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If you listen to the Democrats these days, you will hear a lament about the deep discounts of the Trump administration to United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Souls will be lost, insist.
However, it is strange, outside the United States, there was silence in the ears in relation to this tremendous shift in how America funds various projects around the world, and even some support for changes from unbearable quarters.
Take the President of Rwanda, Paul Kajami, who I was shocked by an interview with CNN This week, by saying the discounts to the US International Development Agency, “President Trump has unconventional ways to deal with things. I am fully agreed with him.” When you click on the support that his mother's people may lose, he replied, “We may learn some lessons.”
How did the United States Agency for International Development wake up and destroy itself
The point raised by Kagame, which is wise, is that Africa needs to be more self -acquisition and not a needy client's case than global powers, including America. The US Agency for International Development and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs clarify most of nearly $ 70 billion of annual foreign aid from the United States, but a lot of USA's International Development Agency financing is passed directly to different groups and projects or is not in line with the recipient government.
In Hungary, President Victor Urban went further than praising the USA's International Development Agency. His nation makes it illegal to many anti -government organizations accepting foreign aid from our country.
What started as an opportunity to spread the American supreme ideals of freedom and democracy has turned into anti -democracy attempts to influence political change in other countries that limit imperialism.
Urban said this week: “Now is the moment when these international networks should be dropped, they must be clouded,” claiming that US foreign aid funds have been used in attempts to “drop” his government.
Urban has a point. There is a high line between, for example, the export of the American value of the free press by financing the Hungarian media, and interfering in the Hungarian elections, especially if the news outlets are mainly the doors of the opposition parties.
The President of El Salvador Naeb Bocley says that the US Agency for International Development is usually transferred to opposition groups. (Aphotografia/Getty Images) (Aphotografia/Getty Images)
The President of El Salvador, Nayeb Bokil, loaned Urban's evaluation in the X publication in which he wrote that most countries do not want help. “While it is marketed as support for development, democracy and human rights, the majority of these funds are transformed into opposition groups, NGOs with political business schedules, and destabilization movements.”
US foreign aid serves two main purposes. The first is the economist: we buy a certain amount of loyalty from developing countries with our vigor, as well as eventually reaching their markets.
The second is a media: We get loudspeakers to try to make these countries more like America and the least similar to China.
The United States Agency for International Development is an independent agency established by President John F. Kennedy, but President Trump moved to his situation during the era of Foreign Minister Marco Rubio. Although Rubio has Suggested deep staff discountsHe assured the Americans that the important, life -saving economic aid that is in line with the interests of America will be protected by his ministry. Few argue that we must simply stop medical clinics or stop sending mosquitoes to Africa.
Even Kagame imagines that his continent has been we lost in the need for external help, not cold Türkiye.
No, where the real issue lies in the purpose of external aid. What started as an opportunity to spread the American supreme ideals of freedom and democracy has turned into anti -democracy attempts to influence political change in other countries that limit imperialism.
Moreover, the side arrangement of the expression that comes with American foreign aid these days, in areas such as sex and sex, is not only not welcome in many third world countries, but in reality it can delay the natural development of these societies towards increased tolerance.
It is difficult at the present time to understand exactly the changes made on external aid. In addition to the dramatic removal of the names of agencies on the buildings and the demobilization of workers, it is not clear what aid we keep and what we get rid of.
In the end, it was Rubio who put himself responsible for external aid and the future of the United States Agency for International Development. Its responsibility in the separation of wheat from the peel, and the programs that save lives and the development of American interests, are based on those led by party ideology.
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What is unacceptable for the American people, or seems to many international leaders, is that US foreign aid continues with the current situation. Trump was elected to make concrete changes on how to influence and interact with the world.
Trump and Rubio got this opportunity to change and fix an aspect of our foreign policy that has been broken decades ago, which lost its mission vision and which often caused greater harm than benefit.
This can be a new age for US foreign aid, and more successful.
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