Summary
The Trump administration has suspended foreign aid for 90 days, jeopardizing U.S.-funded mine-clearing efforts in Southeast Asia.
Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos, heavily contaminated with unexploded ordnance from the Vietnam War, have relied on U.S. assistance for decades.
The freeze has disrupted demining programs, forcing affected nations to seek alternative funding, including from China.
Critics warn the move undermines U.S. credibility and could push regional allies closer to American rivals.
America doesn’t even finish cleaning up it’s deadly dog shit before starting new loser wars.
The bureaucratic whiplash of resuming decade-old demining efforts after a seven-year funding hiatus reeks of geopolitical theater. Cambodia’s soil remains littered with remnants of last century’s proxy wars, yet Washington’s priorities oscillate between performative altruism and isolationist tantrums. Mine clearance isn’t a policy toggle—it’s a lifeline for villages still losing limbs to Cold War debris.
Trump’s cuts weren’t fiscal prudence; they were ideological arson. Now, the same institutions scrambling to relight torches they once extinguished. The real tragedy isn’t the explosives—it’s the generational apathy of short-term political cycles treating human lives as budgetary footnotes.
Doesn’t surprise me. Trump and company like when stuff blows up real good.
One of the first things Trump did a couple of weeks ago was a bombing campaign in Somalia. And people still unironically claim Trump is anti-war.
