How is this even controversial?
If I am regurgitating CIA brainwashing.
Then I guess China must have fallen decades ago and everything was bread and circus on a global scale.
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How is this even controversial?
If I am regurgitating CIA brainwashing.
Then I guess China must have fallen decades ago and everything was bread and circus on a global scale.
No, they say that for strategic reasons. Why interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake - type shit.
If you thought seriously that it was the truth, this entire time, then you are a personally brainwashed individual.
I would have done the same in their place. Imagine thinking you're about to confront a weakling, only to realize too late that you've been sizing up a beast the whole time, like stepping up at 5'10", 70kg, only to find out you're facing Brock Lesnar in the flesh.
nowadays Elon musk is just pure entertainment. he brings the clown out of alot of people in the US.
I think he just got bored of just having money and doing nothing else so he decided to troll people.
I actually differ on this topic, in the context of living in the US for decades and understanding various angles from within or outside. To think like Mearsheimer as an excise of geopolitical analysis without any bindings or burdens, there is no sufficient evidence that says USAID has failed US. You may argue USAID has failed the American public, in terms of scope/level of corruption, but I doubt you have sufficient data to argue against the net benefits US (the country) has accrued since USAID was conceived. I am not auguring in terms of moral or social standards. In the United States, if you took out its raw capitalism, everything would not make sense any longer. People pledged allegiance to the constitution only and alone, but people came to the country, at the very first time, not for the greatness of its constitution.
That being said, I don't think China will ever practice like that, for its historical traditions and conventions. I don't think the Chinese public would accept that regardless of the net benefits the country might have gained. But I am convinced now that the American public actually have taken its net benefits for granted without knowing it or acknowledging it, which is one of the great ironies of our time.
It is entertaining watching all those threads related to DOGE in general and USAID in particular. But it is US media vis-a-vis US politics, which has become a national sport rather than a national statecraft.
Just saying I would support cooperating with the US on dismantling NATO and the EU. At least while Trump is POTUS. Simplify future calculus by eliminating a player from the game. With Russia, the US, and China pressuring from all angles, Europe will crumple like a cardboard box.
Cherry picking to pick a pointless internet fight is what you are trying to do. China has already fallen. It was actually an US puppet state for a global reality TV show. According to what you keep trying to imply. The US is the largest economy as I said before of service and debt. The fact you are in severe denial over this is incredible.
Adding this so I don’t have to make another post. The US economy is measured in US dollars, which is more valuable than other currencies as the global reserve. That will naturally distort the image of the global economy. Making the US the largest economy. They are the largest by quantity which I don’t know why this is so controversial to say.
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So this is what happens when USAID is cut, the China dissidents just say whatever they want now
Isn't sedition a crime in the UK?
We have all become crayon eaters...
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If NIH and NSF reduce overhead from ~55% on individual extramural grants to 15%, all research institutions in Georgia will die. And everywhere else, too.
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Cost of opportunity. USAID helped defeat other countries, until it cannot. Then it lives as a self-propagating parasite that eat away potential for growth. Once it meets an opponent resistant to toppling, it gets stuck. And there is no changing strategy because those benefit from USAID will fight any change in strategy.
Once you analysis from a higher dimension than immediate cost/benefit, you will understand its harm.