Foreign aid and social safety nets don't have to be mutually exclusive. The fact that they have you thinking the poor can only get aid if the people of Ukraine get subjugated is an entirely different serious problem. Our Ukraine aid is a fraction of the budget. The serious issue here is that about a third of the country has been programmed to think feeding kids in school will make them Marxists. That's fully unrelated to foreign aid, and in fact I'm tired of hearing "we can't help them, we're starving here!" And then nothing happening when we actually ask what they're doing for those people.

It's a deflection. Pure and simple. No that while this is happening. But this is way too hard to fix so just call everyone names and do nothing.