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1/ Money wasted IMO
as @COLRICHARDKEMP argues
"soft power-hard power argument doesn’t stand up and as we don’t have unlimited resources for both, military power must win out. The concept of soft power is vague, unquantified and necessarily unfocused" https://richard-kemp.com/liberal-elites-love-overseas-aid-but-its-guns-and-hard-power-that-guarantee-britains-global-role/
as @COLRICHARDKEMP argues
"soft power-hard power argument doesn’t stand up and as we don’t have unlimited resources for both, military power must win out. The concept of soft power is vague, unquantified and necessarily unfocused" https://richard-kemp.com/liberal-elites-love-overseas-aid-but-its-guns-and-hard-power-that-guarantee-britains-global-role/
2/
"The aid that supposedly buys it is too often squandered in a morass of corruption. While it has political benefit, as a tool of either strategy or policy, soft power lacks significant utility unless national interests converge."
"The aid that supposedly buys it is too often squandered in a morass of corruption. While it has political benefit, as a tool of either strategy or policy, soft power lacks significant utility unless national interests converge."
3/
"Soft power is far more attractive to liberal policy establishments than the hard power of coercive force. But it doesn’t cut any ice with those who would do us harm."
"Soft power is far more attractive to liberal policy establishments than the hard power of coercive force. But it doesn’t cut any ice with those who would do us harm."
In short
Why give money to those who already support us?
Why pay for something we already have? Put that money into real defence
@BorisJohnson @SteveBakerHW
