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Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Throws Russian Civil Society Into Crisis
Moscow Times ^ | 1/30/25 | Mack Tubrity

Posted on 02/03/2025 6:34:54 AM PST by hardspunned

The Trump administration’s abrupt freeze on foreign aid has plunged exiled Russian NGOs and media outlets into uncertainty, jeopardizing their funding and posing what some are describing as the greatest challenge to Russian civil society since the Kremlin enacted its “undesirable” organization law a decade ago.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a sweeping directive last Friday, pausing all foreign aid for 90 days. The move aims to give the Trump administration time to review which programs align with the president’s “America First” agenda and determine which should continue receiving U.S. funding. Organizations have been issued stop-work notices on existing projects, along with a suspension of further disbursements.

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TOPICS: Government
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What a glorious spectacle! Here we have a USAIDCIA stooge front “media outlet” bemoaning the fact that Trump is in the process of firing his disinformational ass.
1 posted on 02/03/2025 6:34:54 AM PST by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

That ninety day freeze needs to turn into ninety centuries.


2 posted on 02/03/2025 6:36:58 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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All across the world, “free” money grabbers are bemoaning that their “free” money spigot flows no more. Of course, it is never an attack on parasites and such, but like the shrinking WaPo’s “democracy dies in darkness,” it is posturing. They want to suck on the teat, and the teat is dry. Sounds a bit like a country tune....
3 posted on 02/03/2025 6:38:52 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: hardspunned

Russia started off helping to defend Donetsk and Luhansk against years of attacks. Rearmed by the US and NATO, in the week leading to 20 February 2022 Ukraine launched a full offensive against the two provinces, documented by OSCE throughout that February. Only then did Russia launch the SMO. Now Ukraine has lost far, far more than when it first spread its anti-Russian coup against Donbass.


4 posted on 02/03/2025 6:42:53 AM PST by Jumper
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Significance: no more US-financed coups against elected governments opposing the Democrat/EU axis.


5 posted on 02/03/2025 6:44:19 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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I didn’t know the Russkis had a “civil society”.


6 posted on 02/03/2025 6:46:03 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If Trump gets elected, we're all going to hang.- Hillary "The Wanderer" Clintoon.)
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To: cgbg

What Kenya has to say about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsf7AZ8gk4o

😁


7 posted on 02/03/2025 6:47:07 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

We have no “civil society” in our city either, just crooked Democrats.


8 posted on 02/03/2025 6:48:10 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: hardspunned

Why is the USA giving so much money to the rest of the world? I would like to know just how much this involves! I’m for stopping all of it.


9 posted on 02/03/2025 6:49:35 AM PST by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT!)
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To: SMARTY

He kept it short and sweet. 😂


10 posted on 02/03/2025 6:51:38 AM PST by OldHarbor
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“Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Throws Russian Civil Society Into Crisis”

Seems EUROPEAN-BASED Moscow Times still has enough funding to keep their spewing their garbage.


11 posted on 02/03/2025 6:51:44 AM PST by BobL
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To: SMARTY

Outstanding video—thanks.

There are two kinds of black leaders:

—Those who want black people to become hard working and self-sufficient (this guy for example)
—Those who want to hate whitey while demanding money from whitey


12 posted on 02/03/2025 6:52:20 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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“I didn’t know the Russkis had a “civil society”.”

Ever been to a US city, or for that matter even a European city these days?


13 posted on 02/03/2025 6:53:31 AM PST by BobL
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To: hardspunned

Agitprop hit hardest.


14 posted on 02/03/2025 6:57:22 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat. )
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I know what you mean. Primative, barbaric primates are roaming around free everywhere,


15 posted on 02/03/2025 6:57:25 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If Trump gets elected, we're all going to hang.- Hillary "The Wanderer" Clintoon.)
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To: OldHarbor

VERY sweet


16 posted on 02/03/2025 7:00:36 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

No, these CIA recruited and paid goons are generally doing DC’s dirty work from abroad. This particular “Moscow Times” stooge operates out of Amsterdam.


17 posted on 02/03/2025 7:03:22 AM PST by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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To: I want the USA back

Globalist power grab!


18 posted on 02/03/2025 7:04:04 AM PST by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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“Ever been to a US city, or for that matter even a European city these days?”

Don’t have to go. There are hundreds of YouTube videos from all over the USA; destroyed cities large and small on multiple channels. Nick Johnson, Hoods N Hollers, Joe % Nic’s Road Trip are three of them.


19 posted on 02/03/2025 7:04:50 AM PST by rxh4n1
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Ever been to a US city, or for that matter even a European city these days?

"Kids are you noticing all this plight?"

20 posted on 02/03/2025 7:07:39 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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