Topic: The truth behind USAID
+Anonymous A — 6 months ago #67,390
They give all their money to Nazis in North Korea.
+Anonymous B — 6 months ago, 1 minute later[T] [B] #669,624
If North Korea didn’t exist, why would South Korea and Japan still need American troops inside their countries? The goal of war isn’t to win, it is to make money. You don’t make money by defeating enemies.
·Anonymous B — 6 months ago, 2 minutes later, 4 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #669,625
You ever wonder why every modern American war lasts like 20 years, leads to nothing, and has super low American casualty rates? It’s not because we couldn’t have won, it’s because winning is not the point! How it works, is we set up some bases in another country, occasionally we bomb people with robots to look like we’re doing something, the government gives trillions of dollars to defense contractors for decades, then we abandon everything and leave all the weapons behind so that we will have a reason to come back someday.
+Fact Checker — 6 months ago, 9 minutes later, 14 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #669,628
https://www.newsweek.com/usaid-spending-money-list-potential-cuts-2029572
USAID provided assistance to about 130 countries in FY2023. The top 10 recipients were:
Ukraine
Ethiopia
Jordan
Democratic Republic of Congo
Somalia
Yemen
Afghanistan
Nigeria
South Sudan
Syria
Seventy of the 77 low- and lower-middle-income countries designated by the World Bank received assistance in FY2023, reflecting USAID's focus on poverty reduction.
A significant portion of USAID's funding went to Europe and Eurasia, primarily to support Ukraine's war effort and reconstruction.
$17.2 billion – Europe and Eurasia (mostly Ukraine)
$12.1 billion – Sub-Saharan Africa
$5.5 billion – Multiple regions
$3.9 billion – Middle East and North Africa
$1.9 billion – South and Central Asia
$1.8 billion – Western Hemisphere
$1.1 billion – East Asia and Oceania
+ZimbabweBoy — 6 months ago, 4 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #669,658
@previous (Fact Checker)
Fun fact about Ukraine: their economy is smaller than Nigeria.
+Anonymous E — 6 months ago, 4 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[T] [B] #669,665
@previous (ZimbabweBoy)
Fun fact about Nigeria: they've got almost 200 million people, immense reserves of petroleum and still have a weaker economy than South Africa which has been left to rot for the last twenty years. I just remember when they removed the fuel subsidies some years ago - suddenly the whole population was back below the poverty line. Riots and shit happened.
+Anonymous F — 6 months ago, 20 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[T] [B] #669,666
@previous (E)
Oil rich countries tend to turn out a certain way. Venezuela, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Russia, etc. The way it seems to work for countries is you can have oil, you can have democracy, or you can have wealth, but you can only pick two.
(Edited 2 minutes later.)
·Anonymous F — 6 months ago, 33 seconds later, 8 hours after the original post[T] [B] #669,667
Also they have over 200 million. It’s closer to 220 million now.
+Anonymous G — 6 months ago, 2 hours later, 11 hours after the original post[T] [B] #669,684
I thought north korea belong to kim?
+anon — 6 months ago, 1 day later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #669,951
@669,628 (Fact Checker)
> https://www.newsweek.com/usaid-spending-money-list-potential-cuts-2029572
> USAID provided assistance to about 130 countries in FY2023. The top 10 recipients were:
>
> Ukraine
> Ethiopia
> Jordan
> Democratic Republic of Congo
> Somalia
> Yemen
> Afghanistan
> Nigeria
> South Sudan
> Syria
> Seventy of the 77 low- and lower-middle-income countries designated by the World Bank received assistance in FY2023, reflecting USAID's focus on poverty reduction.
>
>
> A significant portion of USAID's funding went to Europe and Eurasia, primarily to support Ukraine's war effort and reconstruction.
>
> $17.2 billion – Europe and Eurasia (mostly Ukraine)
> $12.1 billion – Sub-Saharan Africa
> $5.5 billion – Multiple regions
> $3.9 billion – Middle East and North Africa
> $1.9 billion – South and Central Asia
> $1.8 billion – Western Hemisphere
> $1.1 billion – East Asia and Oceania