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Also why does it matter if it's in an underground ex-mining facility or a basement in Washington? It matters how much does this cost vs a modern computerized sy
by EasyMark 2y ago
Also why does it matter if it's in an underground ex-mining facility or a basement in Washington? It matters how much does this cost vs a modern computerized system. Instead the big brains over at X act like this is how the entire government works. They found maybe 1 or 2% of waste in USAID? "Shut it all down and lose all the experience and relations built over decades" they don't want efficiency. They want to slash and burn all government departments that aren't enriching billionaires.
- leereeves 2y ago[flagged]
- rayiner 2y agoTrump Derangement Syndrome is worse than Trump. I’m an immigrant from Bangladesh who is in the country because my dad got a job with USAID. In the Bush era, liberals would have been shocked if we found out USAID spent $29 million under Biden interfering with elections in Bangladesh. https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/foreign-affairs/374429/trump-slams-29m-bangladesh-project-to-unknown https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/foreign-affairs/3744.... Now you mention it and get some neocon nonsense about “American interests.” Truly disgusting.
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- sudosysgen 2y agoIn the Obama era, you could have told an average liberal about it and they'd ignore it or apologize for it. It's not Trump Derangement Syndrome, it's just an artefact of substantial policy disagreements between parties in terms of foreign policy goals being low historically, and mass media minimizing imperialism.
- leereeves 2y agoPeople aren't just ignoring the imperialism; they're outraged that Trump is shutting it down.
- sterlind 2y agoBuying Greenland, annexing Canada, retaking the Panama Canal, building beachfront resorts in Gaza and squeezing $500B of rare earth minerals out of Ukraine isn't imperialism? Or does Trump get a pass on what he says he'll do, because it's just trolling to trigger the libs?
- rayiner 2y agoObviously the trolling is different from actually doing. And what the substance of what Trump did with Panama was accuse it of failing to respect the neutrality provisions of the treaty which transferred control of the canal to Panama. And in Ukraine he’s demanding security for hundreds of billions in support we have provided that country. Exercising America’s rights under treaties or demanding compensation for military support is hardly comparable to bankrolling dissident groups in foreign countries.
- leereeves 2y agoI'd much rather have a President who says dumb things for attention than a President who actually tries (usually in secret) to destabilize other countries.
- rayiner 2y agoBecause Obama was fully co-opted by the neocon institutions. If you had told them about it during the Bush era liberals would have been outraged. The creators of South Park literally made a movie mocking the neocon ideology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_America:_World_Police https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_America:_World_Police
- sudosysgen 2y agoYes, the Democratic party was coopted by neocons since Bill Clinton. That's the point of my comment, it has nothing to do with Trump.
- kadoban 2y agoYou're taking the word of a liar as gospel truth, and you're attributing responses to "liberals" from nowhere. Which "liberals"?
- leereeves 2y agoIt sounds like he knows personally what USAID did in Bangladesh.
- rayiner 2y agoI’m from Bangladesh and my dad worked his entire career for USAID contractors, since the 1980s. Many of our family friends are career USAID people. My dad can’t be sure but he strongly suspects Trump is correct. USAID was commonly used as a CIA/State Department front in the past. It became more professional in the 1990s, but according to him Samantha Powers heavily politicized the agency. And the US administration has been going crazy about third world countries aligning themselves with Russia.
- jajko 2y agoWell, whats your point? All spy agencies including russian use similar movements to destabilize enemies, it was true during whole cold era. Is this somehow shocking to anybody? US agencies did much worse things in pursue of eliminating communism, in US and elsewhere.