Summary
The Trump administration has canceled 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts, including critical programs that provide lifesaving therapeutic food to malnourished children.
Mana Nutrition’s CEO reports that ready-to-ship boxes of peanut paste that could save approximately 300,000 children are now stranded in a Georgia warehouse.
Despite Secretary of State Rubio’s claims that “lifesaving humanitarian assistance” would be spared, numerous essential health programs have been terminated, including those preventing diseases like polio, HIV, and Ebola.
These cuts contradict claims about targeting “wokeness” or “waste,” instead showing a reckless abandonment of America’s global humanitarian commitments.
Even from a very cynical POV, this money was soft power. It was an investment to sell other products to the world.
Why do you think the world doesn’t eat north korean burgers or watch russian blockbusters?
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And not to mention that the food … it’s not bought from all over the world, a ton of the money was used to buy from farmers in the USA.
Outside of the ruling class in Russia, I don’t think there is much of an audience for their blockbuster “hilarious falls from 8th story windows”.
On the surface, it almost can be pitched as a win against the liberal world order with the United States at the top. The US doesn’t only use its soft power to sell movies, but also to let us fly planes through other countries airspace to bomb the Middle East.
There’s just two problems:
This isn’t a form of destroying the existing world order that anyone should want.