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The money sent to other countries comes from a completely different place than the money budgeted for natural disasters.

It's all financed with debt, and debt is all that backs our currency. It's hard to buy oil and other resources with debt money when nations have a choice to accept money that isn't debased. BRICS is increasingly providing that choice. The end result is going to be austerity, which is how it always goes for debtor nations.

So what. It doesn’t negate that disaster money is separate from money sent to foreign nations and/or spent on immigration (and Trump did such a great job increasing the national debt in his first term). It’s bullshit and the fact that he’s using natural disasters to to try to amp people up over immigration and wars overseas (basically advance his campaign agenda) is disgusting.

But hey, he generously sent Putin Covid tests when they were in short supply here and apparently had roughly 7 calls with him since he left office so…nice guy, right? Waiting for more deets on that (the timing etc) but if any of those calls occurred after the Ukraine invasion and after Putin threatened to use nuclear weapons? How is that NOT treasonous? And he didn’t have any NSA personnel involved in the call(s) and dismissed an aide that was in the room (first reports are stating). Fucking scum.