{"id":2601,"date":"2026-02-12T12:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/2601\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:05:08","slug":"us-ambassador-to-the-un-shows-off-his-troops-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/2601\/","title":{"rendered":"US ambassador to the UN shows off his troops in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz, has published a video on social media showing him doing push-ups alongside American troops in Geneva. <\/p>\n<p>In the video description, he wrote &#8220;Ready for duty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, he stated that the US will continue to pressure the United Nations for reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Waltz also reiterated that an advance payment from Washington to the global organization would come within weeks.<\/p>\n<p>It is known that the US is the largest contributor to the UN budget, but under the administration of President Donald Trump, they have refused to make mandatory payments to the UN&#8217;s regular and peacekeeping budgets, and have cut voluntary funds to the agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Waltz, speaking in Geneva, did not give details on how much the UN will receive, but said the US will pay its dues while pressuring the organisation for reforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">Waltz is on a two-day visit to Geneva to meet with officials from a number of UN agencies, including the refugee agency, UNHCR, which is facing the most severe budget cuts in its history.telegraph\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz, has published a video on social media showing him doing push-ups&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[65,2704,1700,533],"class_list":{"0":"post-2601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-geneva","9":"tag-mike-waltz","10":"tag-un","11":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}