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Foreign Assistance a Waste of Resources, really Mr. President of United States?

 Mr. President Donald Trump you have a passion to be on media, then isn't it fair and apt that you get your facts straight before expressing your views and plans. Mr. President, since you and Mr. Elon Musk, your informal or formal advisor, never miss an opportunity to highlight foreign aid as a waste of national resources and it's dismantling can reduce national debt significantly, let's explore the same. For neither you nor Mr. Musk provide clarification as to how foreign aid which totals annually around 71.9 billion can address National debt of 45 trillion or 36.2 trillion, that too retrospectively. Since, logic seems to indicate it can only prevent increase in debt, but in case it does reduce national debt retrospectively, how many years would that take. According to Drew De Silva (2023) from the total foreign aid, the highest recipient was Ukraine with 16.6 billion USD, this was given from the aid meant for Economic Development, but it was given during war between Ukrai...