but it was—as soon as I was thinking about it, you know, I got rid of a few helicopters … So it was a little complex, but it was manageable for me.” I’m beginning with the crash above the Potomac because it illustrates a couple of facts that are very important to keep in mind. First of all, air traffic controllers are apparently capable of an extraordinary degree of self-deception. After all, when you allow two aircraft to fly into one another, by definition, the situation was not “manageable.” But more importantly, the crash illustrates that air traffic controllers have a very important job. Even with all the automation we have, they are a critical line of defense against aviation disasters. Therefore, they should behave professionally, even when they’re off the clock. You shouldn’t have to worry that these people are insane, or sociopathic. You’re paying their salary. You put your life in their hands. And in return, at a minimum, they should demonstrate that they’re not crazy. But many air traffic controllers are instead demonstrating — particularly on Reddit, one of the largest social media platforms in the world — that, alas, they do not clear this very low bar. So let’s back up a second. On Reddit, which is especially popular with Leftists, you’ll find plenty of forums where employees of various organizations — from Panera Bread to Walmart — talk shop about their experiences on the job. And very often, as you might imagine, the posts are extremely negative. People are airing out their grievances, and making all kinds of highly inflammatory statements. Sometimes the posts are threatening, or reveal signs of obvious mental illness. And all things considered, that’s probably fine when you’re talking about the guy who’s making your sandwich, or boxing up your flat-screen TV, or whatever.  But it’s not so fine when you’re talking about someone who has the capacity to kill hundreds, if not thousands, of passengers in a matter of seconds. Air traffic controllers, unlike the delivery guy at Jimmy John’s, can direct two planes to collide, if they want to, or if they aren’t competent enough to avoid doing so. They can order planes to perform unnecessary maneuvers that put passengers in danger. And they can certainly cause all kinds of major inconveniences that cause problems for the millions of people who populate airports and airplanes every day across the country. And if something like that does happen, it can be very difficult to prove that the controller did it on purpose. He has plausible deniability. He can claim he made a “mistake.” This is the power that air traffic controllers have. Therefore, they need to be vetted. And they need to be sane. There can’t be any question about it. And yet, if you look at various subreddits that are frequented by air traffic controllers, you’ll find that we have a very big problem in this regard. There are a slew of posts, all of which are very easy to find, in which air traffic controllers demonstrate that they’re unfit for the job. I’ll give just a few random examples. You can go and find many more yourself. To be clear, most of these posts received support from the community, so we’re not just talking about one or two random trolls. We’re talking about dedicated communities for this profession, where they’re openly talking about committing acts of sabotage on the job. They’re also, in general — at least on these forums — very unhappy people who are extremely bitter about the Trump administration, to a degree that’s pathological. We’ll start with these comments, from the ATC subreddit. These are in response to a post from Donald Trump’s Truth Social account, where Trump used a meme to mock government workers for being lazy. For the record, here’s the meme: Credit: @realDonaldTrump/TruthSocial.com As you can see, it shows SpongeBob with a list of things he “got done last week.” And the list includes “cried about Trump” and “made it into the office for once.” And needless to say, the air traffic controllers didn’t find this meme to be especially amusing. So here’s what they wrote. Credit: Reddit.com Give the private jets a few extra circles before landing. That post has more than 100 upvotes. Then the reply comes: “Air Force 1, go around, fly runway heading.” And then someone replies, “Wouldn’t it be great if the president’s pilot took one for the team.” Someone then replies that, no, it wouldn’t be good if the president’s pilot crashed Air Force One, or if air traffic controllers intentionally gave bad instructions to Air Force One. And that person’s post was downvoted by the community, to the point that it became invisible. So to restate: in response to a meme where Trump implied that air traffic controllers are lazy, the air traffic control subreddit responded by saying that air traffic controllers should give bad instructions to Air Force One. And then, for good measure, the air traffic control subreddit endorsed a post in which someone suggests killing the president while he’s on board. That one comment alone is enough to make the point. I could stop right here. It’s easy enough to say, “hey, it’s the internet, it’s not real life.” But this is real life. A real human being suggested that Air Force one should be crashed intentionally to kill the president, and real human beings reached approvingly to that statement. And those human beings are in air traffic control towers right now, as we speak, directing air traffic. That’s a problem. A big one. And this was not a one-off. This is an entire genre on this subreddit, and related subreddits. Here’s another post, from just three weeks