USAID - that’s just for funding CIA operations if I recall. they don’t really do food and water help.
I actually don’t mind this.
Nah it’s mostly graft. A large amount of USAID’s budget goes to DC consulting firms, while claiming it goes to developing countries.
But some of it did go to the developing world. Have to read through a lot of legalese to find the loopholes to avoid the money staying DC tho. I remember when I was doing work for NGOs in a developing country those computer cases with USAID stickers on them were kinda valuable for this reason. Getting money to buy a new computer was basically impossible, but you could get money from USAID to “upgrade” the computers with a new motherboard, CPU, RAM, hard drive, etc.
But any chance they’d get, they’d direct them money to DC consulting firms which would do very little.
lmao Trump accidentally defunding US soft power. Who is going to pay the CIA to train torturers and traffic drugs now?
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.
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.
He’s going to utterly crash the US economy he’s not going to be able to pull it off.
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.
USAID is corruption central and a job program for certain type of “american”
That’s awesome. One less headcount for federal budget.
The perma stun proceeds