While the direct impact on Japanese institutions from the aid cuts was relatively limited, the indirect impact is profound -- a hobbled global support system for humanitarian NGOs and aid agencies, deteriorating conditions on the ground, and new strategic gaps that China is beginning to fill.

I also obtained a Trump administration memo stating that the cost of shutting down USAID is $6.4 billion over 2 years. That sum could save more than 1 million children's lives; instead, it is being spent to to shut down programs that save lives. Help spread the word. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Huh? This can’t be real.

And remember, 93% have no record of any violent crimes. This facility, then, is comparable to the internment camps for Japanese Americans during the Second World War. But let's call it what it is: a concentration camp. Jesus wept.

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