Driving the news: Iran’s government has seemingly welcomed the agency’s overhaul and freezing U.S. foreign aid, with state media reports suggesting the moves will cut off support pro-democracy activists, APreported.

  • Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev praised Elon Musk — Trump’s righthand man who has led the charge against USAID — for “trying to plug USAID’s Deep Throat.”
  • Russian ultra-nationalist Alexander Duginpraised the USAID’s takedown as a “critical blow to globalism” in the right-wing outlet Arktos.
  • Flying Squid
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    374 hours ago

    Are they really America’s adversaries now? I thought America’s adversaries were now primarily Canada and Mexico, and also the EU.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      204 hours ago

      America is now Friends with Russia, Orban etc.

      America’s adversaries under Trump are

      1. Countries that undermine his brand of neofacism through being democratic or slightly leftist
      2. Anyone he feels like bullying