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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
No, that's a fact. It was mainly used for bribery of foreign politicians and officials.
https://the307.substack.com/p/how-the-ned-and-usaid-are-tools-of
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
Read the artlce theres many sources
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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/
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…
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?