ago. Credit: Reddit.com So could you guys just, like, let Air Force One sit in a 3 hour taxi line? That was posted in response to Trump saying that air traffic controllers should get back to work during the government shutdown. Because Trump dared to suggest that they shouldn’t call out “sick,” they’re threatening retaliation against Air Force One. And here’s one more. This was in response to a post complaining about Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary. Credit: Reddit.com Whenever he flies, just delay his take-offs and landings. Easy peasy. Ask him about the Congress members on vacation right now while he’s in the air. When he answers correctly you allow his plane to land. These are just a few examples of threats directed at the president and members of his Cabinet — all of which were highly upvoted by the air traffic control subreddit, meaning they reflect a common sentiment in the community. But there are many more concerning posts, which suggest that the broader traveling public is also in danger. Here’s one of them. This was posted just a few days ago. Credit; Reddit.com It reads: If a candidate starts talking about healing, or letting [Trump administration officials] go, I’m intentionally voting to KEEP this administration in office to speedrun the whole collapse. … I cannot abide NOT arresting and punishing these corrupt f*** to the maximum extent of the law. I would rather they just destroy everything than see these dorks walk away scot free for the 15th time in a row. … Seeing Leavitt, Noem, Hegseth, all of these people do perp walks? That’s the real healing this country needs. Again, this is a popular post in the online community of air traffic controllers. You have someone who’s clearly out of his mind, talking about “speedrunning the collapse” of the country. He would rather “destroy everything,” in his words, than live in a world where Donald Trump and his Cabinet aren’t sent to prison.  Of course, if this guy had said he voted for Donald Trump, his comment would be downvoted into oblivion, if not censored entirely. But because he’s talking about destroying the United States, he gets the exact opposite response among air traffic controllers. He gets upvotes. And no moderator bans him, or removes the post. This is what they all believe. These are people who shouldn’t be allowed to make a sandwich. But they’re directing planes full of innocent passengers, every day. Before we go into more of these posts, I should clarify why these people claim to be upset. Obviously, they’re deranged and their posts are incoherent, so there’s no logic here. There was no universe in which they’d support Donald Trump, or accept the fact that he’s the president, without frothing at the mouth. But if you ask them, one of their biggest “grievances” is that the Trump administration just gave $10,000 to every controller who didn’t take a single day off during the government shutdown. But in the end, only a few hundred controllers received the bonus, because the vast majority of air traffic controllers took pre-planned leave, or a sick day, or something like that. Now, if these government employees were well-adjusted individuals, instead of extremely unpleasant and entitled lunatics with the emotional maturity of small children, this wouldn’t bother them in the slightest. The handout is a bonus. It’s compensation that they had no reason to expect in the first place. It’s a “thank you” to the rare government employees who managed to go a month — yes, an entire month — without pretending to be sick, or taking vacation. In the government world, that’s an extraordinary achievement — one that’s almost unheard of. But air traffic controllers aren’t willing to let this go. They’re demanding that everyone gets the $10,000 bonus. And on top of that, like angsty teenagers, they’re also vowing to get their revenge on the administration — and on the traveling public. For example, here’s one post about a plan to berate Sean Duffy: Credit: Reddit.com How much trouble would I get in if I saw Duffy on official time, And I told him f*** you we all hate you. This post also has dozens and dozens of upvotes. But the funny thing is, if you read all the replies, everyone is basically saying, “go for it, you won’t suffer any consequences whatsoever.” Here’s one post, to give you an idea: Credit: Reddit.com At [Jacksonville air traffic control], they’ll pick good staffing days to put you on suspension, but then you’ll work overtime and basically get more than your original salary anyways…. One controller got a week on the beach for talking [trash] to pilots while another got a week on the beach for … stealing thousands in [overtime] before caught. We live in a clown world. In other words, you can behave extremely unprofessionally, as a controller, and actually come out ahead of where you were before. You can harass your boss in public, and you’ll suffer no consequences whatsoever. This is the culture among government employees who direct planes for a living. They openly celebrate the most adolescent, inane behavior imaginable. And they do it because they know they’ll get away with it. So they’re taking full advantage of the opportunity. After all, when you have adolescent, inane people in important jobs, they can’t resist punishing innocent people, as a way of satisfying their narcissism. That’s why, at the moment, some of the most popular posts on this subreddit involve threats of walking off the job in January, when the next government funding bill is going to be debated. Here’s one of those posts: “I’m not feeling so well in January.” This