I moved to St Petersburg, Russia in 1989. The place was a mess. It was a few years removed from the break up of the Soviet Union and their cancer wards were filled with people dying of leukemia, etc after Chernobyl. I went there to bring in medical aid, including medication that was tremendously effective in treating leukemia. We also brought in food and clothing aid.
What I witnessed completely broke my heart. Almost none of the food and clothing aid went to its purpose. Not even 10% of it. There was a pecking order for the vultures who would take their bounty from the containers - customs, city officials, Orthodox Church, market sellers. At the end, you had a few torn shirts and unmatched shoes. That went to the needy. The food was the same.
We had to pay tremendous fees to "Consultants" and brand all the distribution boxes for the Orthodox Church to get the medication off the dock. then, the Church SOLD it to the hospitals.
I have lived in Russia, Ukraine, Kenya and Ghana. It's the same everywhere. Foreign aid, whether sovereign or private, is a massive money laundering scam. It actually makes the lives of the actual people much worse. Those profiting from our conscience-salving donations are financially motivated to make human suffering as bad as possible to perpetuate their racket.
Red Cross, US Aid, all the pathetic billionaire foundations, 100% of all of it - scam. You can tell they are a scam, because they are still in operation. There are millions of wonderful small scale operations. 100% of large scale operations are money laundering, life destroying, human trafficking scams.
This cannot be stated enough. It does trickle down, or emanate forth, or how ever you want to label it. Help that old woman change her tire, push that car into the gas station when it stops. Volunteer. Charity starts at home, then neighborhood, your church, and so forth. I must add one thing, don't help/donate expecting something in return down the road or for getting a good feeling, that is just inner virtue signaling. You do it because you can do it, you do it because it needs to be done, you do it because those you help can't do it for themselves.
Heb 13:2, you never know who you may have helped
Absolutely, I catch myself all the time thinking "ok what's my real motivation here??" And would beat myself up over it. Im happiest when there are NO EXPECTATIONS, and it cures 99% of my anxieties.
Same thing when talking about Q to normies. If we give info with no expectations, we've done our part
Had a young man stop on a very busy interstate highway when I was much younger. I had a flat tire, this was before cell phones, and was only pulled over for a few minutes and this man stopped to change my tire then followed me up the road to the nearest gas station to finish putting air in the spare. My guardian angel right there.