We have idiots on either side calling for the destruction of (Jews/Palestinians) and here's why they're both wrong. I'll be brief.
If you stand for destroying innocent lives, you are not mentally well. God has opened up salvation to all mankind (this was even true pre-dating the NT). Many here say that any support to Israel and Ukraine is flat out wrong and should be treated as treacherous, and I can't say I quite agree, short bit on that.
It would be, not only acceptable, but preferred for us to provide aid to those in need. The problem with our "foreign" "aid" is that it is for the benefit of the MIC and we are only willing to aid in the fighting aspect. We ought to be aiding in the ... aiding department. There are broken families who we could be helping, think of people who bring medical supplies and food and water and living supplies to churches that are in affected zones, that's surely a noble thing to do, and what God calls us to do.
My problem with the American version of foreign aid is that we use that term to fight proxy wars as well as "special military operations" that only kill our young men. Think Iraq and WMD, that was NOT a war. That was a military operation, we haven't been at war since WW2! Our soldiers died to kill Suddam and feed wealth to the ultra-rich and ultra-powerful, and what we left in our wake was hatred for USA. If we came in, and provided food for the hungry, clothes for the poor, and visited the sick and lowly, our enemies would be fewer, the problems in the world, would be fewer. Following God's commandments are not just holy or righteous, they're literally good ideas for us to follow for our own good, to secure our own blessings.
I just want the world to stop killing itself.
If you want to fund any side of any conflict with your own money, knock yourself out.
But there should be no foreign aid coming from our government, state or federal. That is taxpayer money that is 1) stolen, and 2) since govts insist on
stealing fromtaxing their citizens, that money should at bare minimum stay in the country. I know this is a radical idea, but maybe American taxpayer money should stay in America and be for Americans.If America was a Utopia - all problems solved, all potholes filled, all children fed - and there was money left over, then you could say that aid could be given to another country.
In the micro - what good would it do you to give most of your pay to charities, to the point where you're letting your own bills go unpaid? Eventually, you'd end up out of your apartment, then probably out of your job. You'd end up being one of the people who needs aid AND you would no longer be able to donate, so the charities would suffer as well.
People generally have more sense than that (self-preservation). The evil of collective government is to force that situation on people through taxation, even though it's self-destructive for countries as well.