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What was USAid?
It provided funding to Ukraine, Irsael, and Egypt among other things.
Now it provides funding to Israel and Egypt.
It's the organization that manages all of the official external humanitarian aid from the US government. It does everything from food distribution to micro loans in developing countries.
A branch of the state department that sows dissent and destabilizes countries that don't bend the knee to the US.
It's a CIA front that mascarades as an aid organisation. Part of the US' soft power projection. I'm guessing for all their talk about hating China, they're really keen on China taking on the role the US has been playing since WWII, as they're simultaneously doing their best to undermine the US dollar as the global reserve currency.
You think that the CIA pretends to be an international aid organization for the sake of advancing the interests of checks notes... China? The 3-letter agency that has spent decades building and maintaining American hegemony is now serving that same purpose for a rival nation? And the people that have also spent decades building for this moment to take over the federal government entirely... want to now give their power away? ... what?
How does this have 36 votes? It's ridiculous.
Why do you think they would be keen to release power to China? Economics?
Because trump views ties as weakness. He thinks isolationism is strength. The exact opposite is true - our ties and treaties, both hard and soft power - have ensured American strength for a century.
Trump is going to set all that ablaze because he can’t think further than his own experience: fuck everyone else to get ahead.
I think they are taking bribes
Maybe too stupid to realise that they're doing that.
Trump is keen on doing it because he's being told to do it by the people who control him.
Russia and China are allies and in BRICKS. Russia paid for Trump to get elected twice.
They're not doing it on purpose. The people currently making these decisions do not understand the government, what it does, why it is powerful, where the money comes from, etc. It's like someone stripping the copper wiring out of their own house.
This may be the best description of the Trump presidencies I've ever read.
I don't know, the American Empire basically exists to serve billionaires like him, I don't see how a Chinese takeover would serve them, as they just disappear billionaires if they don't get in line.
I guess they just want to turn the USA into what Russia is now, but even there you really don't want to get on Putin's bad side or you lose everything. It's honestly very irrational IMHO, as the US has the right mix of opportunity and lack of any personal risk for the wealthy. They want to turn the US into a crime ridden shithole where they're beholden to the whims of Trump or whomever follows him.
Each of them personally wants to be Putin and cannot comprehend the idea that they won't be at the top of the pile when the ashes fall.