• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    9 days ago

    USAID is a US soft power tool to fund militant groups, regime change, project US dominance/dependency and to destabilize nations who don’t fall in line. Any good it did was accidental.

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      It was also a soft power tool used to assist and feed allied countries and keep diplomatic support from the good it did with starving and otherwise vulnerable populations. It’s not a net loss, but it is not a gain either. Its disappearance hurts millions of people who depended on the aid to feed their families or support basic economic production.