Seems irrelevant for the conversation? Trump mass firing attorneys in the DOJ until they agree to perjure themselves to dismiss charges against a corrupt mayor of the largest city isn't really foreign policy, yah know?
I know it’s a super challenging concept for folks, but…two things can be true at the same time. 🤯
USAID was helping some people, AND the US government actively harms people around the world with violence designed to maximize capital at the expense of the environment and human lives.
Helping people around the world helped us shut down epidemics, strengthen weaker countries to stop take over by hostile to US countries, lessened US hate /terror targeting. Famine in far away places does create risk for us beyond being the humanitarian thing to do…
But you think Russia and China are paragons of virtue, right? And the violence they drive in Africa, Central/South America, and the Middle East is totally justified, right?
The actual good it does should have continued, or at the least had a reasonable tapering off period, but USAID, along with NED, can burn to the ground.
USAID packages were often coming with "strings attached" like "You need to have a despot we selected, in order to get this aid" or "You cannot ask anyone for help for anything, but the US"...
Regime change can be a good thing. Had Obama had the will to change Assad's regime in Syria ten years ago, a huge amount of human suffering and horrible things would have not happened.
Yes. tbh, it's getting tiring to hear "omg, this has never happened!" when both foreign policy and domestic policy towards communities of color has been exactly like this since well before the "United" States even existed.
You’re exactly right. Lived here all my life and studied international relations/traveled extensively in Europe. It has been a very weird experience to be an American who has known what our country really is for a long time while everyone else was still believing the myths and legends
*propoganda not myths and legends. It's a small change but an important one that explains why people in the USA have main character syndrome about the USA.
Oh absolutely. I would simply argue that myths and legends are a PART of the overall propaganda machine. The myth of our country’s founding, the legends about how slavery “ended,” the whole false narrative around how we “won the Civil Rights movement” — those are the myths I mean
Oh 100%! As I Canadian I know some of your myths but not all so I am definitely missing pieces of the propoganda machine as we see your country for what it is.
I don’t know how to explain the insidious way they brainwash us with the one-two-three punch of public school indoctrination, TV programs, and sporting events…it’s almost impossible to escape the indoctrination to be honest. It’s probably why we all have personality disorders
It’s going to become unmistakable in about ~two or three months. They’re already shipping people to the concentration camps. And whatever they’re saying on the news, our market/economy is EXTREMELY vulnerable right now
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They have simply aligned their domestic policy with their foreign policy.
Do you have any idea what the United States did to South America?
Now you get to experience the same horrors.
Shoo
USAID was helping some people, AND the US government actively harms people around the world with violence designed to maximize capital at the expense of the environment and human lives.
Using aid as a way to manipulate people is always evil, even if the aid is materially helpful.
It is one of the most wicked forms of coercion.
All hail King Shit of the Tu Quoque. 👑
Shit like this is why nobody likes the USA.
The actual good it does should have continued, or at the least had a reasonable tapering off period, but USAID, along with NED, can burn to the ground.
I like your optimism.
Bartender, whatever mademoiselle Galloway is having.
There is no going back. Only cleansing corruption with fervor that our current Democratic Party utterly lacks.
I'm not sayin' it's good it sucks