Eesh... some of the comments here, are in the same boat:
Lies so big not even their inverse are true.
this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2025
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I dunno, I can't get quite as outraged over indirect deaths caused by essentially pulling back on charity to foreigners. It's about one step off from accusing western nations of being responsible for all the deaths in North Korea, just cause the west didn't directly intervene.
The general population of the USA is not that concerned with foreigners / international politics and issues. If the politics of the states is meant to reflect the will of the people, them opting to refocus their funding / efforts to domestic areas isn't that surprising or off brand.
Yes, other people, especially the prior beneficiaries of that charity, will view it as 'wrong'. But they're hardly an unbiased stakeholder. Like yes, this likely diminishes the USA's soft power globally... but the states doesn't really care about that anymore anyhow. Having a 'land' buffer zone between them and other geopolitical powers was beneficial in yester-years war dynamic. Now it may be much less important for them to maintain -- especially if the rest of those countries are so neutered that they can't realistically defend their own sovereignty, be it militarily, culturally, or otherwise.
Is it like paying the exit fee from subscription proprietary software?
How many were they killing as the subscription fee?