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When the WHO Wouldn’t Return the Flag, Trump and Rubio Sent the Marines

David Manney

Respect is nothing more than an abstraction until somebody refuses to show it; that’s when symbols clarify moments.

Flags matter because they represent authority, sacrifice, and ownership. The World Health Organization (WHO) crossed that line when it decided to keep the United States’ flag after President Donald Trump withdrew from the organization. That decision led to a rare action on the world’s political stage: Somebody acted.

President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the WHO because of decades of mismanagement, compliance with hostile governments, and repeated failures during global health scares. There are consequences resulting from the withdrawal: legal, diplomatic, and symbolic. At the WHO’s headquarters, our flag was displayed; ownership never changed when we ended our membership, and when the organization refused to return it, then it became a straightforward matter.

Last year, President Trump withdrew the United States from the corrupt globalist institution, the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO said we owed them more than $100 million. This is after they lied about the pandemic at the request of the Chinese Communist Party. President Trump made it clear that they owed us for what they did during the pandemic.

Since the WHO claimed it did not approve the U.S. withdrawal from the agency, it said the U.S. remains a member and that the U.S. can’t have its flag back. President Trump said in no uncertain terms, ” We will take our flag back.

Property, Symbols, and National Authority
Ownership is something every society that fogs a mirror recognizes; nations don’t abandon property when they exit agreements, while flags sit in a separate category.

A national flag represents sovereignty, military service, and the authority of a people governed by legitimate law. When an organization holds another country’s flag without consent, the situation crosses over into provocation, an action sending a message, intended or not.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed the situation with clarity, as diplomatic notes had run dry and polite requests met resistance.

A dispute over an American flag has become symbolic of the bitter public dispute between the U.S. and the World Health Organization (WHO) after the U.S. withdrew from the organization on 22 January.

In a joint statement by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr on the termination of U.S. membership in the WHO, they accused the organization of keeping the American flag that hung outside its Geneva headquarters captive.

“Even on our way out of the organization, the WHO tarnished and trashed everything that America has done for it. The WHO refuses to hand over the American flag that hung in front of it, arguing it has not approved our withdrawal and, in fact, claims that we owe it compensation. From our days as its primary founder, primary financial backer, and primary champion until now, our final day, the insults to America continue.

That’s the point where Rubio authorized the United States Marines to retrieve American property.

PJ Media

WHO headquarters is in Geneva because of course it is, so I’m sure our Marines were not under arms when they arrived to retrieve our flag. Yet retrieve it they did. Professionally and politely, it is reported. Which brings to mind General Mattis’ “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”

They weren’t coming back without that flag, Meanwhile WHO maintains the US still owes it some 260 million dollars. Send us a bill.

Reminds me of a song…

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