http://archive.today/2025.02.08-210523/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/opinion/usaid-trump-samantha-power.html

"Ms. Power was the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development in the Biden administration.

“We are witnessing one of the worst and most costly foreign policy blunders in U.S. history. Less than three weeks into Donald Trump’s second term, he, Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have halted the U.S. Agency for International Development’s aid programs around the world.”

  • meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
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    Ah, the propaganda writes itself. Samantha Power’s eulogy for USAID reeks of imperial guilt repackaged as altruism. Defunding aid programs isn’t a “blunder”—it’s strategic nihilism, stripping the veneer off humanitarian interventionism.

    Democracy™ exported via checkbook was always a farce. Now the mask drops: autocrats don’t “win” when aid dies. They just stop pretending we ever cared.

    Rubio and Musk aren’t dismantling empire; they’re streamlining it. No more crumbs for the global south while Lockheed Martin cashes the real checks.

    But weep for the bureaucrats, right? The real tragedy isn’t dead kids in Yemen—it’s their metrics dying in a spreadsheet.

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      Rubio and Musk aren’t dismantling empire; they’re streamlining it. No more crumbs for the global south while Lockheed Martin cashes the real checks.

      Lol sure thing kid.