was in response to a melodramatic post accusing the Trump administration of a “$10,000 Betrayal.” So here’s a government worker announcing that he’s going to take fraudulent sick days — defrauding the taxpayer and potentially endangering the public — because he didn’t get an extra $10,000 check that he was never entitled to receive in the first place. There are about a thousand posts like this. Here’s another post with nearly 100 upvotes, in which a controller responds to a post by Trump on Truth Social by saying he’s going to take more sick days to infuriate Trump. Credit: Reddit.com “If I knew I was personally in the thoughts of that dipsh** I would have banged more,” meaning, more sick days. Then there’s this very popular post from a couple of weeks ago. It’s in response to the news that an air traffic controller had recently committed suicide. Credit: Reddit.com Between the shut down, snap and firing the feds Trump has killed a lot of Americans. And one of the most popular responses to that post was this:  Trump killed a quarter of a million during COVID too. To put this in context, remember when we learned that FBI agents were texting one another about how to “stop” Donald Trump from winning the 2016 election? They were doing that in private, because they knew it’d be a national scandal if anyone found out about it. And then, indeed, when people did find out, the agents were terminated. Congress held hearings. Ultimately, the FBI was gutted from the top down. That’s what needs to happen to air traffic control in this country. Gut it. Privatize it. Bring in some accountability. Hire people who aren’t deranged. Anything would be an improvement over the current arrangement. And we have to act quickly here. If you look deeper into this forum, you’ll find that, in various posts, certain agitators appear to be encouraging posters to take more drastic action. You guys complaining about pay on reddit but not actually doing anything is like: byu/You_an_idiot_brah inATC   Credit: Reddit.com Here’s one example. There is a difference in staying silent and doing something. The fact you think you — and most people here — are doing something more than commenting and hoping it will change is what is most bothersome. It’s like Paul Revere yelling from the window without the midnight ride. … Look at history, see what actions have actually caused change and there’s your blueprint. I think it’s pretty black and white. Why you guys are trying to reinvent the wheel, I’ll never understand. In a separate post, this same person writes: Credit: Reddit.com The fact that you think a strike is the only way to get what you want just proves that you won’t ever get anything. Then, when someone points out that he’s being conspicuously vague about his proposed “solution,” he responds with this.  Credit: Reddit.com There’s nothing vague about it. Your inability to comprehend the issue and subsequently the solution isn’t because of a lack of clarification on my part. In the context of a subreddit where air traffic controllers are openly planning to berate the Secretary of Transportation, crash Air Force One, and skip work in January, this kind of post is more than a little ominous. And there’s an awful lot of posts like this, on the air traffic control subreddits. It’s reminiscent of the mysterious guy (with ties to foreign intelligence agencies) who kept talking to Thomas Crooks on YouTube, and encouraged him to go to war, before he ultimately shot Donald Trump in the head in Butler. The entire ATC subreddit is a cesspool, but it’s also a cesspool that the federal government needs to start paying attention to. That said, there was one good sign that I came across, in this entire subreddit. One post was moderately reassuring. Credit: Reddit.com It’s a post that suggests the Secret Service is aware of threats that controllers may pose for the president. Here’s what it says:  The one time president Biden came to my airport, a secret service guy showed up 30min-1hr ahead of time and basically monitored you control Air Force One (in this case it was actually marine one) and we sterilized our airspace. So if anything it makes our workload easier so we don’t have to do anything else, except clear them to land and had zero other aircraft to worry about. That’s one level of defense against these people, which is obviously a very necessary precaution. You can put an agent in the tower and make sure they don’t kamikaze a plane into Air Force One. But the Trump administration has to go much, much further. There’s more than enough reason, at this point, to investigate the people posting these threats and deranged statements on the air traffic control forum. Start a federal investigation and subpoena Reddit for the IP addresses of every single one of these posters who’s pledging to commit a crime (including by calling in sick, or targeting Air Force One).  