The World Trade Organisation? The tip of the spear in the conspiracy to steal US jobs. The World Health Organisation? A pawn in a sinister game by a former Microsoft executive to track the general public via microchips injected under the pretext of a ‘vaccine’. Why not just track people using mobile phones like everyone else?
The WHO quickly became a punching bag in the US-China breakdown. And US President Trump tried to put sticks into the wheels of the WTO, blocking the election of Nigeria’s talented former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as director-general. Trump also tried to block the re-election of Akinwumi Adesina as head of the African Development Bank.
Trump legitimated the more wild-eyed theories about multilateral institutions – run by ‘globalists’ in the lingo of Trumpworld. In the ‘America First’ vision of former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, the ‘globalists’ are a
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