AFRIKA FIRST

• ah, the battle cry of every conspiracy theorist
  

• This is false.  The reason you won't find this story on CNN or NBC is because there is no truth to this statement.
  
• You cite for evidence comedian Jimmy Dore's show. 
  
• This show has rock-bottom reputation for truth telling, promoting many, many conspiracy theories such as
  
• Syria's use of chemical weapons was a false flag operation
  
• The murder of Seth Rich was a DNC conspiracy
  
• Joe Biden hosted a party in black face
  
• etc.
  
• Dore demonstrates at the beginning of the podcast that he has never heard of Eritrea, but now he's going to instruct us on Ethiopian politics.  You should have stopped listening right there.
  
• Nevertheless, Dore's show does not support your claim, which I assume you invented from whole cloth
  
• Dore cites a Devex article which is fairly good journalism from a pro-developmental aid point of view
  
• Here's that article:
  
• https://www.devex.com/news/exclusive-internal-report-shows-eu-fears-losing-africa-over-ukraine-10369
  
• Here's the opening graph Dore cites:
  
• "With Europe and Africa increasingly split over the war in Ukraine, European diplomats have argued in a confidential report for a more “transactional” approach to foreign aid that would tie funding for African countries to their willingness to work “based on common values and a joint vision.”
  
• Some EU diplomats  suggest in one behind the scenes memo that some foreign aid should be linked to common values is a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, fucking way from "humanitarian aid will now be stripped"
  
• Why made you tell this lie?
  
• YESTERDAY, the same day that Dore's show broadcast, the US gave Ethiopia $488 million in new humanitarian aid to Ethiopia.  NBC and CNN did report this story, your podcast simply ignored the most salient news on the subject and for some unknown reason, you are claiming the opposite of what's true.
  
• All of that bullshit aside, I certainly hope that when my State Department gives my taxpayer's money to foreign countries, that they tie that money to a whole fucking lot of support of American issues.  If you are pro-Democracy or pro-Capitalism,  then you want Russia's invasion of Europe to fail as quickly as possible and the dictator Putin's regime to collapse as quickly as possible.  The future good health of the US and Europe depend on Ukraine winning this war.   Countries who do not come to the aid of Europe when she is invaded have no reasonable expectation much less cause for outraged demand for free shit from Europe or the US.
  

But it's not the 1st time dumbass Democrats got involved in a world war supporting a corrupt nation. Won't be the last.

• Even the top ranked nations only score 85/100 on corruption.
  
• You are citing Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index.  TI is a German non-profit founded by ex-World Bank executives that is funded by donations from large International Conglomerates- Google, Exon, Pepsi, etc.  The CPI is based on interviews with top executives of those large conglomerates asking how easy is it for them to do business in that country, do they have to pay many bribes, fees, taxes, etc?  An economy based on child prostitution will not negatively impact your TI CPI  rating but pissing off Exon or Pepsi will.
  
• Although I'd argue that Transparency International has its uses as an EU economic thinktank, the non-profit has its own transparency problems- for example, one executive was caught on wiretap conspiring with Brazil's Chief Prosecutor to manufacture false corruption claims against the Worker's Party candidate  Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
  
• TICPI dis-accredited the US chapter in 2017 for being way too blatantly on the take.
  
• TICPI is not some kind of systematic analysis of corruption in a state, rather it a summary of what mostly old, mostly white corporate executives think of doing business in that state.  Which is not to say TI's analysis is not sometimes a  useful benchmark- just extremely biased towards corporate thinking.
  

• Singapore claims to be a Democratic Republic that just happens to always re-elect People's Action Party to majority power, with never less than 60% of the vote, every year since the nation's founding in 1959.  That majority just happens to always re-elect the nation's founder or his eldest son to Prime Minister for 50 out Singapore's 63 years (and of course, maintain executive control in the interim a la Medvedev-Putin).  The current President was elected in 2017 running unopposed after all other candidates were disqualified for being of the wrong race or political party. 
  
• Of course, freedom of assembly is guaranteed by the Singapore constitution, just limited to 5 or less people outdoors.  Sure, you can have a pickup basketball game in Singapore, just stop by the local police station and get your paperwork stamped first.
  
• Of course, freedom of speech in guaranteed by the Singapore constitution, just limited to the  heavily monitored "Speaker's Corner" (no microphones, signs, banners, obscenity, etc.  permitted) with 30 days prior notice to police.  Failure to follow these rules is always met with at least a $2000 fine because anybody who receives a $2000 fine is disqualified from political office.  Attempts to parade or picket any corporate or governmental facility will be met with swift beatings by police.  Top officials in Singapore rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlements by suing  for defamation (in Singaporean courts)  any corporation  doing business in Singapore that  gets caught referring to the Singaporean govt. as an autocracy, monarchy, or even "political dynasty"
  
• Of course, freedom of the press is guaranteed by the Singapore constitution, you just need to get govt approval before starting any newspaper, website, blog, etc.  The Govt owns all television and radio stations in Singapore.  Singapore has substantially improved its censorship in recent years- instead of outright banning pornographic content such as the Simpsons or Zoolander, the government now edits out any political, religious, or sexual content.  You can now watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Glee in Singapore, it's just that all the references to gay stuff has been removed.  Most references to Socialism, Communism, unions, etc are considered unacceptable political content and censored.    Really outrageous blasphemy like The Last Temptation of Christ or Monty Python's Life of Brian is still  outlawed.
  

• humanitarian aid is now stripped from African countries and
  
• you won't find that story on cnn or nbc 
  

Are you saying that foreign aid should not buy foreign influence?