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That was the CIA not USAID. So this would be like disbanding Ford because VW was cheating on their diesel emissions. --- Look, making the government more eff

That was the CIA not USAID. So this would be like disbanding Ford because VW was cheating on their diesel emissions. --- Look, making the government more efficient is a good idea. That's not what's being done. The government is being shrunk so it's not capable of doing thinks like ensuring people like Musk/Bezos actually pay the appropriate tax rate. Or ensuring that factories don't enmass dump their toxic waste into drinking water. The cover story is efficiency; the easy way to tell this is the GSA itself has proposed (prior to Trump) ways to save over 55 billion and DOGE isn't doing them.

somenameforme 2y ago
Regime change operations regularly utilized USAID and NED (which, in turn, was often itself funded by USAID) to foster social instability, back opposition forces, and just generally cause chaos. For one particularly absurd instance in more contemporary times, here [1] is USAID trying to cause civil unrest in Cuba and instead ultimately just creating a honey pot for the Cuban government. Note that article is ~11 years old - it's not just a justification for contemporary actions. [1] - https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/04/03/cuban-twitter-and-other-times-usaid-pretended-to-be-an-intelligence-agency/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/04/03/cuban-twitter-and-other... (archive: https://archive.is/IQl36 https://archive.is/IQl36)