Georgia is in a grim state. Once vibrant, welcoming, and hopeful, it has become a country where peaceful protesters are beaten and journalists are branded as traitors. Over the past year, the ruling Georgian Dream party has stifled civil society and media with its foreign agent law, extended its reign
  • @DarkCloud@lemmy.world
    5•8 days ago

    Yep, USAID was the primary funding body for the CIA to direct certain flows. Has served that function for over 60 years… Probably longer.

    Edit: Don’t know why I’m being downvoted, clearly people are unaware what the United States Agency for International Development is responsible for.

    From their Wikipedia article:

    U.S. national interests

    Congress appropriates exceptional financial assistance to allies to support U.S. geopolitical interests, mainly in the form of “Economic Support Funds” (ESF). USAID is called on to administer the bulk (90%) of ESF[67] and is instructed: “To the maximum extent feasible, [to] provide [ESF] assistance … consistent with the policy directions, purposes, and programs of [development assistance].”[68]

    That’s jargon for; we fund overseas actions and grouos that serve our interests… Eg. Stuff the CIA is responsible for administering. This is why Trump went after USAID. They’re anti-Putin.