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2025-02-03 Government Corruption
USAID secretly funneled $5 billion in 2014 to ignite riots in Ukraine


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Posted by badanov 2025-02-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11144 views ]  Top

#1 Is this why most USAID workers were informed they would be fired?
Posted by 3dc 2025-02-03 01:22||   2025-02-03 01:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Musk's DOGE takes aim at 'viper's nest' federal agency with global footprint
Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-03 01:33||   2025-02-03 01:33|| Front Page Top

#3 "....revealed that USAID was actually a CIA front."

There surely must be some mistake.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-03 02:19||   2025-02-03 02:19|| Front Page Top

#4 ^^ Must be the "six ways from Sunday" thing...
Posted by badanov 2025-02-03 03:00||   2025-02-03 03:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Incidentally. The story of Kievan Rus being the precursor of Ukraine has one (really minor) snag: the second most important city in Kievan Rus was Novgorod.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-03 03:10||   2025-02-03 03:10|| Front Page Top

#6 
hummmmm! 2014 says RFK.
Who was running DC things back then?
Posted by NN2N1 2025-02-03 06:49||   2025-02-03 06:49|| Front Page Top

#7 The same folks that were running DC over the last 4 years, NN2N1.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-02-03 06:52||   2025-02-03 06:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Musk says 'criminal organization' USAID is beyond repair and $50 billion agency will be shut down
Posted by Frank G 2025-02-03 07:57||   2025-02-03 07:57|| Front Page Top

#9 
Posted by badanov 2025-02-03 08:31||   2025-02-03 08:31|| Front Page Top

#10 I don't know what it is, but I cannot get over this nagging feeling that the current Rus vs Ukr war was an engineered event.
Posted by SteveS 2025-02-03 10:17||   2025-02-03 10:17|| Front Page Top

#11 My take as well Steve. AFG war stops, Ukie war starts up. No missed production for the Military Industrial Complex.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-03 10:26||   2025-02-03 10:26|| Front Page Top

#12 Why do people say the previous government was neutral? There is a solid reason why he fled to Moscow. Belarus is co-opted as a client state of Moscow. Moscow wanted the same arraignment with Ukraine. Given the long history of Ukrainians suffering under central Russian domination I can understand why they wish to remain independent. The CIA effort if anything balanced out Moscow's effort to maintain Ukraine as a client state.

Why is this view wrong?
Posted by Difar Dave 2025-02-03 11:11||   2025-02-03 11:11|| Front Page Top

#13 USAID closes HQ to staffers Monday as Musk says Trump supports shutting agency down
Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-03 11:20||   2025-02-03 11:20|| Front Page Top

#14 CBS anchor defends ludicrous USAID spending on trans operations and atheism overseas
Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-03 11:59||   2025-02-03 11:59|| Front Page Top

#15 Rubio made acting administrator of USAID, ABC reports
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-03 12:13||   2025-02-03 12:13|| Front Page Top

#16 Secretly!?!?!?!? Ha.
Posted by mossomo 2025-02-03 12:29||   2025-02-03 12:29|| Front Page Top

#17 Why is this view wrong?

Because it's none of your damn business. It's not like the US doesn't have its own puppet regimes all over the world. It's called a sphere of influence and when we try to move in on Russia's, the Russians fight back. And we lose. Biden and his handlers miscalculated.

Don't try to call it fighting for freedom or democracy or any of that bullshit. It was a power play and a boondoggle for the Military Industrial Complex. The power play didn't work but I'm sure the boys in the MIC are still quite happy with the result. American taxpayers, not so much.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-02-03 12:57||   2025-02-03 12:57|| Front Page Top

#18 The payoff is in the ripoff, and the things nobody saw.
Posted by Crusader 2025-02-03 13:41||   2025-02-03 13:41|| Front Page Top

#19 This is stupid Russian propaganda, and btw the protests started in 2013.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-02-03 17:28||   2025-02-03 17:28|| Front Page Top

#20 Aboutthose $5bn

"But the expenditures have decreased substantially over the years. It was still $195.6 million in 2011, but that had shrunk by 2014 to just $86.1 million. Only in 2015 did that figure rise a little."

And RFK Jr. talking about Yanukovich being "the first democratically elected... in Ukraine.

Please.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-02-03 17:44||   2025-02-03 17:44|| Front Page Top

#21 Its amazing how many are under the impression this org has to do with aid.
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-03 20:32||   2025-02-03 20:32|| Front Page Top

#22 ^ They were going to call it the US Agency for International Money Laundering, but no one could come up with a catchy acronym.
Posted by SteveS 2025-02-03 21:08||   2025-02-03 21:08|| Front Page Top

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