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When the Republican government of Ronald Reagan abandoned the Afghanistan fighters after the Soviets left. There was no assistance in rebuilding their government or society. Just silence and pride in the CIA for training Al-Qaeda. 20 years later they helped take down the World Trade Centre.

USAID wasn’t a covert agency. That’s fiction. Its workers weren’t spies, and its food aid wasn’t cover. One Cuba scandal doesn’t rewrite 60 years of clinics, meals, and vaccines. Say you hate foreign aid—but don’t invent the CIA with a rice bag. It’s false. All of it.

I am not inventing anything And have some information to support my statement. Please do nit be so vitriolic it doesn;t fit here and is the reason i left twitter

A lot of Americans don't care about helping other people in the world in need. Hell, they don't even care about helping their fellow Americans. But the other aspect of this is the loss of American influence worldwide. Next time we ask for support, we should expect a lot less than after 9/11.

>USAID didn’t fail. It was an extremely successful program that used soft power to limit the influence of Russia & China. Why is it that nearly everything Trump does benefits Russia while harming the USA?

Because Trump is Agent Krasnov, and has been since at least the 1980's. He is doing exactly what he was instructed to do by his Kremlin masters.

...and those deaths will be directly dealt by withholding meds or ending life saving procedures midway through or by ending food banks in the world's poorest places. Those children will be killed indirectly by ending Pres.Bushes' very successful PEPFAR program, the fight to stop HIV.

theguardian.comObama and Bush call Trump’s USAID closure a ‘travesty’ as report warns of 14 million extra deathsFormer presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush and singer Bono send emotional message to staff as organisation closes

Elon Musk helped kill USAID not to save money—but to erase empathy. The man who builds rockets for billionaires cheered as HIV meds were ripped from dying kids. This isn’t innovation. It’s necropolitics dressed in tech hype. History will remember who stood by—and who profited.

I hope that every billionaire, hello Bozos, ZukerFeck, Muskrat, who lobbied for tax breaks and every law maker who facilitated the tax break rots in eternal hell on earth, so we can all see them experience the same pain they have mercilessly exacerbated.

when you unnecessarily gut key programs that would prevent diesease and natural disasters from sucking the life blood out of a country, such moves will find a way to comeback and haunt us at the worst time. when you can't feed or house people, your country is already dead, it just doesn't know it.

The Rs were never pro-life and the fact they still claim to be despite their willingness to inflict intentional harm on Americans and Immigrants through every possible means only attests to their immeasurable capacity for hypocrisy.Their lies however are in vain for the truth is etched in the 1/

stories of people they let die through wilful mismanagement and malevolent deeds and of people they have yet to kill. From FEMA to air safety to NOAA and much more every fabric safeguarding Americans is being shredded in a relentless attack on your country. The Domestic Threat that the regime 2/

Take this as a warning, so far it has been in lands far away, where we dont look at it first hand. Get used to it. It's gonna get up close and personal. Coming to a community close to you soon.

HOW MANY TIMES has "trumpy dumpy aka EL PAYASO DEMENTE" & his SHUFFLEWALKING/SATAN-INFESTED/NAZI MAGA goons SCOFFED/RIDICULED/COULD HAVE CARED LESS when ICE NAZ MAGA-gestapo MASKED goons SEPARATED IMMIGRANT MOTHERS/FATHERS from their CHILDREN & INFANTS & ELDERLY PARENTS? OWN UP TO IT NAZI GOONS!

"Soft power" was not only effective, without the only thing we do as a country that can even arguably be called good is to send weapons to people fighting fascism, and at this moment we have stopped doing even that.

SHAME on your country! The problem is that when this is all over (& it WILL, BUT in about 50yrs or so) History will show tha USA cannot be relied on - ever! Some knowledgeable people say it may be up to 100+years (5 or more generations)!! I am sorry for all your people

yeah, a major shift occurred in 2016 that has doomed us so we must resist their attempts to diminish and eliminate the middle class and the poor. July 3, 2025 was a sad day for America.

A gigantic issue here is that MSM only covers d ginormous amount of BS that’s flooding d nation from Cheeto & company. They aren’t able to cover all of it. They know that covering Cheeto’s blabbing will result in higher ratings and $$$!

The forceful removal of every member of the Republican party from goverment would save millions possibly billions of lives over the next 3 and a half years.

Trump’s policies caused children to starve to death. It was the most despicable act of cruelty in the history of our nation. USAID was the lifeline of those Children.

Cruelty is the point. The main objective. Perpetuating racism, misogyny and sustaining the oligarchy status of billionaires are the secondary goals. The only hope for us is to resist and shine a bright light on the “leaders” who legislate in the dark, deflect and distract. Then we revolt.

