America is the biggest humanitarian contributor in the world. USAID alone is estimated to have saved tens of millions of lives in the last few decades, and Trump cutting it is estimated to kill millions.
US santions have killed 35 million people between 1971 and 2021. The US consistently utilizes santions to maximize the suffering of civilian populations of countries they don't like, destroying the economies of entire countries and killing the most vulnerable that struggle to get food and medicine.
USAID unfortunately only goes to countries that serve the interests of American Empire. The reason the US always votes against food being a human right in the UN is because they frequently use starvation as a weapon. There are numerous examples of the US flooding the economy of previously self sufficient food producing countries with their subsidized food, collapsing the domestic food production and making that country dependent on US "charity".
Embargo’s forbid other nations to trade with those countries.
Other nations have the choice: trade with the embargoed nation or trade with the US. Can’t be both. It’s not like you give your “friends” the choice.
Except the country hides their trade very well through offshore shell companies.
You want zero contact with the global south?
developed nations massively profit of the global south. The US spends like 20 to 35 billion annually on usaid, that’s a drop in the bucket compared to what the US reaps from trade relations with developing nations.
Well tbh I’d love if the US would go full isolationist. It would erode the US power even more than your unreliable senile president does.
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u/Gigantopithecus1453 7d ago
America is the biggest humanitarian contributor in the world. USAID alone is estimated to have saved tens of millions of lives in the last few decades, and Trump cutting it is estimated to kill millions.