My Dad was in the US Navy in World War II. A PT boat commander, he returned to America's shores from the South Pacific to take up life where he had left off after graduating college. Like most of his contemporaries, Albert E. Butler truly believed his sacrifices had defeated a great evil. He also believed in the America we've all been taught to believe in, the one where the dream of peace and freedom is not just possible, but an eventuality. Later in his life, my father began writing a book about politics, geo-strategy, and the causation for most of the world's ills. He never finished the work; an epic work entitled "One Nation Under Two Flags". I mention it here, because we have been a nation ruled by two masters. One, our own immutable sense of equality and potential, it has driven us to paramount achievements and noble sacrifices. While the other "master" has deceived us, manipulated us, and soiled the name of the United States of America like a dirty dish rag. I think many reading this will agree, this betrayal is not simply onerous, it is unforgivable. Chief among the mistruths we've been told, is the real nature of our good heartedness and charity, our giving of ourselves and what we have - only so that wealthy elitists can do what they always do - take advantage. If you are like I am, you will be incensed to know, the devastation and death that has come about in the name of goodness. The fact is, anytime the United States or her allies invest in giving aid, there is a profitable payoff of strategic goal behind.
Comment: While U.S. 'humanitarian aid' is used as a subterfuge for destabilizing nations, Russia actively assists people rebuild their lives and countries.