Lula’s attack on Joe Biden for US aid to Ukraine in the war imposed by Vladimir Putin must be refuted on the basis of facts so that the contrast between the universe of the Lula bubble and international historical reality can be recorded.
The current poll leader said at a pre-campaign event in Porto Alegre:
“I don’t see President Biden on TV who never gave a speech to give a dollar to the starving people in Africa, I’ve never seen a speech by him to give a dollar, he declared 40 billion to help Ukraine buy weapons.”
First of all, no one has ever seen any American president talk about giving “a dollar” to Africans in need, because the country gives billions of times more.
In the first two decades of the 21st century, the United States invested more than $100 billion. [R$ 480 bilhões, no câmbio de hoje] In the health of sub-Saharan African nations.
At the beginning of this third decade, the investment continues. In February 2022, the Biden government announced that it would devote more than US$250 million to send vaccines against Covid-19 to 11 countries in the sub-Saharan region: Angola, Ivory Coast, Eswatini, Ghana, Lesotho, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, less than 40% of the total population vaccinated with at least one dose in them. The total number of US doses sent to Africa in March reached 100 million.
That same month, David Beasley, director-general of the UN’s World Food Program (WFP), warned that the flood of Ukrainian refugees and cuts to the planting season threatened to push world hunger to “catastrophic” levels. Before the Russian invasion, 44 WFPs receive 50% of their revenue. goods Ukrainian.
“This is unprecedented,” Beasley said. “This means that prices will rise and there will be shortages of all kinds of food, such as meat, corn, oats, rye,” said Daniel Balaban, WFP’s representative in Brazil, emphasizing that the program’s budget has already been committed. bittersweet He also stressed that the world’s poorest countries, especially those south of the Sahara, would be “extremely affected”. “This population has depended on support and these purchases, we will need more conditions to serve these countries and find solutions in the short and medium term.”
In March, members of the U.S. Senate Hunger Committee, which brought together Republicans and Democrats, requested that funds from the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Fund (BEHT), which had not been done since 2014, be used to strengthen existing food operations. Countries with severe food insecurity.
In April, the Biden administration announced that it would use $282 million from BEHT to support the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) operations in six countries, five in Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, and South Sudan) and one Asian. (Yemen). The Department of Agriculture (USDA) will still provide additional funding of $388 million to cover ocean and land transportation and other related costs.
“In Ukraine, which provides 10% of the world’s wheat, farmers struggle to plant and harvest their crops, fearing Russian mines and bombings; goods Vital resources are severely constrained by the Russian occupation, which has caused the closure of Ukrainian ports,” said USAID administrator Samantha Power. Today’s BEHT bailout will help us respond to unprecedented needs in countries facing historical food insecurity.”
Of course, none of this contradicts Biden’s agenda and speeches.
While competing for the White House, his ticket promised to implement a “bold strategy” for Africa based on “mutually respectful participation”, “investment promotion” and “revived diplomacy”.
On his sixteenth day in office, the President promised partnership and partnership by sending a video message to African leaders attending the 34th African Union Summit. American solidarity on a number of critical issues.
On September 21, 2021, at the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly, Biden spoke out against authoritarianism and oppression, citing the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Cameroon and Zambia, among other countries. It also guaranteed the US contribution to populations facing hunger and other needs:
“We will continue to be the world’s largest humanitarian contributors, bringing foodwater, shelter, emergency medical services and other vital aids for millions of people in need.
When there is an earthquake, typhoon or disaster anywhere in the world, the United States of America stands out. We will be ready to help.
And at a time around one in three people worldwide do not have access to adequate foodonly in this last year, The United States commits bring our partners together to strive the urgent needs of malnutrition and make sure we can sustainably feed the world for decades to come.
For this purpose, the USA $10 billion commitment to end hunger and invest in food systems at home and abroada.
Since 2000, the US government has invested Over $140 billion to advance global health and strengthen health systemsand we will continue to lead the way in using these vital investments to improve people’s lives every day.”
Since then, as we have seen, Putin’s war has deepened the crisis and fueled hunger, so the United States is taking, wherever possible, relevant initiatives that are consistent with established international commitments.
But Lula misinforms and alienates his people, influences moral superiority, and by pretending to be a pacifist in a bar creates a false contrast between supplying food to Africans and weapons to Ukrainians, in fact the US is acting on both fronts, defeating the Russian imperial autocrat’s troops or negotiating on better terms. Demonstrating its power to act does not only protect the Ukrainian people from rape, torture and massacres, but also helps restore the flow of cultivation, exports and grain.
According to US Secretary of State Antony, on the day Lula announced, 85 ships loaded with grain from Ukraine, for example, were stopped due to the Russian blockade in Odessa, Ukraine, located on the Black Sea coast. Blink. He also said that there are around 25 million tons of grain in silos near the region.
Instead of blaming Putin for the invasion, war crimes and food insecurity, Lula becomes his accomplice and attacks President Volodymyr Zelensky, who defends his country and people; and the USA, which helps the survival of the Ukrainian people and the survival of the African people.
American actions are worth a thousand words, of course, but Lula is unaware of such self-evidence, because he has earned millions of dollars from Odebrecht and other oil companies to teach so-called “counter” lectures. hungry in the world”.
According to the anti-Americanism of the PT, which caresses the tyrants in favor of “multipolarity”, as I showed in the article “Reasons for the loss of Petrobras”, the vengeance of those who were never satisfied to confirm the US authorities is in full force. “, bribes that occurred in the company during PT governments.
Meanwhile, in the same speech at the UN, Biden took the issue broadly:
“Corruption fuels inequality, drains nations’ resources, crosses borders, and inflicts human suffering. It is nothing more than a threat to national security in the 21st century.
Across the world, we are seeing more and more citizens express dissatisfaction with seeing the wealthy and well-connected get richer, accepting payments and bribes, and operating above the law when the vast majority of people struggle to find jobs or get people food. table. to get your desk or company aired or just to send your kids to school.
In every region, people took to the streets to demand that their governments meet the basic needs of the people, give everyone a fair chance of success, and protect their God-given rights.
And in this chorus we hear a common cry across languages and continents: a simple cry of dignity. Our job as leaders is to heed this call, not try to silence it.
The United States is committed to using our resources and international platform to support, hear, partner with these voices, and find ways to respond to advance human dignity around the world.”
In this sense, it is quite understandable why Lula preferred Russia, Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua companies.
source: Noticias
