What Elon Has Done

Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.

This decade has seen the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives in violent conflicts: in the Tigray War in Ethiopia, in civil war in Myanmar, in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, and most recently in the RSF massacres in the Sudanese city of Al-Fashir, to name just a few. Yet the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world’s richest man in Washington D.C.’s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

Elon Musk’s rampage through America’s foreign aid programs has largely been forgotten in recent months. Musk went back to his private endeavors, having comically fallen from Donald Trump’s good graces into one of his most spectacular periods of X posting madness. The administration has chugged along, ramping up its abuse and serving up fresh scandals by the day. But the termination of American foreign aid has not been forgotten in the developing world, where the sudden absence of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has left death and destruction.

Every day, this administration does deplorable things, which rightly draw outrage; but the single most deplorable thing has settled into the background. …

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