USAID was charity in name only. It is, or was, more of a marketing and not-quite-coercion-but-something-softer-and-gentler-than-that body.
And it was a pathetically small attempt at it, too.
Bureaucracy is irrelevant. What matters is bribes. China and Russia are bribing the shit out of everyone and everything.
USAID was practically our only way to do that quasi-morally and almost certainly on the order of their masters the administration destroyed it.
All to save a rounding error’s worth of annual spending we fucked ourselves and its absence will only benefit our adversaries.
Edit: it could just be stupidity and not conspiracy. These are the same people who think vaccines cause autism and don’t understand how space research leads to cordless power tools, a hippie studying lizard spit in the 70s leads to GLP-1 drugs, and nuclear warheads lead to microprocessors. The simple clay of the new America. You know, morons.
And it was a pathetically small attempt at it, too.
Bureaucracy is irrelevant. What matters is bribes. China and Russia are bribing the shit out of everyone and everything.
USAID was practically our only way to do that quasi-morally and almost certainly on the order of their masters the administration destroyed it.
All to save a rounding error’s worth of annual spending we fucked ourselves and its absence will only benefit our adversaries.
Edit: it could just be stupidity and not conspiracy. These are the same people who think vaccines cause autism and don’t understand how space research leads to cordless power tools, a hippie studying lizard spit in the 70s leads to GLP-1 drugs, and nuclear warheads lead to microprocessors. The simple clay of the new America. You know, morons.