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Originally Posted by Dragonlich
But a lot of those aid offers were *also* for political reasons. Do you honestly believe that Cuba and Venezuela offered help because they're so nice and friendly? Hell no... it's purely political: "look at us helping the evil enemy, aren't we great?".
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It seemed as if a few people didn't notice this, so I felt it beared repeating. All these offers of aid aren't the loving, caring gestures of humanity some people are making them out to be. They are PR stunts and ways of gaining political capital, and not much else.
And another thing to be considered after what has been seen in many previous disasters is that offering ais and delivering on said offers are two different things.