As catastrophic floods devastate Nepal, the contrast is stark. Obama America once mobilized more than 130 disaster responders and roughly $130 million after Nepal’s 2015 earthquake. Trump America, after dismantling USAID’s disaster-response capacity, is offering $500,000 and one adviser.
America once played the world’s fireman. iPINIONS laments that it’s now standing by as Nepal drowns.
Read my full take on Substack:
https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/as-nepal-drowns-trumps-america-shrinks
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