Milkless American dicks threatened Ecuador — over breast-feeding — until "manly" Russia stepped in

© 2018 Peter Free

 

10 July 2018

 

 

A symbolically perfect representation of American leadership

 

Recently, Emperor Trump's United States strutted breastlessly across the World's Stupidity Stage with not a trace of embarrassment:

 

 

The United States threatened to hit Ecuador with retaliatory trade measures and pull military aid because the South American country is proposing an international resolution that encourages breastfeeding.

 

The US eventually agreed to the resolution — when Russia backed it.

 

American officials surprised international delegates at the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly in May when they opposed a widely popular resolution to promote breastfeeding, according to a Sunday report by Andrew Jacobs for the New York Times.

 

[The United States] pushed to remove language asking governments to “protect, promote, and support breast-feeding.” [The US] also took issue with a passage that called for policymakers to restrict the promotion of food products that may harm children.

 

[The Trump administration] sided with corporate interests — the $70 billion infant formula industry — over the health and well-being of kids around the globe. The baby food industry is primarily based in the US and Europe.

 

[T]he Americans said if Ecuador didn’t drop the proposal, “Washington would unleash punishing trade measures and withdraw crucial military aid.”

 

The resolution ultimately made its way through, as a result of Russian intervention.

 

The US did not make the same threats to Russia as it had to Ecuador, and the resolution was passed mostly in its original form.

 

The Times spoke to more than a dozen participants at the Geneva meeting. A lot of them were afraid to be named on the record because they feared the US might retaliate, as it apparently had threatened to do with Ecuador.

 

© 2018 Emily Stewart, The Trump administration made trade threats to Ecuador over … breastfeeding, Vox (09 July 2018

 

 

The moral? — Why be helpful, when we can be stiffly milkless American dicks?

 

If we can't separate children from their parents, at least we can ensure that no one breast-feeds them to better health.

 

Always doing our bit to make the world a better place.

 

Evil Russians, indeed.