Source for the description of USAID activities in South Africa

2012-2017.usaid.gov/news-information/frontlines/50-years-and-food-security/mission-south-africa

February 03, 2025 - 12:36 UTC

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How long before this page gets taken down?
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archive link, for the inevitable: web.archive.org/web/20241219003211/https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/news-information/frontlines/50-years-and-food-security/mission-south-africa
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@skyview.social please unroll
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Someone mentioned that USAID is used as cover for US agents. And that Musk is always looking for something to sell (/repay) to his friends in Russia/SA.
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Weโ€™re watching the country be driven to the brink of ruin by people who are only in it for power and profit. Itโ€™s astonishing how people can ignore everything they knew about Trump, his character, and his history, and still elect him. It speaks volumes about the moral decay we are witnessing.
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Treachery may have more than one explanation.

USAID is also a valuable and high-return source of American soft power.

Anyone interested in reducing US standing worldwide and creating gaps for our adversaries to move in would also applaud this shutdown.
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Bingo
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I genuinely believe there aren't enough crayons in the world to explain the concept of soft power to these people.

And because they don't understand it, it *must* be useless.
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Yup. From WSJ today.
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We can no longer lead with this current administration.
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Yeah Trump posted on Truth that theyโ€™re cutting off aid to South Africa specifically because of anti-apartheid actions
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China must be cock-a-hoop.
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Him trying to hurt USAID because he's a racist mad about the end of apartheid is deliberate.

Him diminishing American soft power and reducing the US's worldwide standing is just him being a useful idiot.
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Also, a USAID position is sometimes used a cover for a particular three letter agency thatโ€™s interested in the goings on outside of the US.
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The greatest soft power and alliance building machine ever created
bsky.app/profile/chrononaut.bsky.social/post/3lh7v6aps7c2u
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IF you were genuinely concerned about the increase of Chinese influence in the world, then dismantling USAID is absolutely the WORST policy one could pursue.
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Itโ€™s exactly the kind of thing a fifth column would do.
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1st, fuck Elon.
2nd, please ask some South African freedom fighters on the other side of US-sponsored guns about the role of USAID, I bet theyโ€™ll have some different stories than the official USAID line.
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First. Then first. After first.
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It appears there really is a Pik Botha Mafia at work, and it includes Musk and the apartheid leader's family.
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Add in the public attack on the Lutheran Family Services this weekend, which is an attack on the ELCA. The ELCA had significant impact on the SA Anti-Apartheid movement. africanactivist.msu.edu/recordFiles/210-849-21052/JBPMJbrochure.pdf
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