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.
I gather Trump is cutting costs and plunging the economy to close up shop. So good luck with your individual states, the loose federations, and the Robber Billionaires.
Maybe because Elon lost 30 billion by harassing Carlos Slim, lost $22 billionaire alone in StarLink contracts... So is this him being paid for use of his name in the process of harassing other countries?
Still, I suppose they're embezzling a lot more than they're saying.
He threatens to invade places like Greenland or Canada because it normalizes what Russia did to Ukraine.
The only reason he doesn't invade them is because he thinks he wouldn't survive the politics of doing so back home.
Perhaps near the end of hos "term" he'll try something then site the conflict as to why the US isn't going to have an election.
... he'll point to Zelensky and say "so it's fine when he postpones elections for a war, but not me?" - Russia might hack a few things to give his claims of election insecurity appear valid.
"We can't hold elections due to the fact we're under martial law, and due to the hackers from the other side, and due to the on going conflict. For these reasons and more, the election is being postponed." - Donald Trump, 2028
You think the gubberment is the problem, think we can know when house prices are too much for families to afford, but can't possibly know the same to figure out appropriate price caps, think we can't have centralized federal laws, that "people should be able to build what they want, where they want when they want"... and that developers should be given family homes when they become too expensive so they can "replace them with apartments".
Look bud, we've seen these pro-Capialist libertarian "free" market solution already. Lots of what you've said has gotten America where it is today: to an unlivable oligarchy.
People want something different. I'm fine with Georgism, but the rest of what you've written is clearly thinly veiled Libertarian and Free Market economics.
You're just reproducing the ideology that benefits people like Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk - putting the wealthy in power.
I'd prefer a highly regulated, legally transparent, auditable, government system in power. Not people rich enough to build apartment blocks whenever and where ever they want.
Your ideas are incorrect and we're seeing that in realtime.
Libertarians like you are LYING when they say centralized systems are doomed they're too inefficienct the most obvious way to disprove that idea is to look at the world wars, what happens to industry during world wars? It gets NATIONALISED. Centralized under government power, we do this in war time because it's highly efficient - despite the free market propaganda you've swallowed whole.
Where as Libertarian become traitors and mercenaries in war time. You may not realize it, but you're arguing for the wrong team (are we the baddies? Yes, you are), the team that lets Nazi in, and if they have enough money, sits them in the position of advisors and department heads right next to the president.
We want democracy, rights, the freedom of a garanteed place to live... By putting that in the hands of people with "no price caps on building anything anywhere" you're looking to destroy that freedom. You're taking security from the poor and exchanging it for freedoms exclusively for the rich who can afford it, developer cartels, and corporations.
So you're just reproducing the system we're already in... That's not a solution. That's just reproducing the problem.
They use their profits from the house sale (which may be substantial depending on how long they've been there + market inflation), to rent somewhere.
That nest egg (which they've been paying into all this time) would give them breathing room and time to recover and get back on their feet to try again at a more stable point in thier lives.
It's a win win because the mortgage payer gets a lump sum, and space to reassess what went wrong. The state bank gets the unpaid percentage of the home's sale price, and then to sell the house again (under a new rent to buy mortgage arrangement).
P.S Part of how this works financially is that most of the money in an economy is created by loans issued from banks, those banks then buy Government Bonds periodically... A state bank would be another entity doing much the same thing, just with a specific purpose in mind.
Tying the mortgage repayment rate to the median salary of a single individual would go some way towards fixing things then, but that would mean putting price caps on houses which would devalue the currency and also need anti-cartel laws (eg. Laws mandating a maximum amount of homes one can own, as cartels might see artificially low prices as an opportunity to buy up more houses).
Artificially constraining parts of banking and all of residential real estate is likely to have other unforeseen effects on the economy, but may still be worth it.
Another alternative is starting a state bank in which citizens can be part of a rent-to-own mortgage, with minimum but achievable life time repayments. If they don't meet those minimum payments, the house is sold and the profit from the sale is portioned out between the state bank and the mortgage payer in proportion to how much % they paid off.
That's a win win, as theyre probably getting a big cash payment when struggling, and the state bank then gets to relist the home.
Which will mostly impact Canada and Ukraine. Other nations will suffer economic losses, which will cause periods of global instability. Most will have to adapt to the new multi-polar world and watch to see how quickly and how far America slides
Will democracy return? Will the Fascism escalate? We'll see.
I know they split hard on trans rights six years ago, with the UK siding with TERFs, but it's starting to feel like each nation that has an outlet under the masthead needs to be more clearly defined.
It seems to occasionally veer right on issues, and I won't be surprised if it's eventually center-right. Shocking timing to be this way though.
You'll use whatever Vlad tells Trump to tell you to use.