I love that these complete morons assumed we were sending palettes of cash to countries and not sending things like rice and wheat while paying American farmers for those goods
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The Washington Post
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.
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These are ultra-racists. They want to see the world fail and hurt as many people (who aren't them) as possible.
Also the fact that USAID is one of the ways we compete with initiatives like China’s belt and road program.
putin’s brain was particularly celebratory on this one (link not attached for obvs reasons, but article is easy enough to find)
I'm surprised it doesn't operate using the same stocks that fill up the cheese caves. Unless that's been stopped too.
Brilliant financial decision, excellent marketing when a years-expired missile takes out helicopters just fine.
The US / NATO has gone from a leading competitor to near-monopoly for international military arms supply.
It’s making us safer, finding American jobs, and securing those jobs for decades plus improved int’l military relations
Taliban and Stingers springs to mind
The problem wasn’t arming them to start, it was abandoning them and breaking our rebuild promises.
Also, there are no recorded incidents of the Taliban actually using stingers vs US or for terror attack
Which I think they’re close to getting the first 100 of, or recently received them? Idk, I’m not a Polish military procurement & readiness expert.
It’s also been a great showing for more “common” stuff like the Abrams & Bradley
Money spent is just gone, no consideration for how money spent plugs into the overall economy
We were intended to be the safeguard of this system of government and we’ve failed.
Send old stuff, get new stuff, and Americans have jobs making new stuff. Lots of money spent, but most of it stayed here.
That's in addition to the benefits of stopping diseases overseas rather than fighting them here, having a more stable & safe world, & countering Chinese power.
One of the biggest foreign policy/ military wins in history.
As they destroy the livelihoods of all these American farmers.
Bonus - Then, Trump used literally billions of tax dollars to "subsidize" those farmers (mostly Big Ag).
(In the case of equipment, that ties the recipient country in as a customer for spare parts, training, etc.) 3:O)>
(maga justification is fun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPGbl2gxGqI
Now they're losing their workers, their contracts, and some will possibly lose their farms.
And they ASKED for it.