So this is in the NYT? NBC? ABC? . . uh . . . VanityFair? . … no? Nothing eh.
Yeah that sounds about right.
It’s not like Thou Shalt Not Kill is a Ten Commandment or Something. Otherwise it would be REALLY AWKWARD when Republican States FORCE Kids to Read it in Class!
come on, cite the whole verse
Thow shall not kill unless they are poor, brown, gay, trans, black, asian, Muslim, or whatever, then do whatever you want.
Exodus 20:13 new Trump bible
By cutting USAID he manages to kill more people than the war in Gaza. That’s insane.
I’m surprised eu or China haven’t stepped in already to fill the gap
They are. They have plans, and they’re working on it. It’s a perfect way for them to spread influence globally. It worked for the US for decades, until a Russian operative shut it down to make the US look bad.
China may stand to gain more by letting a few million die first, showing that the US isn’t the global leader that it once was. I can’t imagine this is a small-scale operation, and it could take time to set up.
I don’t care who feeds the people, as long as they get food. Cancelling food aid out of nowhere with multiple commitments already made? That’s just shitty business.
China has more of a reputation for indebting poorer countries to them, and just buying debt in general from as many countries as possible.
I imagine they are looking at this less as an opportunity to fill the gap with soft power, and more of an opportunity to push desperate countries into debt with them. Our soft power moves were preventing that from being necessary in the way it will be now
Theyve basically financially colonized a lot of Africa at this point already, even when we were sending a lot of aid there. Its massively beneficial for China to have as much control/leverage as possible over the countries that supply raw materials for their manufacturing economy
China has played the long game for longer than most countries have even existed. Rich countries owe them and buy everything from them. Poorer countries owe them and sell everything to them
I would love China to step into that peace protest. They should have been leading the discussion since the 1990s as they have no horse in this race at all.
I really think they’re using eugenics across the world wherever they can.
Modern nazis using eugenics? Yeah, obviously.
I’ve got it! I figured it out! They are killing off Americans so that the ratio of Americans to imigrants goes down, and they can show a trend over time of the invasion. That’s the key. They can’t force people to cross the border to fit their fiction, so they are killing Americans to inflate the numbers.
I’m not even gonna add the /s to this because there is a non-zero chance I’m right.
I death per dollar paid to Stormy Daniels, roughly. I don’t believe in coincidences in politics anymore.
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USAID was basically US foreign policy slush fund
This is a right wing talking point.
But let’s pretend for a moment that they’re right. Is building political capital in developing nations by helping feed their people, provide medicine, and develop their cities a bad thing?
Like dollar per dollar you get a country with a positive view of your nation for very little cost. Even if we wanted to ignore the obvious moral imperatives and just the general goodness of feeding the hungry, it’s good foreign policy
Even when the right makes up a boogieman they’re still wrong
Yeah, that’s what blows my mind about this. From a purely business greed perspective, cutting all the USAID food and medical is a dumb move that reduces your power.
Al Capone was famous for his charity.
I was also amazed when they shut down Voice of America. That’s the main open propaganda arm of the US military and the Federal government targeted largely at foreign citizens. It was priceless in influencing foreign populations.
is it really Russian influence or are they truly that fucking stupid? I can’t decide.
Because when they dont want to privatize their power grid we will just threaten to cut off aid
This is a right wing talking point.
No, that’s a fact. It was mainly used for bribery of foreign politicians and officials.
Please provide a vaild source for this claim either in a paper of record or a governmental report.
A substack is not a paper of record. There’s no reason no believe these people have any idea what they are talking about.
I’m sorry if you acceptable western media sources don’t report on such things
My link has multiple citations and sources. Maybe you should read if
Your source doesn’t even provide their name. They have no reputation for being a high quality or even passably informed source on this subject so Im not rejecting anything that should be seen as credible.
It’s well known fact that USAID was used to force US foreign policy agenda on other nations. The entire reason for it’s existence was foreign government interference.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(07)61351-8/fulltext https://www.thestudyias.com/blogs/controversy-usaid-humanitarianism/
Neither of those qualify as the Lancet post does not support your claims and “thestudyias” is not a source of record.
Yeah, fuck USAID for using that money to [checks notes] rebuild in disaster areas, increase the yield of crops in impoverished regions, and distribute vaccines…
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Can you show us several instances of bribery to a foreign official by USAID? That’s “mostly” what they did so it should be pretty easy right?
