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.
Are they really America’s adversaries now? I thought America’s adversaries were now primarily Canada and Mexico, and also the EU.
America is now Friends with Russia, Orban etc.
America’s adversaries under Trump are
- Countries that undermine his brand of neofacism through being democratic or slightly leftist
- Anyone he feels like bullying
You forgot Panama and Greenland.
Musk killed USAID because they were looking into the Starlink Contracts out in Ukraine.
Hint: its not good to shutter soft power
All the evidence is that Trump has no concept of soft power. Elon Musk probably doesn’t get it either. It requires a certain sophistication of thought and ability to understand how other people function that these men lack.
It’s Christmas time in the Kremlin. Putin’s been a naughty boy but that doesn’t matter anymore. The rebel alliance doesn’t stand a chance against the empire.
So, the GOP and Elon?
They are just. the tools, like Trump.
