Oleksandr, 40, a Ukrainian army officer who runs intelligence operations in Russia’s Kursk region and whose brigade is now among those battling North Korean forces fighting for Russia, said he was stunned to see Washington aligned with Moscow, Tehran and Pyongyang.
“Sometimes it feels like we are living in a postapocalyptic sci-fi novel,” he said...
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[ed. Let that sink in for a while, patriots. You are the company you keep. Even the token conservative columnist at the NY Times calls it America’s Most Shameful Vote Ever at the U.N. If you're skeptical about all this foreign aid we're providing around the world (which among other things helps prop up U.S. Agricultural and Military/Instustrial industries) See also:]
[ed. Let that sink in for a while, patriots. You are the company you keep. Even the token conservative columnist at the NY Times calls it America’s Most Shameful Vote Ever at the U.N. If you're skeptical about all this foreign aid we're providing around the world (which among other things helps prop up U.S. Agricultural and Military/Instustrial industries) See also:]
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"Seventy-five years of U.S. foreign assistance has produced more fiction than fact when it comes to how American tax dollars are being spent around the world.In the interest of providing taxpayers with information about the value of their federal investment in this regard, it might be helpful to look at some of the top myths surrounding foreign aid, and how these myths compare with reality.
Myth #1: America spends too much on foreign aid
Opinion polls consistently report that Americans believe foreign aid is in the range of 25 percent of the federal budget. When asked how much it should be, they say about 10 percent. In fact, at $39.2 billion for fiscal year 2019, foreign assistance is less than 1 percent of the federal budget." ~ What every American should know about US foreign aid (Brookings Institute).
