Fresh off of President Obama boosting ties with India, Pakistan is hoping to shift into a closer alliance with Russia, seeing it as a natural source of alternate funding.
It’s been a natural move in South Asia. At the height of the Cold War, India was getting its money from the Soviets, and that was a big reason for the US wanting to bankroll Pakistan.
Still, the US is open to bankrolling everybody these days, even regional rivals, and President Obama has unveiled a proposal for over $1 billion in foreign aid to Pakistan, mostly centered around “anti-terror” aid, to prove it.
It’s not just anti-terror aid either. The straightforward military aid is going from $42 million in 2014 to $265 million under the new proposal, with officials arguing the money is needed for “stability and prosperity.”
this joke of a country exist by selling itself to various bidders and betraying them whenever it suits its rulling elite
How many roads and bridges can be replaced or repaired with $1B? How many schools and hospitals could be built with $1B? How many jobs could be created with a $1B injection?
Nope. Just throw it all down the drain.
The US is so interested in regime change around the world. It's time there was regime change here at home. Throw them all out…the replacements can't be as bad?
That money will go into 1) bombarding Pakistan's population during "anti.terror" operations in Pashtun areas 2) fighting with India 3) upgrading nukes 4) bankrolling Taliban operating in Afghanistan 5) large swimming pools for military glitterati
Is it time for impeachment yet?