We simply cannot allow government employees to openly plot acts of terrorism, or any federal crime. But that’s the state of air traffic control in this country. And it’s been that way for some time. Two years ago, for example, the New York Times reported that air traffic controllers were routinely showing up to work while drunk or high. One air traffic controller went into work drunk this summer and joked about “making big money buzzed.” Another routinely smoked marijuana during breaks. A third employee threatened violence and then “aggressively pushed” a colleague who was directing airplanes. … In the past two years, air traffic controllers and others have submitted hundreds of complaints to a Federal Aviation Administration hotline describing issues like dangerous staffing shortages, mental health problems and deteriorating buildings, some infested by bugs and black mold. There were at least seven reports of controllers sleeping when they were on duty and five about employees working while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. … In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, there were 503 air traffic control lapses that the F.A.A. preliminarily categorized as “significant,” 65 percent more than in the prior year. And to be clear, most of these controllers weren’t even fired. That’s how low the standards are, and how powerful the union is. You can debate whether or not these controllers are overworked or underpaid. (Privatizing the entire system would address all of these issues, and allow the market to correct for them, but the controllers don’t want that, either.) But really, the question of whether these controllers are overworked isn’t relevant. The most relevant question is whether we’re hiring good people who are mentally competent. And based on what I’ve found, we clearly aren’t doing that. Reddit, as we’ve discussed so many times, is a breeding ground for domestic terrorism. And in this case, the threat couldn’t be any more apparent, or more urgent. When Americans board a plane, they should have some assurance that the person guiding that plane doesn’t hate the country, or want to murder hundreds of people to spite Donald Trump. Sean Duffy, and the Trump administration at large, need to provide that assurance, and they need to do it quickly — before any of these air traffic controllers manage to act out their fantasies, and hurt a lot of innocent Americans in the process.

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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Ukraine is in the news again. There’s been some peace proposals submitted by U.S. President Donald Trump to the international community, apparently. A lot of hysteria, a lot of controversy, whether they were too lax, too strong, too punitive, not punitive enough vis-a-vis Russia. But I thought it would be wise just to review some basic questions, maybe offer a few answers, how we got in this mess in the first place. So, why did Russian President Vladimir Putin invade? Why did he invade Ukraine? Well, he invaded Ukraine because of two reasons. One, there was no deterrence. He had invaded Ossetia in 2008 during the weakened lame-duck Bush administration and Georgia. In 2014, he felt that President Barack Obama, especially after the hot mic exchange in Seoul, South Korea, in 2012, wouldn’t do anything. And he was right. So, he took Crimea and he took the Donbas. And then in 2022, on Feb. 24, he invaded again. Why? Because there was still that lack of deterrence. President Joe Biden said his reaction would depend on whether it was a major or minor invasion. He’d been very weak on hacking. He said, if you’re gonna hack, do not hack particular humanitarian sites. So, Putin, again, correctly thought that the United States and the West in general would not attack. Next question: Why does he keep fighting? This has been going on for four years. We don’t know what the dead, wounded, and missing—that is, the total casualties—are. It could be over 1.5 million. Russia may have lost a million dead and wounded alone. So, why is he doing this? He’s doing this because he feels that there is a magical DMZ line somewhere where the battlefront is today that he has to get beyond. Because if he doesn’t—and every dictator doesn’t have sole power, he has to report to certain constituencies, public opinion. But in Putin’s case, the Russian military and the Russian oligarchic class. And if he says to them, “I lost 1.2, 1.3 million Russians, wounded or dead. I destroyed the reputation of the Russian military, and I crashed the Russian economy. And all I got was 60 or 70 miles westward of where we were before Feb. 24, 2022,” that’s not enough. So, he’s trying to push westward. Most of the peace negotiations and the outlines are clear. We all know what they are. Putin can tell the Russians, his constituencies, “I institutionalized my theft of Crimea and Donbas. I moved westward somewhat. I ensured that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Ukrainians would not be in NATO.” And Zelenskyy is going to say, “I’m a hero. He wanted the whole country. He only got 10% more than he did when he invaded in 2022. We stopped him, and we’re gonna be in the EU. We may not be in NATO, but we stopped him, and he suffered four times the amount of casualties that we did.” So, they each think they can win. And what is the dispute left about? Ukraine’s not gonna be in NATO. Putin knows that. All it is, where is the DMZ? Does Putin get to push areas westward that Ukraine, Ukrainians are currently in and fighting successfully and he can’t dislodge, or not? So, that’s what the dispute is over, and the security guarantees. If Ukraine is not in NATO, how can it defend the next invasion from Russia? Well, it’s the greatest military in Europe right now. It’s battle-hardened. It’s got a huge army. It’s well supplied. Will that continue? Will the EU or NATO continue to arm it? Will the United States back them up in extremis? That’s all. That’s the only two issues: security guarantees and where we draw the DMZ line. Why does NATO or the West not supply Ukraine to win the war? “I mean, give them Tomahawk missiles,” we’re told. “Give them F-16s. Russia’s on the ropes.” And the reason is that Putin engages in nuclear blusters. He has 6,000 nuclear weapons. So, from