Trump administration cuts million dollars donation for Nepal.
I’d like to thank DOGE for single handedly strengthening Chinas soft power around the world!
Foreign aid has hilariously good ROI. When I went to Africa, locals told me that the Bush admin introduced the concept of bug nets to prevent mosquito bites and malaria. A one-time program that probably cost Americans at most $10 drove a major cultural shift that has saved possibly millions of lives and has affected everyone. We’ll literally buying goodwill.
Musk has all the money in the world but has no real friends. He doesn’t know what the value of anything other than money means, that’s why these expenditures are nothing but waste to him.
Gotta pinch as many pennies as we can to fund the most important causes like funneling more money into the pockets of billionaires.
Tripping over pennies to lose dollars. These turds do not understand soft power and international trade.
Why highlight Nepal specifically? You could highlight any country in the list and say funds were cut
Because I’m Nepali citizen
Damn $19M for a biodiversity conversation?!?! What are they conversing about?! \s
The thing is, you can make anything at all sound stupid if you try, and they are. There’s many earth-shattering scientific studies that can be made to sound idiotic. You’re not building a fission reactor, you’re “finding out what happens when you stack spicy rocks and get them wet”.
Its insane that these guys don’t realise that USAID and all these programs are all about soft power. So many of these countries are going to turn on the US and they’re going to shocked pikachu face when a bunch of new wars and terror attacks spring up.
They do, they just don’t care.
I don’t think they’re aware that they’re actively dismantling US empire by doing shit like this. They just think “this is charity. charity bad”
I think they are absolutely aware. Musk has business in China. This is a gift to them so they scratch his back in return.
I don’t agree. A quid pro quo with China and this admin would involve removing tariffs, not something so indirect like this.
It’s not with the administration, it’s with Elon.
