Now let's see what this abroad aid is for. For medicine and treatment. To support people with experience of migration and refugees. To fight disinformation and empower independent media. The second I know well, due to the fact that for 2 years I have been coordinating independent media support programmes in Poland, including local media, and these programmes are financed by US funds.
We supported editorials in the improvement process, organized training, observed the implementation of large projects on youth, demographic change, the aged and their regular challenges.
Like thousands of organizations around the world, regular editorials have been deprived of a very crucial origin of funding. On the night of Friday Saturday, I was informed, "Please halt working." Sure. You can't just halt working erstwhile you work with people.
Which truly means Donald Trump's controversial decision.
Someone asked me this morning if it was specified a terrible thought to revise that support. Well, the organisations that receive specified support must meet a number of requirements. The programmes implemented are carefully checked, all 3 months they consist of detailed, sometimes even indecently detailed, financial and substantive reports, all actions are shown and described. It's apparent that in 90 days it can't truly be assessed, not in that mass, Even if you are Mark Rubio And you have a full staff of people. Besides, it is not about any evaluation – see the first conviction of the January 20 notice.
There's 1 more question. Should journalism be funded by governments, especially strangers? First of all, it's not the U.S. government, it's specifically called cells that are tasked with manipulating possible political influences.
Secondly, journalism must be financed somehow. It can grow little and little frequently from advertising due to the fact that this marketplace took over digital platforms – surprise – American. less and less readers want to pay for content, due to the fact that the news section besides took over in a crucial part of the platform – attention – American.
The media in the regions is besides facing the competition of newspapers and local portals – due to the fact that all local man now wants to have his own press, of course favorable. It is more comfortable and much nicer to form your image on your own than to answer inquisitive questions by journalists and journalists looking at your hands. Media in Poland is media Schrödinger: to be qualitative, independent from everything and everyone, print the world's best analysis, make digitally, teach, entertain, and work fast and best for free.
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But let's leave the media behind, after all, it's not just journalism that gets hit by Trump's decision. A number of relief organisations, active in supporting migrants and migrants, providing medical and humanitarian support, are to halt work. And you can't halt getting sick for 90 days, even if you truly want it Donald Trump. Someone's gonna die due to the fact that they're not getting drugs, vaccines, food.
President Trump's decision means to me that the social agreement has been broken, in the sense that those who have more power have so far supported those more vulnerable, in hard situations – and now this kind of solidarity has been challenged. The United States is simply a immense economical power, and this power was not built entirely independently, just on the back of migrants or, for example, through predatory American corporations that operate globally, utilizing inexpensive labour in little developed countries and avoiding paying taxes. It is clear to me that specified a country should be active in helping others.
Butterfly effect
Donald Trump's provisions are analysed from a political discipline perspective, utilizing soft power terms, power distribution, and I'm afraid this is just a plan written on a napkin, not a political thought.
Following the decisions of the 47th president of the United States, you can already see that he likes simple and visible solutions, best included in simple tables, left loss, right profit. I don't really know if he truly knew what the effects of his decision and what it truly is. He snapped his fingers due to the fact that maybe. It's a butterfly effect, only this butterfly is large and beautiful aggressive.