time to time, a Russian oligarch, a Russian media host, Putin’s inner circle say, “We’re gonna use a nuclear weapon if you do this or that.” And we recoil. No Tomahawks are willing to use a nuclear weapon. Ninety-eight percent of that is bluff. Two percent may not be a nuclear poker. You can’t take those odds. So, that is one reason why we have restricted. The other is the MAGA brand. I mean, there’s a base of Donald Trump’s support that says, “We don’t want forever wars. Don’t get involved. We don’t want advisers. We don’t want anything. We’ve given $170 billion. That’s enough.” There’s realists who say, “We have to think of the geostrategic consequences. We want to play Russia off against China. We don’t want them to join. We want to go back to history, Henry Kissinger’s paradigm. No better friend are we to Russia than we are to China and vice versa.” There’s a lot of people in the United States that may be pro-Putin. They feel, “Wow, you know, he’s Christian, he’s fighting for the West, no DEI, no trans. He’s no more corrupt than Zelenskyy is.” So, I don’t know if that is—there is a more sizable constituency, which says that the borders always change over there. This was all part of the Soviet Union. Ukraine was created in 1939, when Josef Stalin ganged up against the West with Adolf Hitler and got what is now Western Ukraine, which used to be, for a thousand years, Christian, Polish-speaking Poland. And it was ethnically cleansed during World War II, and the Soviets never gave it up, and the postwar agreements gave Poland parts of Pomerania and East Prussia in compensation. As far as the Donbas area, that was an anti-Soviet jurisdictional matter. We’ll let Ukraine be semi-autonomous on this border, so they don’t have a national liberationist front or something. Crimea—it’s been Russian since 1783. So, a lot of Americans say, “We don’t want countries coming in here and discussing our changing borders with Mexico. So, we don’t want to get involved at all.” I think that’s why NATO hasn’t used its full powers to defeat Russia, which it could vis-a-vis this proxy. Why do we support Ukraine? A lot of people say we should support Russia. Well, Ukraine was invaded. Russia wasn’t invaded. Russia was the aggressor. We like to support the underdog and Europe. Ukraine is quasi-European. It’s corrupt, but it’s quasi-European and quasi-Western. Putin is not. Ukraine, if it wins the war, it doesn’t want any more territory. If Putin wins the war, he wants to continue going. And Ukraine also is a very capable ally. We don’t have any friends in the world that are militarily competent—maybe Israel, maybe Ukraine—outside of some NATO country. So, when we see a country that’s defending itself and fighting heroically against enormous odds, like Israel, we tend to feel we should continue to support it. Another question, isn’t this amoral, feeding Verdun, feeding Stalingrad? There’s, you know, are we gonna go all the way to 2 million? The only politician who says it is is Donald Trump. He’s complained that it’s amoral. He’s talked about it in human terms. It is. So, one side has to win and one side has to lose to stop the carnage, if you can’t have a peace. So, what will stop the war? The war will stop if Putin, if we pull out or NATO pulls support from Ukraine, Putin will bury Ukraine and take it all, or it’ll take a large swath. That would end the war. Or, if we continue to give aid to Ukraine and Putin, at some magical point, feels he can’t win, and he’s removed from office or his autocratic successor feels that they can’t win, they might have a negotiation. Or, as I said at the beginning, if Putin feels that he gets a little bit more westward than the current battle line, and they agree on the other terms, which we reviewed, then he’ll probably say, “For now, I got a lot for Russia and we’re beyond where the fighting is now. We’re westward of that.” All in all, it’s a mess, and it’s a reminder that when you lose deterrence, wars follow. If you want peace, the Romans said, prepare for war. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post What Will Finally End the Russia-Ukraine War? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Texas Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson introduced a bill Wednesday which, if signed into law, would move the headquarters of the United Nations out of New York City. “This bill sends a clear message: America is done propping up a city that rejects our values while claiming to represent our nation on the world stage,” Jackson said in a statement to The Daily Signal. “Under President [Donald] Trump, strength and security are back, and when the U.N. gathers in America, they should see a city that reflects that strength, not the chaos and weakness we see in New York today.” In November, New York City elected self-identified Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as its mayor. The bill would direct the Secretary of State to formulate a plan to move the United Nation’s headquarters from New York City, where it has resided since construction was completed in 1952. Specifically, the secretary would seek to negotiate a new headquarters with the United Nations and submit a list of relocation options to the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations Committees. Jackson, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, has represented the Texas panhandle area since 2021. The post Texas Rep. Jackson Introduces Bill to Move UN HQ Out of New York appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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