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Even if foreign aid were being sent to these countries, it would still be a bad thing to those very people as it would be disrupting their local economies.
Luckily, they are not sending foreign aid. They are instead sending money to develop the social, political, and economic infrastructure to facilitate bribery, terrorism, corruption, revolution, and at best: mechanisms for intelligence operations against the people and governments of those countries.
All the Left sees is "AID", the rest of us can read "Agency for International Development", and then anyone who actually cares can read about what they actually do.
It's helpful when commentators mention USAID's origins being established in the 60s to peddle influence and undermine communism.
Then when the Soviets fell, the agency switched its focus to peddling liberal democracy influence, which soon morphed into exporting our own gay race communism agitprop.
Zero chance it was ever used to undermine Socialism, and a low chance it was used to undermine Communism.
I'm sure it was meant to help the intelligence agencies establish infrastructure, but that's way different from undermining Socialism/Communism.
Check out the book "None Dare Call It Treason" published prior to the 1964 election. The John Birch Society was pointing out the enormous amount of funding that was going to Socialist and Communist governments even then, while we actively (openly) opposed Communism. Infiltration in the US State Department was rampant according to the Venona Records (30% of their employees were informants one way or another to the KGB).
I guarantee you that the purpose of the agency (at large) was to develop Democratic/Fabian Socialism. That was opposed to Communism, but only just so.
That's why I always make a point to call it the correct name U.S.A.I.D. Saying "Aid" is the newspeak trick.
Lefty commentators very deliberately call it US"AID" when it should be pronounced U S A I D
It's an acronym, not a word, and it has fooled a lot of lefties.
Sometimes I like to read random boring documents to learn more how the world works. One that really stands out to me was a diplomatic cable regarding foreign aid. The program in question was related to some sort of women's health program in Africa, and discussed how it would establish a funding stream into the region.
Yup. It's never even meant to help anyone generally. It's a financial infrastructure project for propaganda funding, influence peddling, and intel recruitment.