Senator, before Ukraine, I was already declaring to the world we were facing the worst humanitarian crisis for the year 2022 that we have ever seen since World War II.
David Beasley: “Senator, before Ukraine, I was already declaring to the world we were facing the worst humanitarian crisis for the year…”
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Beasley highlights the severe humanitarian crisis exacerbated by the Ukraine conflict.
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Unfortunately, because of the lack of funds that we were faced with in the last few months, we have been having to take food from the hungry children to give to starving children, which is a situation that none of us like to be in.
So if you cannot feed your little girl in 2 weeks and the only show in town is a terrorist group, so many men have signed up because they have no other alternative.
I do not look to the United States to solve these problems alone, but I do ask that you show the humanitarian leadership the U.S. is renowned for.
If we get the resources we need, just like we did over the last 2 years, even with COVID economic crippling effect, we were able to avert famine and destabilization and mass migration because the United States Government responded along…