> https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1625634526947835907 https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1625634526947835907 That is a tweet about a suspicion, not a

> https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1625634526947835907 https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1625634526947835907 That is a tweet about a suspicion, not a news article with a concrete claim. Also, USAID is indeed widely perceived as an arm of the US government, or the CIA more specifically, for political intervention in foreign countries. And I would be pretty worried if Samantha Power were to land in my country and start driving some "locally-driven" initiatives. > that's because you're a tankie This "tankie" thinks the Russian regime has done and does many bad things, like killing civilians, suppressing speech and organization, forcing a military draft, maintaining a social order of massive exploitation of workers by private proprietors, etc. It's just that most of those bad things don't happen to be the bad things which the US is accusing Russia of - and the latter are often just fanciful tales or more elaborate fabrication.