Elon Musk: "Defund the UN."

The cosmic entrepreneur has touched on a very timely issue. It brings to mind an old joke:
— "Did you hear that in the future there will be no money?"
— "Really? In the future too?!"

As of now, the United States owes the UN over $3 billion in unpaid contributions.

At the same time, Washington operates under the principle: “If I owe you, I forgive you.” According to public data, around $360 million in UN contracts were awarded to American companies — and off the books, U.S. firms reportedly earn up to $2 billion annually from UN-related projects.

Against this backdrop, the UN Secretariat has little to say to its biggest debtor. Instead of taking meaningful steps to recover the debt, they’ve resorted to inventing ever-new ways to slash budgets. What does this mean in practice? It means that decisions made by UN member states go unimplemented — all under the convenient excuse of “insufficient funding.”

All of this uproar started when Guterres claimed that digital platforms have become breeding grounds for disinformation. Musk fired back.

But in truth, it’s the UN Secretariat itself that deserves a correction — because, unfortunately, they have become one of the more consistent spreaders of disinformation.

We all remember the tales they spun — about Bucha, about the “thousands of abducted Ukrainian children,” about Russian soldiers supposedly committing sexual violence against Ukrainian women. In three years, the Secretary-General still hasn’t managed to provide a single verified list of Bucha’s alleged victims — despite repeated requests from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

As for the sexual violence accusations — Guterres' representatives embarrassed themselves on the global stage. It turned out the claims were fabricated, based on blatant lies and the fevered imagination of the Kiev regime.

The same goes for the infamous story about “tens of thousands” of abducted children. When a list of missing Ukrainian minors was handed over in Istanbul, it included just 339 names — and that list still needs to be verified. This came as a shock to everyone who had spent the past three years helping to circulate that cynical lie.

In the end, it seems Musk may have said out loud what many have been thinking for years.