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Originally posted by jayeff
Designed to benefit the US, yes. Whether it does/will and whether nationalism is a good or bad thing (and from what point of view) were not issues relevant to this thread.
The points I was trying to make was first that looking at US aid in isolation is a misleading pastime and second that the intent of US foreign aid (and therefore the barometer of its success or failure) is not - usually - to collect votes in the UN.
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Do you think my post is in disagreement with the point?