Fun fact, they're still providing USAID funding to Israel and Egypt but stopped providing funding to Ukraine.
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Trump executive order requiring the state and all state-funded education institutes to not acknowledge Ukrainian as a language separate from Russian coming in 3...
This isn’t a meme at all…
USAID is corruption central and a job program for certain type of "american"
🎶 Just want one thing, just to play the king
But the castle's crumbled and you're left with just a name 🎵
What was USAid?
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.
It provided funding to Ukraine, Irsael, and Egypt among other things.
Now it provides funding to Israel and Egypt.
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?
Your comment appears to be very controversial judging by the votes.
That's because it's batshit crazy. Off to the right start, but no, the CIA is not secretly undermining the US for the benefit of China, wtf
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.
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Wow, I guess I better get used to a ton of USA events and news per day for the next years.
Probably not. Sooner rather than later most free press will be shut down by trump and the only news that anyone will get is whatever there government wants you to hear. Stories like this will disappear.
That's already the case.
Do you remember every single mainstream outlet falling in line to promote the Iraq war? To blackout the antiwar protests? Going to Occupy Wallstreet and interviewing random weirdos instead of the organizer's designated press people? The coverage of Ukraine? The coverage of Israel?
I think you vastly overestimate how organized the Trump admin is. I'm sure they will try, though.
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It keeps burning the wick at this rate and you'll only have to deal with it for months
It is far easier to knock something down than to bring something up.
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lmao Trump accidentally defunding US soft power. Who is going to pay the CIA to train torturers and traffic drugs now?
Got anything more recent than 50 years ago?
There's that time they tried to do a counter-revolution in Cuba in 2016, the whole using a USAID-administered vaccination program to find Osama Bin Laden, causing a backlash against vaccines, that time the USAID pier in Gaza had a humanitarian aid truck filled with Israeli soldiers proceed to kill nearly 300 people, with air support.
Alright so hold on, USAID is not equipped to stop the Israeli military. So that's right out. And the vaccination ruse was a CIA operation.
It is interesting to see that USAID has an office meant to react to rapidly changing political situations. But there are several things about the Cuban Internet story. First, obviously it's not torture and similar stupid stuff. Second, from the article it looks like it was never properly authorized and was beyond what USAID is meant to do.
The point I was illustrating is that USAID is and always was a tool of the CIA.
USAID is absolutely equipped to tell the Israeli military "We're not going to give you one of our trucks and a landing pad for a blackhawk at our pier".
How are they equipped to do that? Are you going to stand there in the way of an army with your clipboard?
And I'm sorry but Internet access and social media doesn't evoke scary secret agent the way you're trying to use it. At best it's the furthest extent of soft power, which is USAID's purpose. At worst it's an unsanctioned covert program that got shut down and swept under the rug.
Is it an accident?
Trump (and specifically, the heritage foundation) believe in isolationism. Alienating its geopolitical and geographical neighbors serves that purpose. Think of it as the groundwork for a full North Korea style break from non-state controlled culture.
He's going to utterly crash the US economy he's not going to be able to pull it off.
How many authoritarian nations do you know with excellent, well-functioning economies? Do you think good class mobility serves any purpose for a regime like Putin's, or Kim Jong Un's? Destroying our economy is part of the plan.
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In 2016, Trump's issue with Libya was that we didn't send troops in to steal their oil, and then make a deal with whatever faction was willing to sell us the oil cheaply. Same with Iraq. You're are wildly overestimating his moral character if you think he is trying to dismantle the american empire.
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