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The US seems to no longer have an overseas aid program. The Institute of Peace got shut down. Data protections at the social security administration were breached. https://time.com/7312556/doge-social-security-data-whistlebl...

Oh, and some asshole threw a couple of Nazi salutes at the president’s inauguration.

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US AID and the Institute of Peace were CIA fronts. Good riddance to them.

https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/cias-secret-grip-on...

Also, watch the "Nazi salutes" clip in its entirety from a non-biased source. He is excited that Trump won and is awkwardly gesturing while saying "my heart goes out to you" in celebration and thanks to the voters. Even the ADL said it wasn't a Nazi salute.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5097676-elon-mus...

every part of the US government has been used as a front for clandestine activity. USAID also actually carried out an overseas aid mission.

It hasn’t been replaced with a non-CIA-fronting overseas aid department.

It carried out just enough of an aid mission to run cover for CIA activities. As an example it nominally supported farmers in Afghanistan, except the "farmers" were opium producers.

USAID was shut down on July 1st. Somehow people have survived without it for nearly 2 months. It just goes to show you how critical the "aid" it provided was.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258953702...

Estimated impacts, to be sure, will take time for actual studies. But the activities USAID was responsible for were far more than just ‘the bare minimum’ to provide cover.

Institute of Peace you say? It couldn't sound more like double speak could it? Similar to the DDR.

What kind of an argument is that? ‘That’s just the sort of name they would choose if they were trying to cover up that they are evil!’

Yes - it’s also the kind of name they would choose if they were an institute dedicated to diplomacy.

In this case it really is Orwellian double speak. They were a CIA front that was used to support their regime change operations.

War is Peace indeed.

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