[Moneyguy1]

And this policy has been successful how?

I must be missing something somewhere.

I believe in "America First" and agree that it would be great if more countries stood on their own two feet and took responsibility. However, the "foreign aid" nowadays seems to be more appeasement than anything else (N Korea for example, promise to supply Iran with nuclear fuel for their power reactors if they give up developing a bomb). Perhaps if it were limited to "humanitarian aid" that directly impacted people and supplied them with the essentials while they began the long road to self reliance. That would be in a perfect world. Given the world we have, that ain't gonna happen. Mistrust of the UN, much of which is deserved, will alienate nations and peoples even further, entering the world into a long period of isolationism and nationalism. To return to that kind of world might just be worse than what we have today.