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US AID was always about soft power. No reason Europe or China can’t step up and fill that demand.
by ta9000 8mo ago
US AID was always about soft power. No reason Europe or China can’t step up and fill that demand.
- breakyerself 8mo agoSure, but while the world waits for another super power to step up lives are being lost. The US could have announced a phase down with a hard pressure campaign to get the other countries to take over with no loss of life. Instead these are just numbers in a statistic and opportunities for leverage in geopolitics instead of real lives with as much depth and meaning as your own.
- ta9000 8mo ago> Instead these are just numbers in a statistic and opportunities for leverage in geopolitics instead of real lives with as much depth and meaning as your own. I didn’t vote for this, it’s not about me, I have no control over this. I live in California, we never voted for Trump. Please don’t lecture me about how I feel.
- throwawayqqq11 8mo agoSo softpower kept all these peole alive? Ofc this is overly simplistic. There is hard power enabling soft power and there are alturistic extreme radical leftists actively seeking out and staffing such programs.
- rurp 8mo agoSo did the US reach an agreement with them first in order to avoid thousands of easily preventable deaths?