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Now do one about USAID.
Both parties my ass.
USA destabilizes a nation through bombing them or funding reactionary rebels and then comes in as the oh-so graceful white saviour of USAID to help the "uncivilized savages" who can not run their own country for some reason
USAID was a CIA project to keep underdeveloped colonized nations dependant on scraps of charity that came with enormous strings attached. Cutting its funding did have harm in the immediate sense but ultimately it is an organization directly beholden to the imperialist aims of the US.
Not USAID??? Won't someone please think of the CIA front for regime-change operations?!
Other sources
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2015/04/15/lessons-not-learned-covert-operations-since-the-cold-war/
https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/04/03/cuban-twitter-and-other-times-usaid-pretended-to-be-an-intelligence-agency/
https://www.justsecurity.org/18634/usaid-engage-covert-action-cuba-proper-domestic-legal-authority/
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/04/15/when-is-foreign-aid-meddling
And here's something about another US program, since we're already shitting on things
https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2024/12/03/the-close-relationship-between-occrp-and-the-u-s-government/7789620/
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/occrp-budget-funding-us-government-usaid
USAID wasn’t what you think it was. It was CIA front, and Trump didn’t shut it down so much as move its operations to Marco Rubio’s State Department.
Isn't that what we all thought it was?
You're just handing out ammo for free.
Clueless lib
Kinda like USAID did for terrorists
You wouldn't need USAID if your terrorist state is not selling weapons to all groups in civil wars and all the countries you destroyed with your illegal wars and foreign intervention under both dems and republicans. Seeing the dem history they never fix what the republican break
Actually we would still need to fight malaria and tuberculosis even without imperialism.
Those diseases reappeared in many places where wars was started
It would certainly be an easier fight without imperialism