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How embarrassing.

The United States is sending a three-person disaster response team to earthquake-stricken Myanmar, days after much larger contingents from China and Russia began pulling people out of the rubble. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-02/myanmar-earthquake-usaid-cuts-emergency-response/105125224

The NYTimes reported the US team was expected to arrive on Wednesday — five days after the 7.7-magnitude earthquake flattened large parts of the country's biggest cities on Friday. Mr Konyndyk, former lead for disaster relief at USAID said the first five days after a disaster was the key time-frame for finding people alive. "The US has missed that window, and the cost of that is lost lives of people who could have been saved in Myanmar," he said.

"It's not a case of worst-practice, it's really a case of no-practice," Mr Konyndyk, who is now president of Refugees International, told the ABC. "It just makes the US look, frankly, kind of weak and irrelevant to most of the other countries that have shown up in force to support the people of Myanmar."