The whole game changes once you realize that philanthropy and “helping others” is often just a public ruse for getting richer.

No strings attached charity from our government is rarely how it actually goes down.

So I’ve seen this claim made a ton (i.e. aid going to X country is really just money laundering) but I’ve never seen an explanation of why or how that is the case. How does that actually work? How is the money actually being laundered and for what purpose? Why does tax payer money need to be laundered?