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[–] 51 points 1 year ago (14 children)
  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Unfortunately, the gutting of USAID and foreign aid programs is projected to kill millions in the developing world.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    And don't forget that RFK Jr. wants to let the new strain of bird flu spread. The world could experience a new pandemic in a few years.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    A few years feels optimistic. I’d wager on by the end of this year, at the rate everything is getting defunded.

    I think people vastly underestimate the effectiveness of annual mitigation efforts by multiple agencies that have either already been cut or on the chopping block.

    Many of these agencies go unnoticed because they work well, but will be immediately obvious once they’re gone.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It'll absolutely influence the rest of the world though :(

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    That soft power is increasingly disappearing and is unlikely to return to even a shadow of its former self in decades.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Hopefully this means theres more space for European Union to take leadership!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Agreed but they'll need out of this wave of fascism first.

    I sincerely hope the whole world turns against the US-Russian axis of fascism. But y'all will have to do some doing to get there.

    I sincerely hope this is the world's last go around with fascism but I'm not so delusional as to think it the case. But I am delusional enough to think maybe someday it will be. Maybe someday we'll win.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Eh, not while it is led by the likes of neoliberal former banksters Macron and Merz... :/

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    These are Americans, they don't understand the difference.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Or we're aware or our country's effect on tge world, especially negative. Some of the US aid and our previous acceptance of asylum seekers in my opinion was required because the US either caused or was complicit in tge reason such aid was needed. Especially in South America, with all the coups and school of the Americas etc.

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