Like... We've killed hundreds of thousands and destroyed an entire country, then we gave $4 billion to USAID for whatever, so we're good now!
Honestly it wouldn't even matter if every single penny of that aid money was spent on food, medicine, blankets and construction equipment cos the war has fucked damn near every single piece of infrastructure so it'd be damn near impossible to distribute it.
US has given north of 110 billion to them as of just 2017-now.
It doesn't matter. Of course liberals will just scream about how it was just Trump, but they've made no serious effort to stop this horseshit.
$27 per survivor to wash our hands of genocide? What a deal!
not original but you know how the US stabs a country to near death, and then gives them a band-aid and then are surprised they aren't eternally grateful for their humanitarism. With USAID, sometimes that bandaid comes with more infections.
For Yemen: $4b in aid
Even then, it's just another attempt at propping up the Saudi backed Yemen state leadership. Just keeping the lights on in yet another brutal authoritarian dictatorship for the purposes of resource extraction.
Like sending $4B in food aid to the Nicaraguan nun-raping Contras or bailing out some US-backed oligarch's neighborhood in Libya or Iraq. Its free sandwiches for fascists and their associates, families, and friends.
Wow 4 billion WHOLE dollars?! That's CRAZY!!! What a HUGE amount of money for a country like the US to give over a period of 8 years! That's 4 whole arms deals to Saudi Arabia! What a generous nation.
Remember that Trump Orb photo he did in Saudi Arabia? That was to commemorate a $110 billion arms deal that had just gone through.
Honestly you should've seen the r/chapotraphouse though, those guys were the worst!
no, it doesn't. An oasis refers to an area where there is flowing fresh water in an otherwise arid environment. If you had that in the ocean it would just be a desalinated portion, which doesn't make sense. An oasis is an actual physical thing, not just a word for a nice place.
I accidentally clicked it out of curiosity one time and it randomized a thing for me. I hate it every time I see the stupid creature.
It just makes one for you when you make an acc now. I just pick the first one because it's always ugly and will probably annoy someone
It is also such a small amount of money, we spend much more on refueling Saudi airplanes when they are bombing Yemen.
We give money and resources to Ukraine too so by this logic no one should be mentioning it ever because it's taken care of. Weird how that's not what's happening...
To make it really equivalent the US would have to set up a few arms deals with Russia
reddit is just cia assets shitstorming with gchq assets shitstorming with mossad assets shitstorming with federal intelligence service assets
Literally just :both-sides:
Its fine to support the destruction of a country and its people if you sprinkle money into some godforsaken NGO or a literal government agency that trickles down 1% of the money into actual effective aid for those people.
This is the equivalent of giving someone a plunger to unclog the toilet into which you've dropped a grenade
"The war in Yemen is Russian propaganda" was not a take I expected to see, but there it is.
USAID isn't even a charitable organization, people just think that because it has "AID" at the end. It's entirely a colonial tool meant to apply neoliberal shock therapy to countries that have been ground to dust by American bombs.
USAID, World Bank, IMF, Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, Bosch Stiftung and others are all part of a single infrastructure dedicated to enacting a world order agreed upon in a New Hampshire hotel after WWII under the rhetoric of development.
This isn't a conspiracy theory, it is the conventional history.
