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5 hours agoHubris Without Idealism
U.S. presidents repeatedly encourage foreign populations to overthrow their governments without providing support, resulting in failed regime-change attempts and humanitarian disasters.
Earlier this year, Donald Trump appointed a 28-year-old Doge alumnus, Jeremy Lewin, to oversee his administration's approach to global aid. Lewin's primary task has been to gut the US's aid funding. In an interview with the New York Times, Lewin argued that the traditional approach, which he termed the global humanitarian complex, didn't help poor countries progress beyond aid, instead keeping them dependent. The system, he continued, has demonstrably failed.