John Bingham wrote: ↑Sat Sep 30, 2023 1:13 pm

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 9:47 pm While USAID keeps funding luxury cars and villas to the enemies of Cambodia such as?

You have a great imagination. Do you seriously think that USAID allocate funds to projects only to find that someone has spent all the money on luxury cars and villas? Ridiculous.

That has been the case for nearly every African (most recently, with support to the Egyptian military dictatorship) and Middle Eastern recipient nation of USAID I can think of, and some leaders like Pakistan's former dictator Pervez Musharraf became wealthy off their Western patronage, so why would it be surprising for the United States to fit with a familiar pattern of rewarding corruption and graft (and then pretending they were against it the whole time, as with Manuel Noriega and Saddam Hussein), so long as it is pro-Western and ultimately benefits the US' and NATO's geopolitical goals? Just look at the endless blank cheques written to the Kyiv Regime in the Ukraine where the Americans have absolutely no accountability or knowledge for where the funds end up.

Or do you really think all those hundreds of billions of dollars and endless pills of viagra to pederast warlords in the Republic of Afghanistan (ironically, some analysts believe the Taliban was as motivated to fight by the US funding homosexual paedophiles than they were by Islamic fundamentalism, since many former Taliban cadres were themselves raped as young boys) were to build bridges and finance young girls to go to school? I wish I lived in the optimistic 1980s like you seem to do sometimes where it was still Morning in America™ and not the nightmarish cynicism we have all grown used to.

John Bingham wrote: ↑Sat Sep 30, 2023 2:01 pm Cambodia has many ways of making revenue. USAID or US aid has had little to do with it since the early 1970s.

That's changing the subject. The topic raised was whether or not the US turns a blind eye to USAID financing corruption and graft so long as recipients attempt to enact the geopolitical objectives of the United States, which it evidently (as per my post above) does, not whether or not USAID finances or bankrolls the Cambodian budget (which it does not).

Corruption is impossible to remove and likewise agendas..

the programs intention is good but unfortunately managing the distribution requires a sound local distribution network.

Too many az hats running stuff so drink n be merry. Thank the heavens u not dependent on the program

John Bingham wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 12:30 pm And you weren't changing the subject with your rants about Egypt, Pakistan etc? BS artist.

No, because those were both tangential to the topic of the US funding and supporting corruption and despotism where it is suitable, a charge you said was fantastical and imaginative, despite being supported by decades of evidence to the contrary of such a notion.

Changing the subject was more what you did tbh.