It was formed during the cold war to mingle in the proxy wars. We sent guns to the militias, and basically bribed towns and villages (by selective donations) to come to the USA's side. It's basically a mechanism to pay off warlord bribe demands.

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UltraSane a day ago | parent [-]

It had the side effect of preventing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people from starvation and disease

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MisterMower a day ago | parent [-]

Alternatively, it had the effect of impoverishing those same people by destroying any incentive to figure out how to produce their own food.

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		USAID did that also
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