Current annual investment by USAID in Laos now approaches $50 million, “spread across health, education, disability inclusion, environmental legacy, and governance”. This is what the US has bought with all this money in Laos:
I asked AI what exactly USAID has been funding in Laos, and it gave me a list longer than my arm. I won’t copy it here to avoid crowding the blog, but it’s kind of really crazy.
Whatever cuts have been imposed on USAID are insufficient. The whole program needs to be scrapped.
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The Laotians are some of the nicest people I’ve ever met. Their demining expertise comes from being the most heavily bombed country during the Vietnam War.
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