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Trump's USAID funding cuts estimated to have caused over 130,000 deaths, averaging 103 deaths per hour (www.bu.edu)

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[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

But let's pretend for a moment that they're right. Is building political capital in developing nations by helping feed their people, provide medicine, and develop their cities a bad thing?

Like dollar per dollar you get a country with a positive view of your nation for very little cost. Even if we wanted to ignore the obvious moral imperatives and just the general goodness of feeding the hungry, it's good foreign policy

Even when the right makes up a boogieman they're still wrong

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that's what blows my mind about this. From a purely business greed perspective, cutting all the USAID food and medical is a dumb move that reduces your power.

Al Capone was famous for his charity.

I was also amazed when they shut down Voice of America. That's the main open propaganda arm of the US military and the Federal government targeted largely at foreign citizens. It was priceless in influencing foreign populations.

is it really Russian influence or are they truly that fucking stupid? I can't decide.