cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39809384

A humanitarian organization that has been feeding more than 100,000 refugees from Myanmar in western Thailand says it only has enough funds left to provide food for one month as the U.S. government’s international aid freeze bites.

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    1 day ago

    Reading about the predicted terrible human cost of the loss of aid across the world does make me wonder if this was a possible hidden motivation for its creation. Presented as altruism it nevertheless went some way to make countries and groups dependent upon it, thereby creating a tool for local destabilisation as needed. Trump is not using it in this way, his rationale is worse even than the one I have suggested.

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      Reading about the predicted terrible human cost of the loss of aid across the world does make me wonder if this was a possible hidden motivation for its creation.

      Hanlon’s razor - “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

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      23 hours ago

      No, you have every right (and obligation, actually) to be disillusioned about the United States. This thought, however, verges on conspiratorial delusion.