In the race to save lives after the Myanmar quake, US rescuers are notable by their absence
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Notably absent from the aftermath of the 7.7-magnitude earthquake in the poor Southeast Asian nation Myanmar: the uniquely skilled, well-equipped and swift search-and-rescue teams and disaster-response crews from the United States.
At least 15 Asian and Western government rescue teams have landed crews reaching hundreds of workers in size, alongside initial pledges of financial aid reaching tens of millions of dollars, as the death toll of the March 28 quake tops 3,000, Myanmar’s government says. Cameras showed Vietnam’s team on arrival, marching square-shouldered to the rescue behind their country’s flag.
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Notably absent from the aftermath of the 7.7-magnitude earthquake in the poor Southeast Asian nation Myanmar: the uniquely skilled, well-equipped and swift search-and-rescue teams and disaster-response crews from the United States.
At least 15 Asian and Western government rescue teams have landed crews reaching hundreds of workers in size, alongside initial pledges of financial aid reaching tens of millions of dollars, as the death toll of the March 28 quake tops 3,000, Myanmar’s government says. Cameras showed Vietnam’s team on arrival, marching square-shouldered to the rescue behind their country’s flag.
I hate to say it, but it think we got enough problems brewing at home.
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“We” threw 2 million dollars at the problem and pretended that was just as helpful as sending actual aid, as had been done in the past.
Did we? I haven't seen anything claiming we did anything more than that, or claiming we had an undue impact. I've barely seen more than this one article on the topic that even mentions the US's (craven lack of) involvement in this, really. Does anyone in the current admin even care enough to misrepresent our involvement?
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I hate to say it, but it think we got enough problems brewing at home.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too. The Nazis have killed USAID, and we are locked in a Civil War at home. The rest of the world is going to have to excuse us for the next few years.
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too. The Nazis have killed USAID, and we are locked in a Civil War at home. The rest of the world is going to have to excuse us for the next few years.
Decades, probably. Autocracy is very hard to remove without outside help.
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Pretty sure it's the friendly handshake.
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Decades, probably. Autocracy is very hard to remove without outside help.
Analysts said that even before the inauguration that it would take 40 years to undo the dammage the Drumpfster had said he would do.
He has gone far beyond what he said he would do.
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too. The Nazis have killed USAID, and we are locked in a Civil War at home. The rest of the world is going to have to excuse us for the next few years.
These are the kind of opportunities that the US were masters at exploiting to push its soft power around the globe.
The world order really is changing quickly...
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These are the kind of opportunities that the US were masters at exploiting to push its soft power around the globe.
The world order really is changing quickly...
I'd prefer America prove it's strength by doing humanitarian work around the globe rather than crashing the world economy.
