I predicted about a week ago — which was not some kind of Nostradamus-tier divination — that we’d only just begun to see the geopolitical fallout from the DOGE revelations due to what USAID has been doing across the globe in the name of promoting Democracy™.
Since then, many more nation-states have publicly and loudly denounced the American government’s nefarious social and political engineering projects through USAID.
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Backing up, this pushback has been in the pipeline for a very long time. Based on multiple conversations with everyday people on different continents, I know this to be fact: the world has long been aware of the degenerate social engineering projects bankrolled by neoliberal technocrats at USAID, and they don’t appreciate them.
Russia kicked USAID out over a decade ago.
Via BBC, Sept. 19, 2012 (emphasis added):
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced it will close its offices in Russia following an order from the authorities there to cease operations.
The Russian government gave the US until 1 October to close the mission, accusing it of meddling in politics.
USAID has worked in Russia for two decades, spending nearly $3bn (£1.8bn) on aid and democratic programmes.
The expulsion follows a government crackdown on pro-democracy groups.
"The decision was taken mainly because the work of the agency's officials far from always responded to the stated goals of development and humanitarian cooperation. We are talking about attempts to influence political processes through its grants," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
The reason, however, that smaller, weaker countries didn’t at the time is precisely because they are smaller and weaker.
They understood well the fate that befell Muammar Gaddafi and so many others who defied the edicts of former State Department girl-boss Hillary Clinton, and took it as the warning that it was.
They bided their time, therefore, until an opportune moment came around to give USAID the same boot that Russia did.
That time is now.
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Via The Guardian (emphasis added):
For authoritarian leaders worldwide, the agency’s dismantling represents a potential retreat of American democratic influence.
In Hungary*, the Trump-allied prime minister, Viktor Orbán – fresh from December meetings with Trump and Elon Musk – celebrated what he termed the end of “globalist Soros” organizations.
El Salvador’s leader, Nayib Bukele, joined in, accusing the agency of funding “opposition groups, NGOs with political agendas and destabilizing movements”.
In Belarus, that country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, framed Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze as a response to his calls for a “reset” of bilateral relations.
Nicaragua’s state media, controlled by the family of the president, Daniel Ortega, declared that “Trump turned off the faucet” for what they labeled “terrorists”.
Venezuela’s interior minister, Diosdado Cabello, announced plans to investigate the agency, alleging that the “primary elections of the Venezuelan opposition were paid by the USAid”.
And in Azerbaijan, authorities had already pre-emptively refused to renew their cooperation agreement, explicitly challenging the agency’s political motivations.
*Hungary is a democracy; Viktor Orban is the legitimately elected leader of that democracy, a fact not disputed by the State Department; he enjoys almost a 60% approval rating.
Nonetheless, corporate state media in the West relentlessly smears him as a “dictator” simply because he believes in national sovereignty and not allowing USAID to defile his country’s civil society with “humanitarian aid” like funding for transgender operas.
The liberal world order is dying a long-overdue death. Rachel Maddow and Co.’s protestations are its death rattle.
