• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    there are other organizations out there that will use everything you give them to help instead of turning most of it into pro-us-empire regime control.

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      6 days ago

      Sure - but the point of usaid was being funded by the US government which has(had?) deeper pockets that your average NGO. Other nation states give more as a portion of GDP but there has been a lot of back sliding. Both China and Russia’s foreign aid budgets are tiny both in absolute and relative to GDP terms. Only a few of the Nordics manage to exceed the UN guide of 0.7% of GDP.

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        5 days ago

        Narrowing the scope this tightly – without factoring in the global scale historical impact – is probably the only way you can argue in favor of USAID.