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pk10534 t1_jaddvkg wrote

Reply to comment by chillcroc in Pakistan hospitals short on insulin, essential drugs as financial crisis hits healthcare system by WhoIsJolyonWest

Are you joking right now? The US alone is giving millions to Syria in aid. It’s just very hard to get aid into Syria and to make sure it’s going to the right places. Straight up falsehood

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chillcroc t1_jadn2r1 wrote

It's complicated by sanctions and war. You are right. But to say India would not help Pakistan is wrong. India did send covid vaccines.

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pk10534 t1_jado5r1 wrote

I didn’t say that, somebody else did. I’m just refuting the notion that the west has somehow ignored Syria, when in reality we are all trying to figure out how to get aid to affected Syrians and have donated millions to them

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chillcroc t1_jadp6i2 wrote

I read this, not a propaganda news outlet https://www.livemint.com/opinion/online-views/mint-explainer-why-india-is-providing-quake-hit-syria-aid-while-west-hesitates/amp-11676541200925.html

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pk10534 t1_jadpft6 wrote

What that leaves out is that many of the affected regions of the earthquake are controlled by rebels, not the Assad regime. So by landing aid in Damascus, Assad controls where it goes and can easily refuse to give rebel-held territory aid. It is more complicated than just “west bad”, the west is hesitant to send aid over that will not actually reach the people it is intended to

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chillcroc t1_jadpun6 wrote

Ok there are always many perspectives to a complex situation 🙏🏽

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