Because the U.S. brought Agent Orange to Vietnam, the cleanup program is more akin to restitution than charity. The project is why the U.S. has “an extraordinary relationship” with “a country that should by all rights hate us,” one official said.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/w... "Looking at agent orange decontamination as charity means if the US likes it, it keeps the programme going, as good, charitable people. When they don't, the whole thing is no more" Agent orange survivor interviewed in 2016. Painfully accurate.