> Otherwise a sudden halt of aid can lead to, well, exactly this. A sudden halt in funding for any project, domestic or otherwise, is catastrophic to that proj

> Otherwise a sudden halt of aid can lead to, well, exactly this. A sudden halt in funding for any project, domestic or otherwise, is catastrophic to that project. While I don’t disagree with your point, it’s also not really the crux of the problem. Also it’s a lot easier said than done asking recipients of aid to become self sufficient. In a lot of cases the problems are either poverty, which means aid would still be needed to fund any “self sufficient” services, or that the foreign governments really are more corrupt than Trump. The end result often means people flee from their country and then Trump supporters start moaning about immigration. Ultimately you have to pay the price either way. My personal opinion is that we should be paying too. In many cases you can trace these issues back to exploitation lead by the 1st world. So you could reasonably argue that we owe them this aid. But even if you don’t want to do it for reasons of morality, supporting developing countries still helps with the immigration “problem” in the long run.