Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die | Gordon Brown

AThe N7.0 or higher earthquake could not cause more massacre. The last floods in Asia and drought in Africa were catastrophic, however they caused less damage and were affected less than people from sudden withdrawal Billions of dollars in American aid One of the most vulnerable hot points in the world. Next to the side President Trump’s plan For the independence of the United States in Gaza, the US administration’s intention to close its International Relief Agency is a clear message that the era in which American leaders appreciate their soft power.

But while the Gaza Plan is not at the level of the drawing board, the US Agency’s discounts for international development – which will witness a reduction in financing and only 290 of more than 10,000 employees worldwide, According to the New York Times – I have already started sting this week. We have seen stopping Land of the Earth in AsiaSupporting ancient warriors and independent media in Ukraine, and assisting Rohingya refugees on the borders of Bangladesh. This week, drug delivery operations have been stopped to fight the current MPOX and Epox outbreaks in Africa, where life -saving food lies in African ports, and even initiatives targeting life trafficking Drugs like fentanel It was cut. Brac says one of the world’s most 90 -day comprehensive ban on the help of vulnerable people deprives 3.5 million people of vital services.

One important, limited concession program has been granted. Pepfar, created by Republican President George W. Bush, offers anti -viral recipes to 20 million people around the world to combat HIV and AIDS. Its activities Fencing Only after warnings that you stop for 90 days can lead to 136,000 children who get HIV. But it is still banned from organizing a cervical cancer examination, treatment of malaria, tuberculosis, polio, helping mother and child health, and efforts to reduce the outbreak of Ebola, Marburg and MPOX.

The decree of stopping does not mean that, within days, the United States destroyed contracts based on goodwill around the world, but Trump’s claim that America has been excessively as another exaggeration. Norway tops the largest donor list of official development assistance (ODA) as a percentage of the total national income (GNI) by 1.09 %; Britain is slightly more than 0.5 %, albeit from the United Nations goal of 0.7 %; But the United States is located near the bottom of advanced economies by 0.24 % – along with Slovenia and the Czech Republic. It is simply the size of the American economy – 26 % of global production – this means that 0.24 % adds to more assistance from any other country. The United States provided $ 66 billion in 2023, made Usaid A pioneer in global humanitarian aid, education and health, not the least in the treatment of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

On Sunday night, Trump told the correspondents that the American Agency for International Development “is run by a group of radical crazy people, and we are taking them out.” “I do not want to go to this nonsense,” added the spokesman for the press, as a consultant of President Elon Musk launched the agency’s description “A”Live the left radical Marxists Those who hate America. It is no more than reform. ” He said. “We are closing it.”

Indeed, in a post at X at the end of last week, Musk shared a screenshot, quoting the wrong claim that “less than 10 percent of dollars in external aid flowing through the US International Development Agency actually reaches these societies.” The implicit meaning is that the remaining 90 % has been transferred, stolen or lost. In fact, the number 10 % is the budget ratio that goes directly to NGOs and organizations in the developing world. The remaining 90 % are not lost – instead, it includes all the goods and services provided by the United States Agency for International Development, American companies, NGOs, and multilateral organizations, from HIV to food aid in emergency, malaria bed networks, and bad treatment Nutrition. It is simply that 90 % of aid is in the wrong hands and never reaches the most vulnerable.

Indeed, the initial executive of the blanket proved to be a sharp tool – the only initial exemptions were for emergency food aid and for military funding for Israel and Egypt – it had to be modified to include exceptions to what the government called “life” – to save humanitarian assistance “, although it stopped identifying it . “We are rooted. We prevent the programs wake up. We show activities that contradict our national interests. A statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said: “None of this is possible if these programs remain on the automated pilot,” said a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The new Foreign Minister, Marco Rubio, now wants to control his entire budget and the US Agency for the entire International Development Agency. “Do America make more secure? Do America make stronger? Do America make more prosperous?” In a statement, Rubio asked that America, which generally worked in multiple parties in a mono electrode era, is now determined to act unilaterally in one multiple pole.

This new position is not only “America first”, but “America first and only” – and a gift to Hamas, is the Houthi rebels, and everyone who wants to show this coexistence with the United States is impossible. The closure is also good news for China, whose global development initiative will be strengthened because it places itself in replacing America. People who are desperate people will resort to extremists who will say that the United States cannot be trusted again. By causing misery and isolating the actual and possible allies, away from making America a great time, canceling aid will not make America weaker.

The tragedy on this planet is that American aid discounts come over the budgets of the aid between the richest economies of the world, from Germany to the United Kingdom. International relief agencies now suffer from a lack of financing that in 2024, for the second year in a row, the United Nations covered less than half of the goal of human finance, which amounts to about $ 50 billion – at a time when increasing conflicts and natural disasters requires granting donors more than any time He went on. Yes, we can discuss the extent of the reciprocity treatment that can create a more just system to exchange a burden – but there are additional discounts in aid that threatens more than the deaths that can be avoided, and will make the poorest world ultimately to make the United States poorer.

American generosity is often seen as a charitable institution, but in the country’s self -interest to be generous because creating a more stable world benefits us all. We all win if the American Agency for International Development can alleviate the spread of infectious diseases, prevent malnutrition in the Democratic and Sudan Republic of the Congo, stood up in Syria and support a fair human reconstruction of God. Gaza And Ukraine. Only a narrower and most dominant vision of what is “America first” can justify the catastrophe that America made to empty it on the world.