They’d be pretty powerless with a much reduced contribution from the US to the kitty each year...It’s a useless organization that needs to disband PERIOD. The countries left to do their mischief would still find a way to do it without the UN..then countries would have a decision to make, wouldn’t they? Nothing says individual countries can’t go after the ones causing trouble WITHOUT the added complication of UN policy!
Agreed, but the sequence of events needs to be: cut off funding first, and push the UN offshore to some other country. Let it shrivel into irrelevance, and THEN exit on the grounds that it no longer has any purpose. Retain our veto until the UN can no longer cause any significant harm. If we bail out first, the UN will still have a few years of influence before it collapses, and could wreak much havoc without the US participating.
Such an abrupt departure might also prompt some other major power to step in and try to keep it afloat, such as the EU apparatus in Brussels, or Russia, or even some of the Middle Eastern monarchies. Granted that they wouldn’t be able to keep it going for very long, but they might be able to run it long enough to really foul things up, especially for Israel.
The UN has long tried to assert jurisdiction over the non-territorial areas of the ocean. Imagine a UN treaty, agreed to by all remaining members minus the US (or at least the major members), granting Russia exclusive control of the Arctic ocean, and China full authority over the entire South China Sea (and then some). If all the rest of the world more or less agrees to it, how could we gainsay it short of military conflict?