The Price of Blood: How the "Corrupt Administration of the Big Orange Gorilla and His Clique of Greedy, Brain-Dead Morons" Chose to Let the World's Children Die
The figures, cold and implacable, have just been released. For the first time this century, global child mortality is set to rise. An additional 200,000 children under five will join the grim tally this year. Behind this tragic reversal of trend, after decades of miraculous progress, lies a conscious, calculated, and unspeakably brutal political decision. Its origin? What the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with diplomatic restraint, calls a "colossal mistake." The reality, far more raw, deserves to be named for what it is: the fruit of "the corrupt administration of the fat orange gorilla and his clique of greedy, brain-dead morons."
This clique, installed in the White House under the banner of "America First," methodically dismantled one of the most effective tools of U.S. foreign policy: development aid. The arbitrary shuttering of entire sections of USAID, an agency under the purview of Congress, is not mere budget rationalization. It is an act of geopolitical sabotage and a crime against humanity by indifference. The courts, cowardly spectators, stood by. The result is already written in the morgues of Ethiopian hospitals, in the emaciated bodies of Nigerian children, in the deliberately destroyed food stores that could have saved 1.5 million Afghan and Pakistani children.
The mechanism is simple, and its simplicity is its horror. Cutting funds means withdrawing pneumonia and diarrhea medicine from 14.7 million children. It means condemning 168,000 children a year to die from malnutrition. It means opening the floodgates to malaria, with millions of additional cases forecast. It means, with abject cynicism, undoing decades of progress in maternal health, ensuring a mechanical increase of 29% in maternal mortality and 23% in under-five mortality by 2040. Each of these percentages represents shattered lives, destroyed families, a stolen future.
The tally of "the corrupt administration of the big orange gorilla and his clique of greedy, brain-dead morons" is already counted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, two-thirds of them children. Their philosophy? A brutal isolationism, cruelty erected as a governing principle, a total contempt for the networks of international solidarity that, until then, embodied the best of American influence. They turned their backs on the world, preferring the spectacle of force to the patience of care, bellicose tweets to epidemiologists' reports.
As wilted flowers lie outside the deserted offices of USAID, the count of small victims only grows. These children did not die from fate, but from a political decision. They are the human sacrifices offered on the altar of obtuse nationalism and outsized ego. History will remember the number, but it must also remember the names and faces of those who, through greed, stupidity, or pure corruption, chose to let it happen. Their legacy will not be a wall, but a mountain of small coffins. And for that, they bear an eternal responsibility.
"Deus protegat pueros innocentes et Trump in inferno ardeat."
A mes amis les vrais américains...amicalementt.
François
