Its sad, I pray for all the victims. Its all over the news in America.
Nafo, the government attack dogs, are going after anyone talking about the sheer disparity in aid to Maui vs Ukraine.
I think Ukraine has exposed to a lot of people that the whole narrative they've been fed that there's just no money to solve social problems is complete bullshit. Turns out there's plenty of money but the government would rather spend it trying to weaken Russia than actually help its own people. We're already seeing a growing backlash happening in Europe, and recent polling in US is showing that people are starting to turn against the war as well.
Fingers crossed they don't just find an easy scapegoat to blame for it all and the people do actually start to develop class consciousness.
indeed
Puerto Rico hurricane disaster relief vs Cuba, anyone?
It depends on which government.
The US is still a federal system with states acting as sovereign entities with powers and responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is for disaster relief. FEMA is there to provide guidance and resources, but disaster relief is supposed to be deployed at the state level. This is one of reasons why the National Guard has responsibilities to individual states.
The Hawaiian state government handled this situation in the worst possible way, but what is the US federal government supposed to do to response as instantly as people want?
Hawaii is thousands of kilometers from the west coast and it’ll still be several days until the federal relief and military convoys (which were immediately displaced on the first day) from California reach the island, and resources for anti firefighting operations were scarce since the magnitude of the disaster was never expected, and there were little to no personnel equipped to handle the disaster on the island itself since most US firefighters are centered in the Pacific Northwest and Canada currently.
Meanwhile Beijing is quite literally the capital of China, so of course response times will be near instant from relief efforts.
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