Comment by enaaem
8 hours ago
That’s what foreign aid is for:
1. Keep strategic production capacity alive.
2. Spread American soft power.
3. Get warm fuzzy feelings because you prevented millions of people from dying of starvation.
8 hours ago
That’s what foreign aid is for:
1. Keep strategic production capacity alive.
2. Spread American soft power.
3. Get warm fuzzy feelings because you prevented millions of people from dying of starvation.
No, the US will not depend on foreign aid to [primarily] feed it's citizens. Never going to happen.
You've got it backwards - foreign aid using US grown crops provides increased very stable demand. Take any excess grains made in a given year and ship them to another country, the farmers get paid well for it so they keep their productive capacity high, and the marginal cost of getting it to a charity overseas is low anyway. This means there's always enough grain to feed our citizens.
And it keeps foreign countries dependent on us and gives us another avenue to coerce them. Wins for us all around.