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Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
The US Empire failed to raise successors that understand how it works, and thus they raised a generation of “true believers” in the myths and lies the more competent generations of leaders spread to legitimize their policy. Look at the defunding of programs like USAID, which has historically played a critical role in US-sponsored regime change, now seen as “woke” by the current admin.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
doesnt the new admin just consider USAID fraudulent spending lmao?
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Kinda, along with essentially seeing it as charity, and not one of the Empire’s instruments of exerting soft-power and as a front for funding millitant groups to support US interests without deploying the US millitary. Like, there is spending on developing hospitals, and good has been done with USAID, but that has always been the cost of using it for the purpose of funding pro-US millitias and fomenting regime change, and the new admin seems to not see it for that.