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To be clear, I'm not writing this out of pity for the US farm lobby.

The first thing Trump did in 2016 was axe TPP- a trade deal the US farm lobby'd worked on for years. He cost farmers billions.

The farm lobby knew exactly what a 2nd Trump admin would be like & they said ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ we'll risk it!

There's also a lot to be said for how USAID often works more like crop dumping. It solves hunger in the short term. But in the long term, it can depress a countries' farm economy & make hunger worse.