Very well written and unforunately all true. It's difficult for me to tell people that she is there for a specific reason since they are the ones who benefit from living here in the states.

From perspectives, people don't appreciate that there are more people living in this world without fresh water than there is and it's easy to approach this from a position of power (a western world), but very differnt when you are from a position of trying to climb the proverbial ladder.

I didn't connect the dots when it came to thinking how this would be weaponized to go against China. It's an interesting thing you brought up and I think there is a lot of validity to it.