It's worse than that man. This money is "ear marked" so it can only be spent on certain kinds of projects. Who are the bidders on these projects? Corporations and "non-profits" owned, controlled by, invested in by, relatives of and shell companies of controlling legislators, donors, and vested interests of the same legislators writing the bills and their CCP counterparts who give them a kick-back. American lesigeslators are literally selling out America and the world to the CCP (and others) under the guise of humanitarian aid knowing fully well all these projects will fail and leave the nations that accept them worse off than they started, and the politicians in those nations know it too, but that little bit of money now doesn't seem so bad.
That's probably about how it goes when we send "aid" to these other countries. It's aid to their politicians.
It's worse than that man. This money is "ear marked" so it can only be spent on certain kinds of projects. Who are the bidders on these projects? Corporations and "non-profits" owned, controlled by, invested in by, relatives of and shell companies of controlling legislators, donors, and vested interests of the same legislators writing the bills and their CCP counterparts who give them a kick-back. American lesigeslators are literally selling out America and the world to the CCP (and others) under the guise of humanitarian aid knowing fully well all these projects will fail and leave the nations that accept them worse off than they started, and the politicians in those nations know it too, but that little bit of money now doesn't seem so bad.
Pretty much
William Easterly's The White Man's Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good describes the process.
$27T since 1970 has been pissed away. It goes to corruption or paternalism. The paternalism fails because it is top down planning.