I feel for the starving kids who are no longer going to get the medicine and food that they were promised.
Some of which is rotting in ports with no budget for transport or staff to over see it.
“Move fast and break things” is fine for a startup, not when lives are literally dependent on bills being paid.
Of course there’s valid reasons to audit it, and the pentagon, I’m just sad for the innocents who get fucked over.
Hopefully China will step in and save them, they’ve been waiting to be seen as the good guys.
Yes innocents do get hit as collateral damage. China and Russia do not give aid as not one country benefits in Africa and they relied on the US and Europe. China was receiving aid from the US.
China is heavily involved in Africa
Yes, but they don't give any aid and never will. They are there for the resources and will only invest if there is a benefit getting those minerals.
Yes in return for what? We had Cuban doctors in SA sponsored by the Chinese and they took something for that deal. There is aid which is free and then there is Chinese aid which has a price. China's expansion model works on debt and there is nothing free.
USA budgets 1% of GDP for a reason, like all countries, expecting a return on investment. Not necessarily directly but it’s not altruism.
Even treating virulent infectious disease is partly so those diseases don’t reach USA shores.
It’s how it works.
Still, freezing famine aid for 90 days is going to kill a lot of people who up to now were fans of the USA.
That is how it is meant to work, but it seems there was far more being done that had no benefit to the US. Let us see what comes out first because the corruption here is off the charts. No one expected this to happen and the politicians are desperate because their careers are on the line. What they have done is criminal and treasonous so jail sentences are not out of the question.
Famine aid will not happen and may not happen again depending on the findings from this report happening now. You cannot blame them for halting the spending.