“They didn’t just end an agency. They ended a legacy that said American power could show up not as an empire, but as a neighbor. Not to conquer. But to care.” The America I knew is gone.

Not just USAid, the same thing within the regular domestic food system / supply. Most companies and other enterprises will rather let it rot or dispose of it than even give it away. Greed! A small portion is donated or repurposed to other organizations. Food insecurity is a domestic problem, too

That’s trumps fault. Can someone with good data skills start a “Trump deaths” tracker and include these and all the people dying from USAid dismantling? Also anyone who died in ICE custody and the MN democrats murdered by trumper. I bet it’s over 500 already. And throw in measles deaths too.

This is the same tube, but they used to rip away NASA’s funding. Now Elon has extortion over US-All space program. Oligarchs want to invalidate everything except themselves for the hopes of capitalizing. Don’t be the oligarch’s next meal! Oligarchy is the problem! They take without contributing!

It is okay if people have valid criticisms. An organization wanting to help respond to issues across the globe is going to have successes and failures. Not quite sure, however, what the government means by the statement...

, " Foreign assistance done right can advance our national interests, protect our borders, and strengthen our partnerships with key allies. Unfortunately, USAID strayed from its original mission long ago. As a result, the gains were too few and the costs were too high."

Costs {do they mean financial costs?}. It was less than 1% of the budget. Did not protect our borders, was that a mandate? It certainly was not when it started. It was to use soft power to counter the Soviets.

Done right can advance our national interests. I would imagine stopping diseases in other countries, so they don't come to America is in the national interest. If it was not, so what. Not everything has to be so tribal. Something can be good even without national interest.

trump and most right wingers don't understand the idea of soft power. They don't see how helping other people can grant one power, especially if they aren't really seeking it, they only see power as something that can be gained by beating down others violently.

On June 30, 2025, Obama called the dismantling of USAID “a colossal mistake.” Bush said it saved 25 million lives. Bono mourned: “They called you crooks… when you were the best of us.” No ticker-tape. No farewell. Just silence as something precious was buried. 🔗 www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

politico.comBush, Obama — and singer Bono — fault Trump’s gutting of USAID on agency’s last day“Gutting USAID is a travesty, and it’s a tragedy. Because it’s some of the most important work happening anywhere in the world,” Obama said.

Shameful, this admin is filled with some of the most cruel, ruthless people that appear to have no conscience of what harm they are bringing not only to our country, but the entire planet.

I am embarrassed to be an American over this. There was absolutely *no reason* but cruelty to do this. But then cruelty is the point with this administration. #CrueltyIsThePoint

Helping people to have better lives and opportunities in their own countries is an active way to work for peace, and to reduce the need for people to seek asylum in other countries. Axing programs like that will kill people (reflect on that pro-lifers), destabilise nations, and create refugees.

I was on a cargo ship delivering rice to Tanzania. After 5pm the locals would come out with pieces of cardboard, small brooms, paper bags, whatever was available, and sweep whatever was left on the dock. They waited for maybe a cup of dirty rice. That's what food meant to hungry people.

They directly caused the slow starvation deaths of children. Think about that! Read about how one dies of starvation‼️ Then think about infants, babies& children going through that. Then think about their parents and siblings having to watch that‼️ I’m sick 🤢 to my stomach just writing it out!!

America since Jan 19th has quickly moved past Israeli as the most despised nation on the planet! With 5 1/2 months, Canadians dont have confidence to cross the border. We dont trust Trump, His Congress, 112,000,000 MAGAs and Americans too! All in 167 days

Trump is elderly fucks give zero fucks about the kids they just want the money because these frauds just want to be enriched through another fraud scheme Trump you hypocritical knob shite deserve to be deleted from this world you pathetic clown

Amen. It was an agency with a mission, staffed by people with a heart. Not always the easiest bureaucracy to work with but, the results mattered. Former FSO, US AID Kingston & Managua, consultant to missions in Peru, Central America, the 'stans of the former USSR, Indonesia, Ukraine, Russia.

When did American's forget that being the biggest comes with responsibility? How can we have so much and look away from the people with nothing? But the are doing it internally by pulling away snap and medicaid. America, we used to be the good guys

That's exactly why it was the first thing they killed. They didn't try to save money. They want to eradicate the very idea it stands for because it is the opposite of what they want. Musk went on Joe Rogan and literally said "the West's greatest weakness is empathy". Their tax bill does the same.

Exactly. USAID wasn’t cut for cost—it was eliminated for meaning. Empathy, solidarity, public good—those were threats to a project that worships extraction and calls it reform. When Musk calls empathy “a weakness,” he’s just saying the quiet part of their foreign policy out loud.