https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/04/trump_puts_u_s_sovereignty_first.html
By H. Sterling Burnett
In his 1796 Farewell Address, President George Washington advised the United States to avoid permanent alliances and “foreign entanglements,” urging the nation to prioritize its own interests, maintain neutrality, and foster trade without political ties. He admonished those who would follow him in office to “steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world.”
Some of these agreements have likely advanced U.S. interests, but there is no question that each and every one of them has compromised U.S. sovereignty to some degree or another, legally limiting our nation’s course of action and domestic and geopolitical autonomy.
To relatively little fanfare, when one considers the economic, political, and geopolitical implications, Trump withdrew the United States from 66 international organizations, agreements, and/or treaties covering a vast array of public policies.
- The Carbon-Free Energy Compact
- Education Cannot Wait
- The Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories
- The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund
- The Global Forum on Migration and Development
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property
- The International Cotton Advisory Committee
- The International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies
- The Pan American Institute of Geography and History
- The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe
- The United Nations (UN) Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- The U.N. Permanent Forum on People of African Descent
- The UN Alliance of Civilization
- The UN Human Settlements Programme
- The UN Institute for Training and Research
- The UN Population Fund
- The UN Register of Conventional Arms
- The UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination
- The UN System Staff College;
- The UN University.
Many of these organizations and treaties promote unnecessary and dangerous restrictions on fossil fuel use, others promote population control, while others promote social justice agendas that many in the U.S. and the present administration reject.
