Samantha Power: “Pausing food assistance is not a decision we take lightly given the immense suffering in the region.”

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In Ukraine, for example, USAID has helped farmers withstand Putin's attempts to destroy the agricultural sector.

This is devastating, and it is ceding the field as well to the people's Republic of China, to the Russian Federation and other malign actors who would like nothing more than to see the US' ground game in American foreign policy -- the face…

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