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      USAID wasn’t what you think it was. It was CIA front, and Trump didn’t shut it down so much as move its operations to Marco Rubio’s State Department.

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      Now do one about USAID.

      USA destabilizes a nation through bombing them or funding reactionary rebels and then comes in as the oh-so graceful white saviour of USAID to help the “uncivilized savages” who can not run their own country for some reason

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      USAID was a CIA project to keep underdeveloped colonized nations dependant on scraps of charity that came with enormous strings attached. Cutting its funding did have harm in the immediate sense but ultimately it is an organization directly beholden to the imperialist aims of the US.

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      Prepare yourselves, “centrists” trying to target apathy will be chiming this both sides crap straight up until midterms.

      It worked with Kamala.

      Don’t let it work again.

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        Kamala was quite literally the same as Trump, from Palestine to the Iran war. The “problem” with Trump is that he is incompetent(which is good) and for you, the worst you people hate about Trump is he does not pretend to have a mask on like the Democrats are doing, and even then they themselves are barely keeping the mask on anymore.

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          One could possibly imagine turning a blind eye to Palestinian suffering coupled with nice sounding words of sympathy, but there’s virtually no way the USA under Harris would have engaged twice in military adventurism in Iran. Even if she as President had a stroke causing her to take Bibi’s bait and start a war with Iran, she wouldn’t have alienated beforehand every single potential ally through tariffs and belligerent rhetoric, that most nations would provide the USA some token support which would keep it from being as disastrous for the USA as it is.

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            but there’s virtually no way the USA under Harris would have engaged twice in military adventurism in Iran.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48DxQTPOouU

            she wouldn’t have alienated beforehand every single potential ally through tariffs and belligerent rhetoric,

            Trump is just treating the US’ allies as they always has been; vassal states. He’s mask off and the vassal states can not do anything about it for that reason. It’s why Denmark won’t do anything but bark for their master when it comes to Greenland as an example.

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        Giving more importance to a foreign state and their genocide instead of her voters is what happened to Kamala. The fact that they are actually trying to push her through again is insane.