Of course, he couches his almost exclusively in preventing China and Xi from getting a leg up, on precious raw materials — in various developing geographies — by currying favor with aid.
He agrees this is a game the USA must play too. [I said as much last week — noting copper in Democratic Republic of Congo, in particular — and the crying need for mpox- (and soon, Ebola-, again) vaccines there.]
Here is what Paul had to say. In the main, he does get it:
…We should aid people in poor nations not because it is right (though in principle it is), but because the communists are doing it….
Never mind that he well-knows (and in fact quotes) John F. Kennedy — for why it is plainly our moral obligation to our fellow humans, as well. I’ll take the win — as JFK said, that cold DC Inaugural Day, in 1961:
…The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe — the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state….
To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required — not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich….
To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge — to convert our good words into good deeds — in a new alliance for progress — to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty.….
That was… Camelot, indeed. When statesmen ruled — nah, scratch that — served, actually.
We have fallen quite a distance — all the way… down, to a guy hawking crypto, for his own profit — at the Inaugural.
Yup. Onward.
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