Summary

New Secretary of State Marco Rubio froze most foreign aid grants for three months, reportedly shocking State Department officials.

The freeze affects military aid to Ukraine, Jordan, and Taiwan, while exempting aid to Egypt and Israel.

Staff were instructed to halt nearly all existing foreign assistance programs immediately.

The move aligns with Trump’s pledge to negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, as Russia gains ground in the conflict.

Rubio’s decision has raised concerns about the broader implications for U.S. foreign policy and global alliances.

  • GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    As discussed above, conditions will only worsen in Palestine.

    Not taking the most realistic action to avoid another trump term is by far the greatest harm.

    Suggesting the Dems should be torn down in 2023 or 2024, without a meaningful, competitive replacement is garbage.

    People can’t hold 2 thoughts at once apparently: “A is bad, but B is worse”.

    Of course a striking worker isn’t privledge, they are standing on the line and could easily be retaliated against.

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      As discussed above, conditions will only worsen in Palestine.

      You seem to have lost the plot, if anything, this just supports the point I was making. Palestinian voters refused to vote for Harris despite indications that things would get worse under Trump. Yet your explanation for this behavior is that they must all be “Privileged,” an argument you apparently forgot you were making. How can you possibly argue that their position is privileged when your best case scenario for them is indefinitely continuing genocide? It’s absurd.

      Suggesting the Dems should be torn down in 2023 or 2024, without a meaningful, competitive replacement is garbage.

      And how exactly is a meaningful, competitive replacement supposed to spring into existence if everyone just falls behind them no matter what in every election until the end of time?

      Of course a striking worker isn’t privledge, they are standing on the line and could easily be retaliated against.

      Yeah, that’s the point. It’s a nonsense claim dressed up in progressive language, just like your nonsense claim that Palestinians voted the way they did because of privilege.