gee...you mean that if you pay my food costs, i can’t spend what i used to spend on food and buy weapons of war?
who’d a thunk?
IMHO Foreign Aid is an international version of bribery.
The US gives a foreign aid - money, food, weapons, in an attempt to sway a foreign government’s stance on an issue.
How successful has that been?
Helping a nation build its infrastructure with strict controls to prevent the siphoning off money and material is one thing. But, outright grants with no restrictions?