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Theprogressive @treadres.bsky.social

MAGAts are too dumb to understand global affairs. They think the USA gives charity to the whole world. They don't know and will never understand that the USA is just protecting its own interests through those so-called "foreign aid" packages.

aug 26, 2025, 9:44 am • 99 10

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carmeljay.bsky.social @carmeljay.bsky.social

And foreign aid is a tiny portion of the budget—1% of just the defence budget.

aug 26, 2025, 9:46 am • 3 1 • view
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Theprogressive @treadres.bsky.social

That's why the orange felon loves the poorly educated.

aug 26, 2025, 9:48 am • 5 0 • view
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Andy Fr Lo @andyfralov.bsky.social

Trump has supercharged everything, of course, but the seeds were planted by previous administrations. The US has never been a charity and (like many countries) has always acted in its own interests. Previous governments had the decency to be a little less brazen about it.

aug 26, 2025, 10:03 am • 0 0 • view
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mgkahb @mgkahb.bsky.social

tpstein

aug 28, 2025, 12:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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Norzola @norzola.bsky.social

It's called "soft power" and it's all done in total self interest.

aug 26, 2025, 2:33 pm • 1 0 • view
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Grunchotomy @yetanotherbin.bsky.social

Foreign-Aid is an epithet for extortion and the threat of invasion if acquiescence doesn’t follow.

aug 27, 2025, 3:39 am • 0 0 • view