I agree that turning off the money pipe was immoral and wrong. What we should have done is kept it on and just taken temporary conservatorship of these countries and unfucked them
If a country is in a perpetual state of “upon the suspension of external aid, hundreds of thousands of people immediately die”, they have failed at self governance and are de facto not sovereign anyways.
Outright imperialism is somehow LESS evil than this insidious 501c3 NGO soft power imperialism that we replaced it with. At least with imperialism the state of the subordinate country reflects upon us! Vs the current system where we reap all the rewards of having resource-rich, human-rights poor nations wholly dependent on us, yet take none of the responsibility for the conditions there
Elon Musk has caused the deaths of 600,000 people already, 400,000 of them children.