Regarding USAID
Some analysts misleadingly believe this signifies the empire collapsing on its own terms.
I do not see the attack on USAID as a strategic retreat. Not at all. I see CIA cutouts whose covers are burnt going back under the State Dept for more efficient use of the same destabilizing tactics, albeit without the transparency of a website where you can see which projects they fund to subvert a country.
We’re going back to the cia running all those miscreants directly without the good-deeds window dressing.
This is a way to replace soft power with hard power. When soft power is needed, the same tactics will be deployed under some other NGO or what have you.
I don’t see trump facilitating the collapse of empire on its own terms.
We have Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico, looking to take Greenland, threatening Panama to take over the canal, Syria overtaken by terrorists serving US interests, and the Zionist imperial outpost monstrosity reenergized with Trumps rabid Zio administration. He also has a bellicose eye on China, Iran, and S America.
This is big power competition, not an acquiescence to a multipolar world.
And now there is project Stargate, tech bro oligarchs (all beholden to the Pentagon), pulling out of UNHRC, and Trump talking about the idea of US owning “that piece of land” in reference to Gaza.
Something else is afoot. And we have to remember the whole Covid thing when ALL counties were using the same unscientific and authoritarian playbook.
We have an overextended imperial monstrosity merely looking to extract more money from its vassals, albeit, in true Trump character, sans all the niceties.
No. When the empire starts shutting down military bases, then I’ll believe it’s pulling back or collapsing on its own terms.
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Here is Brian Berletic’s take:
No, the Trump admin isn't dismantling USAID.
USAID is now directly under US Secretary of State Marco Rubio who spent years as part of the USAID/NED regime change complex advancing US aggression and political capture abroad.
Before Rubio became Sec. of State he was on NED/USAID subsidiary IRI's board of directors doing the very things people mistakenly believe he and the Trump administration will "stop."
The US isn't changing course, it's doubling down.
