This administration is destroying US soft power in a way that no rival could ever have imagined possible. The big winner here is China. DOGE? Absolutely perfor

This administration is destroying US soft power in a way that no rival could ever have imagined possible. The big winner here is China. DOGE? Absolutely performative. Even things like USAID are a trival amount of money and miss the point that it's a very cheap way of getting influence. Plus I'm sure there's some CIA money buried in there too. Abusing the power in such a trivial manner like suspending this account does nothing but hasten this downfall. It's always worth adding that 20+ years ago the US passed a law colloquially known as the "Hage Invasion Act" [1], which not only authorized but requires the US to invade the Hage if ever any US servicemember are brought up on charges to the ICC. And this extends to servicemembers and leaders of allies. Empires don't die quietly or quickly. This is going to be long, drawn out and chaotic. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...