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Aid is a hard problem that is true but the world is a worse place after USAid got raised by Trump. Aid should probably be atleast 100x the current rate, it should not be called aid either.
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It's insane to me how you can defend Russian imperialism while criticizing American imperialism in the same sentence. Moscow invaded Ukraine twice in the last 15 years. So yes the current Russian regime is an enemy to Ukraine, Europe and the US. Russia is a master in playing the victim and blaming its internal problems on external forces. Putins crying about NATO expansion and foreign agents manipulating the population was basically just projection because that is what Russia has been doing since the times of the Sowjet Union.

Regarding USAID: During researching topics in health care the research was often funded by USAID and these topics were definitely interesting and good and allowed smaller startups to exist. So this funding did a lot of good and created technology and research jobs in the US that are probably gone now.

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Mate, you can't write in proper English, so why should I bother reading your Russophobic rant? It is a matter of public record that Nuland, McCain et al. spent $5 billion indoctrinating the blue and yellow people into thinking they were some type of superior people.

Go back to school or use a spell checking tool that also does grammar.

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If there are actually people out there walking around thinking that just getting the trains running on time justified the murder of 6 million ‘undesirables’ or many different shades, and this isn’t just some epic troll, then we are way more cooked than I had dared believe. And I don’t think you can hand wave away such large and obtuse generalisations by saying ‘Poe’s Law applies’.

Arguing on the internet has always been a fool’s game, and there have always been people who have made sport of it for the lolz, but honestly, why even entertain such vacuous opinions for outrage’s sake on a forum like this?

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You’re deluded.
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Nah mate, I have put my time into the 'third sector' (charity/aid) with organisations that don't patronise and condescend. USAid is utterly vulgar, although some of it might be cultural, for example, Americans have 'Mr Beast' as their model of philanthropy, which is utterly cringe if you don't buy into American capitalism.

Besides, your comment adds precisely nothing. Cite one African by name that did not starve due to the wonders of USAid. Or even one Afghanistan person. I will wait.

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