Yes, the real problem is that someone else might stop people from starving.
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2025
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China wins by default even if they do nothing. The US continues to hurt itself in its confusion.
What a stupid article: of course this will happen. It should have been immediately obvious. It already was happening as we were already so miserly.
If they were actually concerned about Chinas influence, a better approach would be doubling down, or tripling, or more. Instead of spending untold billions on the next aircraft carrier, we’d do more for peace and security by investing that in the development of underprivileged friends abroad
It's already happening, americans voted for this so the whole 'x could happen under trump' rhetoric is pointless.
This is why we need USAID. I know what the GOP thinks, that we have all this money and we’re just sending it off to other countries. But that money was doing a few things for us, it was stopping underdeveloped countries in developing into a state of Terrorism, and it was providing peaceful, democratic countries that would buy our exports.
Imagine, just for a moment, that the fall of the Soviet Union occurred, and the only person around willing to send medical supplies, food packets, money, cloths, and retail products to Eastern block states is China…the influence a country would have over an entire region would be enormous. Same thing with Africa, and the Middle East. How horrible would it have been to have all of the Middle East in the hands of a global/economic competitor.
We need a US diplomatic and functional presence overseas.
I would call for the GOP to reinstate the USAID office and its workers ASAP…but those bitch-ass m’fuckers ain’t never gonna read this.
That is literally the only reason to do what they did. We have an entire federal government of fifth columnists and their (perhaps too charitably) unwitting abettors.
"Lawmakers" are alarmed, are they ABCnews?
FFS. Hey -don't go out of your way to call anything like it is, okay? okay.