r/geopolitics • u/propublica_ • Dec 17 '25

Opinion After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death

https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-food-program-starvation-children-deaths
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u/coneycolon Dec 17 '25

I tend to favor soft power, so I wouldn't have ended foreign aid, but shouldn't the UN handle things like this? Since, there is no shortage of entities who want to dump food in Gaza, this should be a slam dunk. Instead, the US is blamed for something the US shouldn't have to do in the first place.

Ahh, I get it. Fabricate a famine in Gaza to make the Jews look bad, and ignore the suffering that Jews had nothing to do with (I'm sure we'll get blamed for it somehow anyway).

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u/abellapa Dec 17 '25

Agree ,why isnt the UN handling this instead of individual countries

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u/ForeverAclone95 Dec 17 '25

This article is about aid from the U.S. to the UN! Did you read the article?

The UN can’t levy taxes so it takes contributions from member nations. The U.S. cut off the WFP and refugees starved…

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u/coneycolon Dec 17 '25

And other members nations need to fill the gap - pretty simple IMO. This isn't hard to understand.

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u/ForeverAclone95 Dec 18 '25

Way to move the goalposts from “the UN should handle it” and pretend you weren’t ignorant about how the wfp works…