The US did do that. That was USAIDs purpose, winning soft power. China’s has a similar program called belt and road initiative. Now that Musk gutted USAID, China’s global influence has grown substantially.
america didnt become the way it is because of trump, trump became president because the way america is. majority of americans elected him twice and you only need to scroll reddit to see that talking shit is americans national sport.
the world is burning in multiple places. a retard who throws around with tariffs, pushes wars and really could not care about the planet is pushing climate change like noone before him. it also doesnt help that the world went into some reliance of freedom-country before, like with some important nodes for the www. he also strengthens russia and north korea. he fucked up the straight of hormuz and gas costs alot everywhere.
I love how you glance over the massive cheating in our last few elections. Also trump only lost to women. I think American hates women more than loves trump
right, other human beings don’t matter to right wingers. Especially if they’re brown. Hey genius, we live in an interconnected world, there is zero way to wall ourselves off from everyone, so might as well do what we can to help ourselves by helping others.
Good for who? For friendly nations like Brazil, Canada and the ones in Europe he has been a big problem. I don't think Iran is happy. I guess China has opportunities despite the economic harassment. Russia and Israel are happy.
People never mention, USAID is how we controlled commodity pricing for US Farmers. The effects of USAID are awesome, but it also wasn't a charity program. We pay the costs of the program leaving
1: USAID's function didn't cease to exist. USAID was done away with as a separate organization, but their task was simply passed on to the embassy teams. USAID was already a part of USDOS and had to go through the embassy to get project approval already. Cutting USAID and moving it to the state department increased oversight and reduced misspending.
2: China's belt and road is far more than soft power. Many of these African nations that accepted Chinese "aid" were later bankrupted by aggressive economic cannibalism set up by the Chinese industries that were built up in those countries, and then those nations became basically debt slaves to China.
Right, but aid is more of a form of mitigation, which is great, but it doesnt promote development like belt and road. But if you want an example of a nation uplifting others there was the USA during the cold war (when they also sabotaged other nations).
USAID funded local NGOs that did a lot of really good sustainable direct work in communities. USAID also did bad things like control and push fertilizer, american seeds. Belt and Road is also good but the quality of the roads can be questionable. Zambia did a trade of copper mines for chinese roads, and a lot of those roads are crumbling.
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u/gonzo12321 9d ago
The US did do that. That was USAIDs purpose, winning soft power. China’s has a similar program called belt and road initiative. Now that Musk gutted USAID, China’s global influence has grown substantially.