Hot take:
The world is heating up. How should the US provide assistance?
Obviously not getting directly involved off the bat. However stop writing "blank check" aid.
It's time we focused on our own market in the same vein.
You want financial assistance to buy weapons and ammo? No.
If you want assistance with the United States, it will come on an if/then variable.
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If we supply funding, then you will use it on GSA contracts, buy American goods, sanctioned ammo and weapons, from American Industry.
That way, we can assist providing protection and aid indirectly, but directly assist our own people.
This also prevents our money going to rogue nations in a black market capacity for desperate countries wanting arms.
I find it a fair compromise.
(Fin.)
@DisasterOracle
Much of the aid is paid to US vendors and sent to the countries in need. The ammo sent to Ukraine is fabricated in the US.
Yet, there is also plenty of aid that is in the form of cash. Corruption is always at risk in those situations. I've no idea about the scale of that aid.
This is what ChatGPT showed me:
