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Deaths predicted amid the chaos of Elon Musk’s shutdown of USAid (www.theguardian.com)

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China Aid will replace most of suspended USAID supplies.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.

US foreign aid is like the former, with the additional element that it actively prevents anyone from teaching themselves how to fish.

Now with USAID gone and BRICS offering a real alternative to the Bretton Woods institutions, resource rich and overexploited countries have a real chance of teaching themselves how to fish and become sovereign.