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I'm sorry, but that does not absolve anything. The US's humanitarian engagement is 100% a ploy to increase trade and/or military installations abroad. What's more, even in the outlier organizations like the Red Cross or the Peace Corps, they are forced to cowtow to the political agendas of the region. For example, PC cannot promote birth-control in a lot of impoverished areas of South America due to Catholicism. This illustrates quite plainly that despite the best intentions of their members, these organizations are political power plays, not acts of benevolence.



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