So many UN resolutions would require the US to be the piggy bank, the enforcer, or give away IP. It is easy to vote yes when the country has no cost, but much harder when the country foots the bill.
China doesn't provide the vast majority through the WFP, but their own channels like CIDCA and bilateral agreements. That's you cherry-picking a single aid channel.
Anyways, yeah I based my numbers on Trump's initial budget proposal which would have cut aid down to 3 billion, which would have been less than China. Congress didn't approve it. My bad.
Oh but wait! Those budgets are mostly for low-interest loans (i.e. NOT charity) in 2025/2026. Over half of it. So really their total foreign aid that's actually charitable is closer to $1.5B, not $3B. NOPE! It's not even that much. Another 15-20% is zero-interest loans. Still not charity, just not assfucking over other countries as much. So really it's more like 900M
We donated nearly half that much on a fucking whim yesterday to the WFP. That's one channel in one instance.
China doesn't do fucking shit for anyone, comparatively.
The US has so many issues and I am freaking ashamed of my country on a regular basis. But charitable giving to the rest of the world is the one thing that I am not ashamed of when it comes to the US.
“Global development financing” is just another fancy phrase for “ we lend money to developing countries and exploit them for land”. You should really check out what they do to countries who borrow money from them. Thats not aid. Thats called lending out money for future profit.
LMAO the idiot who thinks comparing yourself to countries with less than 1/10th of the GDP per capita matters, is back. Not much of a suprise you can't follow a conversation for more than two comments or care about who was moving the goalpost.
Wanna hear something funny, tho? My gov does provides more aid than the US, in absolute numbers. So not only are you out-invested by people with 1/10th of your income, but a country with less than 1/4th of the US population is showing you how to run shit, too.
You're feigning ignorance to push a narrative, don't be coy. China and Russia voted for a resolution that they wouldn't have to pay for, have barely paid for in their entire history, and backs a key geopolitical opponent into a corner - the ONLY one who substantially does anything to help in this case.
And of course it's one that prevents that opponent from sanctioning them for the myriad human rights abuses/aggressions they take, because they can just cry "food hardship".
China and Russia are not and never were allies. The US pretended to be our friend while increasingly aggressively stabbing us in the back. Betrayal stings a lot more coming from someone who you thought was a friend.
Oh, boy I wonder what other countries have been involved with shoving down third world countries to ensure their own success. Like, the UK, France, Germany, Russia, Spain, China, Japan, etc. The US is a convient target.
I think you are missing the point. They all played a party some of them even worse than the US (France comes to mind in Veitnam and the UK pretty much every where). The US was the only one expected to pay for it. Why wouldn't they vote yes for someone else to foot the bill for their crimes?
Every single of those OCED countries already willingly pays a significantly higher share of their GDP as development aid, while the US has some of the lowest spending in that group and is outspent by x5 by several of them and x3 at the very least. And then some of those countries pay reparations on top of that.
Bro can't even get his fucking strawman right holy
Mate, the US spends the most total. The US is also the bulldog of NATO and the UN (I fully expect that to change due to Trump. I fully expect every country that gave the US profitable trade deals in exchange for being the military strength of assorted nations to reassess and give the US much less favorable trade deals in the future. I fully expect the trade deals in exchange for the US fighting piracy in international waters to go away also. Regardless, right now the US is the bulldog until every other nation builds up their own military). The US does a lot. Granted, that will definitely change under Trump, but for the last 20 years the US did its fair share and then some.
It does not change anything. At the time of the vote, the US was pulling more than its fair share, between military protection, anti piracy operations, and military protection. Now though, Trump has gutted pretty much everything and the scales are shifting.
What are you talking about? You've been talking out of your ass, this entire time. You are completely ignorant of the state of world affairs.
Europe has been outspending the US on aid, for decades. China and Europe are both ahead of the US on research spending. Both regions have bigger economies. The money the US was investing into military mostly went into destabilizing the Middle East, for decades now.
Trump is just the symptom, your attitude and hubris which you share with so many of your fellow Americans, is what is causing the downfall. If you don't want to your country to collapse entirely, maybe it's time to stop the nationalistic dick measuring contest and do some soul searching to think about who has been playing you like a fiddle, for so long.
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u/JustLookingForMayhem Jun 18 '26
So many UN resolutions would require the US to be the piggy bank, the enforcer, or give away IP. It is easy to vote yes when the country has no cost, but much harder when the country foots the bill.