Andrew Prokop
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 15 Sep
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Well, I'm appalled by all of this stuff because it's damaging the foreign... affairs apparatus of the US government and this just beginning, they're going after the CIA, the FBI. We have people all over the world that are very sympathetic because they know the American system because they used to work for us in high positions of power.
The training ground for the developing world were our scholarship programs and the foreign service nationals who worked on the staff. All of that is being wiped out now. The Chinese, by the way, during the Cold War, we used to give 20,000 scholarships a year to people who get their master's degree and PhDs in the US.
A lot of countries like South Korea and Taiwan, those PhDs ran the country for 30 years. And they're all very pro-American. There's a reason for it, because they went to the United States to get their education. That was 20,000. They've cut the budget back, and now it's getting wiped out. Guess who does 40,000 scholarships a year? The Chinese government does to promising students.
So the Chinese now are taking over the world order, and there's no way of countering it because they're shutting down the agency that works on this.
We are 40, the international humanitarian response system and famine, civil wars, and natural disasters like earthquakes, 40% of it is USAID. And our response capacity is enormous. That's all collapsed completely. We used to send out DART teams. Whenever there's an emergency, DART team is Disaster Assistance Response Team. We can send them out in 48 hours. All gone.
All the infrastructure is gone. Now, some people are saying, oh, no, the State Department said they're merging all this in state. You cannot train someone in two months to do this stuff. Half the UN system will shut down in the emergency because we are the funders of it.
So what's going to happen now is refugee camps and IDP, internally displaced camps, are already depopulating because there's no food, there's no services left. People are going to starve to death if they just sit there. And I'll tell you what's going to happen. There's going to be mass movements of population toward Europe and toward the United States.
They think they have a problem with border security now. They haven't seen anything yet. There is a mess at the border. There is absolutely no question. We need to deal with that. Fentanyl is coming across. That's a real issue. But you know, we cannot stop the movement into the United States without dealing with the rest of the world. It can't be done.
And if you leave the rest of the world and think we can build a wall around the United States that's going to protect us from this chaos, you're living in a fantasy world.
Absolutely, indisputably, they are going to die. And it's not going to be a small number. Now, usually in a famine, I've been to famines in the Somali famine, which was horrendous in 1991-92. I watched children die right in front of me. So it is seared into my mind. I was in Rwanda just after the Rwandan genocide. The Americans, we've been a little insulated from this. We've never had a famine.
in the United States. I mean, people said, oh, some of the pilgrims died of starvation in 1620 during that winter. That's not a famine. Famines are when thousands of people die in a certain geographic area, and it takes two or three years to stop it. Now, one of the things that's disturbing me, which shows what the, either ignorance or they're doing it deliberately.
I don't know, and I don't wanna judge. I think it's ignorance. The famine early warning system is the driver of a lot of what we do in the emergency area of food security. What is it? It is a predictive model. We take aerial photographs every day from satellites. All over the world, in the food insecure areas, we compare the color on the ground from one year to the next.
So in the first week of June, if the ground is green one year and brown the next, we assume there's been a crop failure. That is not sufficient to tell what's happening on the ground. So we send teams in. There's a vast network of people who work with AID that actually don't work for us. They work with us.
These are local people and they're economists, they're food experts, and they go in and find out what's going on the ground. That system, now they shut down. Well, basically it's like driving a car with no steering wheel. The fuse system is the steering wheel. So you have a car full of food, it can't get where it's going because there's no steering wheel. And I've raised this repeatedly.
They're not interested.
Both parties support AID. But now with the president and the base, the base has changed. I'm from a working class family, so I'm not criticizing working people. My grandparents were poor mill workers, $9 a week. My grandfather was illiterate in Greek and in English. We did well. We did well over time. So these people are not into this. We've lost the upper middle class.
The business community is not Republican anymore. And so the base of the party is not really into what's going on in the world. So they thought they could do this with no political consequences. They're making bizarre stuff up. They had to think that $50 million has been spent on condoms in Gaza. Well, number one, no money has been sent on condoms in Gaza.
Two, the president said it was $100 million. Nick Kristof said, well, we did the calculation, $100 million would buy 3 billion condoms for 1 million Palestinian men, which is obviously utterly ridiculous. You worked hard.
It's low hanging fruit and the people who are going to be affected are in the developing world and they don't vote. They're poor people and they don't vote. And so it's easy to dismiss them. And they wanted to make an example of us. They wanted to make an example so they can go out now and go after other federal departments and agencies.
Instead of dealing with the entitlement program, they're going after the infrastructure of the federal government. I think we're over-regulated in terms of regulations, all agencies and departments. But there's a thoughtful way of doing that. A giant sledgehammer to smash the government, you do incremental changes.
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