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Deaths predicted amid the chaos of Elon Musk’s shutdown of USAid
(www.theguardian.com)
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Tell that to the poor sods who depend on it to make their lives less shit.
The Guardian is part of the imperial media ecosystem and you should be very skeptical of any story they publish. Of course they were going to mourn the loss of one of the empire's greatest tools and try to spin some sad tale about the maybe 1% of the USAID's budget that was going to legitimate aid as a cover for the nefarious shit they did with the other 99%. You shouldn't fall for this kind of transparent emotional manipulation. At best what this was, was blackmail: "Let us continue to destabilize governments and meddle in the affairs of other countries, else we cut off aid to people in need."
Nice.
I'll repeat what I said: tell that to the poor sods who depend on it to make their lives less shit.
What you're saying essentially is: for the sake of stopping the US meddling with other people's affairs, let's cut everybody off the support USAID provides: it will sting a little for them but the world will be better off.
Well, maybe. But if that's what we want to do, how about we ramp it down slowly so those who depend on it have time to find alternative ways of not dying? How about not letting Musk and Trump abruptly stop all assistance without warning?
And this has nothing to do with the Guardian: when you shut down USAID all of the sudden, people get hurt. That's just a plain fact.
Or are you saying nobody benefits from USAID?
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.
US foreign aid is like the former, with the additional element that it actively prevents anyone from teaching themselves how to fish.
Now with USAID gone and BRICS offering a real alternative to the Bretton Woods institutions, resource rich and overexploited countries have a real chance of teaching themselves how to fish and become sovereign.