It's not like this is a surprise, we pretty much knew trump would try to screw over Ukraine and tell them to surrender. I half expect trump to start sending military aid to Russia to 'help put...
It's not like this is a surprise, we pretty much knew trump would try to screw over Ukraine and tell them to surrender.
I half expect trump to start sending military aid to Russia to 'help put down the terrorist province of the Ukraine' or some crap like that.
I can't imagine how, but I sincerely hope that Europe puts itself on a pre-wartime footing, unifies and can eventually fill the gap. There's no negotiating with somebody like Putin. If you don't...
I can't imagine how, but I sincerely hope that Europe puts itself on a pre-wartime footing, unifies and can eventually fill the gap.
There's no negotiating with somebody like Putin. If you don't manage him today, he'll come for you tomorrow.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered an immediate stop to the flow of almost all U.S. foreign assistance Friday pending a review, according to an internal State Department cable obtained by NBC News.
The directive sent to all consular and diplomatic posts follows President Donald Trump’s executive order Monday pausing new obligations and disbursements of foreign aid pending reviews “for programmatic efficiency and consistency” with U.S. foreign policy, within 90 days of the order.
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Rubio issued a waiver for foreign military financing for both Israel and Egypt, but no other countries were specifically mentioned in the cable. Rubio spoke with both his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts Thursday ahead of the directive.
A waiver was also approved for “emergency food assistance and administrative expenses, including salaries, necessary to administer such assistance.” The salaries of U.S. direct-hire employees and locally employed staff also received a waiver on a “temporary basis.”
In the memo, obtained by The Washington Post, Rubio defined humanitarian assistance as “core lifesaving medicine, medical services, food, shelter, and subsistence assistance, as well as supplies and reasonable administrative costs as necessary to deliver such assistance.”
Programs will not be waived, he said, if they involve “abortions, family planning conferences … gender” or diversity programs, “transgender surgeries, or other nonlife saving assistance.”
“Implementers of existing lifesaving humanitarian assistance programs should continue or resume work if they have stopped,” the Tuesday memo said, but added that “this resumption is temporary in nature, and except by separate waiver or as required to carry out this waiver, no new contracts shall be entered into.”
Humanitarian organizations apparently were left to determine for themselves what was covered by the waiver, and officials from several groups — who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid attracting undesired administration attention — said they were still seeking clarity on what is considered a “life-saving” activity. It was unclear, for example, whether the waiver extended to PEPFAR, the multibillion-dollar program for HIV-AIDS prevention and care in Africa.
Didn't they put USAID workers on leave for allegedly not adhering to the stoppage? The fuck. I'm going to assume this is a lie. Even if condoms are not a bad thing for people in a war zone to...
Neither the original order, nor the revision issued Tuesday, offered specific instructions on how to obtain additional waivers, other than contacting the “Director of Foreign Assistance at the Department of State.” No one has been officially named to this position by Rubio or the Trump administration.
The fuck.
DOGE, the new White House efficiency department headed by Elon Musk, along with OMB, she said, found that “there was about to be 50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza. That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.”
I'm going to assume this is a lie. Even if condoms are not a bad thing for people in a war zone to ensure they don't also have to deal with pregnancies. I don't believe this without a lot more evidence than a Nazi saying so.
Biden officials seem to agree that it’s silly. https://www.timesofisrael.com/white-house-biden-allotted-50m-for-gaza-condoms-ex-official-denies-feverish-dream/amp/
Andrew Miller, who served as deputy assistant secretary for Israeli-Palestinian affairs under former US president Joe Biden, called the claim “outlandish.”
“It’s possible that $50 million is put aside for sexual health or something of that nature, which would include gynecology and many other services, but definitely not condoms alone,” he told The Times of Israel.
The US Agency for International Development’s spending on injectable contraceptives, contraceptive implants, IUDs, male condoms, oral contraceptives, Standard Days Method and female condoms amounted to $60 million in the fiscal year of 2023, and that was across the globe — not just Gaza.
It's not like this is a surprise, we pretty much knew trump would try to screw over Ukraine and tell them to surrender.
I half expect trump to start sending military aid to Russia to 'help put down the terrorist province of the Ukraine' or some crap like that.
I hate this timeline.
I can't imagine how, but I sincerely hope that Europe puts itself on a pre-wartime footing, unifies and can eventually fill the gap.
There's no negotiating with somebody like Putin. If you don't manage him today, he'll come for you tomorrow.
From the article:
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Rubio backtracks on near-total foreign aid freeze, issues humanitarian waiver
Didn't they put USAID workers on leave for allegedly not adhering to the stoppage?
The fuck.
I'm going to assume this is a lie. Even if condoms are not a bad thing for people in a war zone to ensure they don't also have to deal with pregnancies. I don't believe this without a lot more evidence than a Nazi saying so.
Biden officials seem to agree that it’s silly.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/white-house-biden-allotted-50m-for-gaza-condoms-ex-official-denies-feverish-dream/amp/
Yeah I'm just calling it a lie. That's what it is. They know it's bullshit because they can't back it up. So they're just lying.