US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off
Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps
Elon Musk killed these people
He's opened a terrorist factory is what he's done. This is going to radicalize piles of people.
And that's the point. The capitalist system is eating itself and we're living in the demagogue phase of anacyclosis cycle. Buckle up, strengthen your communities. We only have each other to keep on surviving the dark times ahead.
They gotta rile people up to justify suppressing them. Can't wait for those "temporary emergency powers" to come into play.
Fuck president musk he's a murder.
A murder of crows? That sounds like an insult to crows
Just so we don't have to rely on The Telegraph alone.
The real death panels were the oligarchs we made along the way.
Time to start massive person loss lawsuits. Just overload them with hundreds a day.
So, I have to ask - why is America responsible for these people in the first place? Why aren't their governments supplying oxygen for this woman?
The point of USAID is (was?) to project soft power, it's got nothing to do with responsibility.
Previous administrations figured it was worthwhile to run these aid programs. Good PR, or a vehicle/cover for more nefarious activities. People came to rely on it, and it getting pulled suddenly upsets things. The article does mention Thai hospitals picking up some of the slack, but presumably they aren't set up to take on all of the patients overnight, so inevitably the abruptness of the change leads to tragedies.
In the narrow sense of independent individuals/states, you are correct. A country does not have a responsibility to run foreign aid programs. However, once you do, you enter into a agreement that involves some responsibility because now others are relying on you to fulfill your commitment.
Put simply, say you want to climb up a ladder and need someone to help, say, keep their finger on a button that prevents the ladder from toppling over. I have no responsibility to help you. However, to be nice I agree to help you. I press the button down and you climb up. Now say I change my mind and I want to go do something else. I now have a responsibility to tell you so you can safely come down and find another solution. What the US is doing now is shouting up at you while you're on the ladder and saying "hey, I changed my mind. Sorry, but I actually have no responsibility to help you out"
They are not responsible per se, although you could claim rich countries have a responsibility towards poorer countries to help out. However, the way they stopped funding these projects, abruptly and without warning, means that other funders can't step in in time and charities organizing this help have no way to find solutions before people die. It is unnecessarily harmful.
As a sidenote, many issues charities are trying to help with are caused by climate change (for which richer countries are responsible in larger part) or past colonialism/exploitation by these richer countries, so they do have a responsibility.
This is all general stuff and not specific to this example..
War
Been asking myself the same. However, we took it on, so we are responsible now.
