CRITICAL NEEDS

by David Nuttle

An estimated 2-billion people of the world's 8-billion live in poverty with not less than 820 million of the poor living on-the-brink-of-starvation. To meet the food security, green energy, & cash crop needs of impoverished populations and increasing numbers of people, most of the relevant experts agree that deserts (1/3rd of all land) must be farmed. To help meet this critical need, my charity (NPI) and 11 nations are working on perfection of advanced counter-desertification technologies. There are details about such efforts on this website to include the massive carbon sequestration benefits of such an effort.

Most developing nations cannot grow their economies fast enough to provide good jobs for many of their youth. This problem creates a global "pool" of frustrated and angry youth who are vulnerable to recruitment by gangs, criminals, narco-terrorists, terrorists, insurgents, drug dealers, and human traffickers. Putin of Russia is aware of these youth lacking local employment opportunities and he is offering opportunities and Russian citizenship to any youth who will come and help the Russian Army defeat Ukrainian military forces. The U. S. needs to offer quality entrepreneurship training for these youth and make funding available, at reasonable rates, to fund their new enterprise starts. Such efforts were part of the USAID mission that failed due to corruption and mismanagement.

To enhance efforts to help developing nations quickly grow their economies to further add to job markets, a replacement for USAID is needed that would also provide a new option for legal immigration into the U. S. Thus, it is proposed that a "Development Training Program"

be created with the following features:

a) Each nation to be assisted would provide groups of 50 families that are vetted, screened, health checked, and recruited based on abilities and desire to learn to assist their nations.

b) These groups would be relocated to the U. S. where they would have U. S. family sponsors and enter 2-year training programs with a focus on learning the critical skills badly needed for their home nations to progress economically.

c) After the said training, these families would return to their home nations to accelerate the economic development programs for that nation for 3-years.

d) At the end of said 3-years of the above said service, each family would have the option of being assisted to return to the U. S. and receive our citizenship similar to the citizenship we grant foreign nationals who serve for 1-year in one of our military branches.

An innovative program is needed to upgrade our military with advanced weapons to meet future needs. The War in Ukraine has demonstrated that warfare has changed using robots, drones, advanced missiles and anti-tank weapons, communication deception, battlefield modifications, and so on. Use of hypersonic missiles have also forced changes along with needs to better protect target nation civilians. Economy-of-scale has now become far more of an issue; e. g. using a $2 million missile to take down a $600 drone is not cost effective.

Major changes to military weapons and equipment is an urgent need.

Change is guaranteed and it generally takes creative minds to find the solution(s) needed to best deal with the change.