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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by corimaith on Sunday February 23, 2025 @12:04PM (#43150918)
The two are not mutually exclusive, providing HIV assistance or maternal aid both is definitionally international aid while also furthering US interests. If you define international aid as purely unconditional or even counterproductive to self-interest then you'd be hard pressed to find any sort of example, nor would it be a definition I would think many agree with.
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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by refurb on Sunday February 23, 2025 @07:34PM (#43154665)
If you're arguing other countries will suffer with the end of USAID programs, that will be a hard argument to win.

Providing HIV assistance while undermining political stability is a high price for other countries to pay and I'm sure is a net negative for them.

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by corimaith on Monday February 24, 2025 @05:01AM (#43157735)
>Providing HIV assistance while undermining political stability

You're taking that as a prior when in reality US FoPo prefers political stability after the Cold War. You need to get a grip here if you're seeing everything through the lens of dubious paranoia, if not just leftist resentment.

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by refurb on Monday February 24, 2025 @07:22PM (#43166612)
> You're taking that as a prior when in reality US FoPo prefers political stability after the Cold War. You need to get a grip here if you're seeing everything through the lens of dubious paranoia, if not just leftist resentment.

I should rephrase that to "political instability with regards to the perspective of locals".

I agree the US is seeking "political stability" with these activities. But it's on US terms which is often in direct opposition to the locals.

And I'd argue my view is not "dubious paranoia". The purpose of USAID is to use development activities as a cover for interference in other country's politics.

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