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submitted 2 years ago by Kaboom@reddthat.com to c/conservative@lemm.ee

Why the fuck are we funding the economy of an oil nation?

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[-] Fitik@fedia.io 13 points 2 years ago

economy of an oil nation

Jordan doesn't have oil tho..

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

Don't let facts get in the way of knee jerk reactionaryism

[-] Kaboom@reddthat.com -4 points 2 years ago

It has shale oil, which is just oil that requires fracking.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 2 years ago

Who has fracking equipment?

[-] Kaboom@reddthat.com -3 points 2 years ago

A lot of oil companies. I'm not too knowledgeable about African oil companies specifically, but we've been fracking for 70 years now, so I'd presume that they'd have access to the equipment too.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 2 years ago

Jordan is southwest Asia. The amount of shale oil would certainly be beneficial to American oil interests. God help Jordan.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 8 points 2 years ago

USAID has been extremely instrumental in implementing foreign policies that heavily favored US agendas.

[-] Kaboom@reddthat.com -4 points 2 years ago

I question that they favor US agendas. It sounds like wasting money to me.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 2 years ago

I imagine there is some waste. And it's fair for you to question that. Do you really believe the United States would give unconditional aid to any foreign power? Why/not?

Do you believe China would give unconditional aid to foreign powers? Why/not?

Frankly, I think it would behoove every citizen of every nation to be a bit skeptical of any foreign policies taken by any party in power and hold said parties to account.

[-] Kaboom@reddthat.com -2 points 2 years ago

To our allies, yes, NATO is a good example of it. And some unsupervised bureaucrats with an ideological bent? Absolutely. And USAID hasn't seen a proper audit in a long time, they weren't exactly being supervised properly.

And Id expect the same out of China, but they also have an actual predatory loan program. USAID is giving money away. It's a bit of a difference.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 2 years ago

https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/04/03/cuban-twitter-and-other-times-usaid-pretended-to-be-an-intelligence-agency/

There's plenty more, if you cba to search. Idk about Google, parent company being Alphabet, but DDG provided plenty of returns. Also you can search the .ml server.

[-] ravshaul@discuss.tchncs.de -4 points 2 years ago

Those 35,000 people out of work are Jordan's problem and Jordan can help them, not America. Eliminate all American spending in foreign countries on all people who are not American citizens holding American passports. Permanent residents do not qualify.

Countries shouldn't fund other countries period. Just trade and for charity it should be done by private parties and not done with tax money.

[-] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Can we stop sending mega $ to Israel then?

Sure - same applies to Ukraine.

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