• @Maggoty
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      62 hours ago

      It’s the organization that manages all of the official external humanitarian aid from the US government. It does everything from food distribution to micro loans in developing countries.

    • @finitebanjo
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      143 hours ago

      It provided funding to Ukraine, Irsael, and Egypt among other things.

      Now it provides funding to Israel and Egypt.

    • @[email protected]
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      3115 hours ago

      It’s a CIA front that mascarades as an aid organisation. Part of the US’ soft power projection. I’m guessing for all their talk about hating China, they’re really keen on China taking on the role the US has been playing since WWII, as they’re simultaneously doing their best to undermine the US dollar as the global reserve currency.

      • @Maggoty
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        72 hours ago

        How does this have 36 votes? It’s ridiculous.

      • @[email protected]
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        122 hours ago

        You think that the CIA pretends to be an international aid organization for the sake of advancing the interests of checks notes… China? The 3-letter agency that has spent decades building and maintaining American hegemony is now serving that same purpose for a rival nation? And the people that have also spent decades building for this moment to take over the federal government entirely… want to now give their power away? … what?

      • @ProtecyaTec
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        512 hours ago

        Why do you think they would be keen to release power to China? Economics?

        • @RememberTheApollo_
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          92 hours ago

          Because trump views ties as weakness. He thinks isolationism is strength. The exact opposite is true - our ties and treaties, both hard and soft power - have ensured American strength for a century.

          Trump is going to set all that ablaze because he can’t think further than his own experience: fuck everyone else to get ahead.

        • @SoftestSapphic
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          9 hours ago

          Trump is keen on doing it because he’s being told to do it by the people who control him.

          Russia and China are allies and in BRICKS. Russia paid for Trump to get elected twice.

        • @[email protected]
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          2010 hours ago

          They’re not doing it on purpose. The people currently making these decisions do not understand the government, what it does, why it is powerful, where the money comes from, etc. It’s like someone stripping the copper wiring out of their own house.

        • @[email protected]
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          311 hours ago

          I don’t know, the American Empire basically exists to serve billionaires like him, I don’t see how a Chinese takeover would serve them, as they just disappear billionaires if they don’t get in line.

          I guess they just want to turn the USA into what Russia is now, but even there you really don’t want to get on Putin’s bad side or you lose everything. It’s honestly very irrational IMHO, as the US has the right mix of opportunity and lack of any personal risk for the wealthy. They want to turn the US into a crime ridden shithole where they’re beholden to the whims of Trump or whomever follows him.

          • skulblaka
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            13 hours ago

            Each of them personally wants to be Putin and cannot comprehend the idea that they won’t be at the top of the pile when the ashes fall.