Things like this fall under the category of soft power, and the current crop of Republican leadership don’t understand that. Doing good deeds like this around the world ultimately come back to propping up the US economy, and keeping the lines pointing up. The current leadership doesn’t understand the need for this. They believe “American Exceptionalism” is self-perpetuating. They also see all that money going to “shithole countries” instead of theirs and their buddies’ pockets as a Very Bad Thing. Lines going up doesn’t matter unless they get their taste, and they’re too stupid to think of smarter methods of corruption.
Things like this fall under the category of soft power, and the current crop of Republican leadership don’t understand that. Doing good deeds like this around the world ultimately come back to propping up the US economy, and keeping the lines pointing up. The current leadership doesn’t understand the need for this. They believe “American Exceptionalism” is self-perpetuating. They also see all that money going to “shithole countries” instead of theirs and their buddies’ pockets as a Very Bad Thing. Lines going up doesn’t matter unless they get their taste, and they’re too stupid to think of smarter methods of corruption.