Posted on 02/03/2025 9:45:44 AM PST by marshmallow
President Trump has promised to “make a decision” on USAID’s future after getting rid of the “radical lunatics” running it after DOGE chief Elon Musk said it was time for the “criminal” agency “to die.” Russia banned Washington’s long-favored soft power tool in 2012. Here’s why.
Russia knew about the US Agency for International Development’s “criminal” nature long before Elon Musk's epiphany.
USAID was expelled from the country after post-election street protests in Moscow verging on an attempted color revolution, with the agency accused of using its grant network to try to influence politics and civil society after the 2011-2012 Russian parliamentary and presidential elections.
USAID’s mission in Russia was narrowed to political influence operations in the 2000s, including funding for civil society groups like the Golos* election watchdog, the Memorial* and Moscow Helsinki Group* rights organizations, and others.
These organizations engaged in increasingly sharp criticism of the Russian government prior to the US aid agency's ouster, helping to radicalize a portion of the population toward more pro-Western opposition views through the popularization of their positions.
20 Years of 'Democracy Promotion'
USAID first entered Russia in 1992, immediately after the USSR's collapse, and spent nearly $3 bln over 20 years on ‘democracy, human rights and civil society promotion’ programs.
In reality, USAID’s work in the 90s was aimed at cheerleading the gutting of Russia’s social and economic system during the painful transition to a market economy, and meddling in politics in support of liberal, pro-West politicians against conservative, populist and neo-communist forces.
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DC is deeply offended at the idea that other countries do not welcome our people coming in and organizing anti-government movements designed to overthrow them. Yet, they go into hysterics trying to convince us Russia stole the election from Hillary.
There is no floor to the childishness, duplicity and depravity of DC.
USAID has been a CIA front for decades.
USAID is dominated by CIA ops as is the State Department.
USAID promotes socialist/communist values, not Christian values.
Democrats press conference to scream about the grifting being frozen. No videos of anything they say. People are dying without this money. ISIS guards walked off the job in Syria. It’s dangerous says the party who let terrorists cross our borders.
Because Russians know USAID is full of GloboHomoPedoNazis and they want 'em to stay in the US.
Bkmk
The part they’re not saying out loud is that USAID frequently is a thinly disguised cover for CIA operations. It’s like old United Fruit Company in Central America. Whenever you see one of their trucks, just take it for granted they’re spooks and you won’t go far wrong.
During the Soviet-Afghan War, USAID sent several 747s loaded with mules to Pakistan to be used for humanitarian relief. Within days of their arrival the Pakis had trucked the mules (and their lead “spotted pony”) up to the Khyber Pass and given them to the Afghani Mujaheddin, to be used in the war against the invading Russians.
Coincidence? Betrayal? More likely it was all according to plan.
And the Russian government has a far longer (and less forgiving) memory than the US’s.
How involved was Valerie Plame with USAID? Declassify her work records and see how complicit she actually was.
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