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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is bananas. As I wrote in a different thread, I'm an immigrant from subsaharan Africa and every single freaking person in the third world nations USAID controlled with its money knows that they are (were?) the "nice" face of the CIA. I am so glad Americans are finally waking up to this. We all told you for decades and there were news reports, but we were too poor and black and brown and foreign for you guys to care. Now that your fellow white men are telling you USAID is a shambolic front, you should finally listen.

The "Third World" or "global south" or whatever you want to call us poor black and brown people of the world need  the U.S. to stop all of its evil, exploitative policies that keep our countries in the position of needing aid. Charity is no substitute for justice.

Whether he is doing it for the right reasons or the wrong reasons, Trump is pulling back America's predatory hand and the rest of the world is breathing a sigh of relief. USAID gives with one hand, and takes much more with the other. Just go and let us sort ourselves out without the CIA constantly in the mix engineering regime change and using monetary policy to bind our nations financially so we have to prioritize what America wants. [/quote]

This is the Truman Show where America is Truman[/quote]
PP here. This is a great analogy.

The weirdest part is that Republicans are prepared to open their eyes. Democrats, however, are absolutely outraged anytime anyone or anything threatens to destroy their illusions and reveal what this country is doing on an hourly basis to sustain their lifestyles.

Imagine considering yourself progressive and knowledgeable and then thinking the money-laundering CIA front organization, USAID, is the hill to die on.

I get it if you guys are upset that federal employees who are close to vesting pensions and retiring have been summarily fired. There are definitely a due process issues in play there. But do not sit here and pretend USAID was not intended from the start to be a front through which American intelligence hid its misdeeds and puppeteering behind ostensibly generous aid programs.[/quote]

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