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Swede

(35,932 posts) Fri Mar 28, 2025, 08:58 PM Mar 28

Trump says the US will help in Asia quake. A former official says the system is now in 'shambles'

You're doing a heck of a job, Orangey.

President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. was going to help with the response to Southeast Asia’s deadly earthquake.

But the effects of his administration’s deep cuts in foreign assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department will likely be tested in any response to the first big natural disaster of his second term.

Sarah Charles, a former senior USAID official who oversaw disaster-response teams and overall humanitarian work under the Biden administration, said the system was now “in shambles,” without the people or resources to move quickly to pull out survivors from collapsed buildings and otherwise save lives.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-earthquake-usaid-disaster-asia-myanmar-001e305f0233611c0702629803e6239b

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Trump says the US will help in Asia quake. A former official says the system is now in 'shambles' (Original Post) Swede Mar 28 OP

Wait... he refuses to help US with disasters, right? LizBeth Mar 28 #1

See, what they'll do now is just give Erik Prince--or someone like him--a big bag of cash tanyev Mar 28 #2

Fu_king morons. That's what USAID was for..soft power. brush Mar 28 #3

LizBeth

(11,174 posts)

1. Wait... he refuses to help US with disasters, right?

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Fri Mar 28, 2025, 08:59 PM

Mar 28

tanyev

(46,046 posts)

2. See, what they'll do now is just give Erik Prince--or someone like him--a big bag of cash

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Fri Mar 28, 2025, 09:00 PM

Mar 28

to go over there and "help". Said emissaries will eventually get there with a few pallets of water and paper towels and call it good.

brush

(59,512 posts)

3. Fu_king morons. That's what USAID was for..soft power.

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Fri Mar 28, 2025, 09:39 PM

Mar 28

Too complicated a concept for the sick fuck's admin to understand as they've just about dismantled the agency that's been building good will around the world for decaces.

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