I think the victims of this earthquake, who will suffer a lot more as a result of these changes, will likely disagree with that. But I dont think they have internet access right now so you're good
Can you explain why it’s the responsibility of the U.S. taxpayer to be on the hook for the cost of responding to every single natural disaster on the face of the planet?
It seems as if for the last few years every nation on earth wants to have one hand taking money out of American citizens wallets while the other hand holds a phone posting online about how irredeemably stupid they are.
USAID has had a very limited presence in Myanmar for years after the junta took control and Biden sanctioned the junta.
Most other nations across ASEAN (such as Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and even Thailand) also began reducing USAID's presence because aid was increasingly being tied with democratization [0].
Why deal with aid with strings attached when China, Japan, India, Russia, and South Korea provide similar aid with no democratization requirements.
I've written in depth about this with regards to Cambodia, but the same dynamics played out in Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam as well [1], though Thailand and Vietnam were important enough that "consensus building" took lower priority.
