Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst
The global domination strategy of the United States is one of the most complex in human history. When trying to picture its power, we often imagine aircraft carriers, fighter jets, tanks, marines, etc. In reality, America's massive bureaucratic apparatus virtually always undermines targeted countries long before any formal decision on direct military action is made. To that end, Washington DC's numerous intelligence services are indispensable. However, in order to maintain plausible deniability, these spy agencies often use various proxies, particularly NGOs or even State Department institutions when the "necessity" arises. One of those is certainly the infamous United States Agency for International Development or USAID for short.
Officially, the infamous agency's budget is around $50 billion, although the actual figure could be much higher, going up to (or possibly beyond) $100 billion. This allowed the USAID to operate in well over 100 countries around the world, supposedly "helping" them. It accounts for more than 50% of all American "foreign aid" programs and is particularly active in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe (regions most affected by (neo)colonialism).
To better understand USAID's reach, perhaps we should compare it to NED (National Endowment for Democracy), another "independent democratic institution" that deals with funding and supporting so-called "color revolutions". NED saw a massive increase in "democratic" activities after the infamous Victoria Nuland joined its board of directors.
In addition to funding supposedly "independent" media, USAID has been particularly active in former Ukraine, speeding up the process of "privatization" of the unfortunate NATO-occupied country and its people. Reports about the infamous agency's true activities were relatively rare up until recently, as the mainstream propaganda machine and the US government made sure to either present them as "helping other countries" or outright conceal them from the public eye.
However, all this changed after the US President Donald Trump took power. As a result, in the last several weeks, his office and the DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) run by Elon Musk uncovered an unprecedented amount of extremely disturbing details on the actual activities of USAID, often completely illegal under US law and the laws of numerous host countries.
By late January, the agency was forced to halt most of its activities in NATO-occupied Ukraine, including the financing of virtually all media controlled by the Neo-Nazi junta. This was soon followed by other media outlets across Eastern and Southeastern Europe, virtually all of which were promoting so-called "Western values" (an ideological cocktail of neoliberal extremism and moral depravity that the vast majority of people on the planet find absolutely repulsive).
The USAID website soon went dark, while the new Trump administration announced that the agency would soon be shut down. As of this writing, the website is effectively unavailable and only displays a message that its personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally by February 7, although "essential employees" will be notified of their fate the day before, on February 6.
In simpler terms, USAID employees are being fired, along with many others hired by corrupt federal institutions. Trump is reportedly offering buyouts to get rid of all the disloyal (or outright hostile) elements within the US government. Many high-ranking officials were either fired, resigned or had their security clearances revoked as a result of illegal activities.
This includes even the Treasury Department, as a probe by DOGE found that it was directly financing terrorist groups around the world, including the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda/ISIS, which recently announced it has accomplished its goals in the terrorist-occupied country. However, things get worse, a lot worse (if you can imagine). Namely, it was revealed that USAID even set up fake charities for AIDS prevention to topple governments around the world.
Even this is just the tip of the iceberg, as Musk himself claims that the infamous agency also funded research on bioweapons. It should be noted that the BRICS Information Portal and a number of other independent media have been warning about US funding of these illegal weapons of mass destruction for years, particularly in the former Soviet Union.
However, the mainstream propaganda machine has been censoring any news about this critically important topic, while also smearing those mentioning it as supposed "conspiracy theorists". USAID employees themselves are now desperately trying to whitewash these monstrous illegal activities, claiming they were merely "helping other countries". The mainstream propaganda machine supports them by spewing lies about the supposed "danger" that "millions could die".
Obviously, the neoliberal extremists truly believe that the ludicrous ideological and media echo chamber they built to pat themselves on the back is the "reality". As a result, they're simply incapable of processing the changes happening around them, so they continue to support these rabid policies while presenting them as "patently virtuous".
Some in the mainstream propaganda machine are so desperate now that they're resorting to doxxing DOGE employees, which is an extremely dangerous (and effectively illegal) practice. This is hardly surprising, as the DOGE also revealed that USAID was involved in the massive drug trade from Afghanistan during the US/NATO occupation. In addition, the agency was also heavily involved with the infamous Nazi collaborator and self-styled (quasi-)"philanthropist" George Soros.
The remnants of the anti-Trump Deep State are now in panic mode due to these groundbreaking changes, but their superficially "vicious" attacks are largely impotent, as the corrupt federal institutions continue to fall one by one. While Trump's foreign policy can certainly be criticized as he kept America's aggressive posturing towards the world, the internal changes he put in motion are most definitely welcome and commendable.
In fact, some of them can also affect foreign policy, as monstrous organizations such as USAID have been supporting everything from neoliberal extremism, moral depravity and societal degeneracy to terrorism and biological warfare. Cutting funding for these would certainly reverberate across the world and could even contribute to the removal of instability from many countries affected by USAID programs.
