Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "What Everyone is Missing about US VP Vance's Munich Speech" video.

@jay90374 They do less damage when their funding is cut. But you have to always be alert to something else springing up in their place, or simply being re-purposed, as Trump is re-purposing an Obama program to create DOGE.
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@jay90374 We'll have to say. On the surface, they actually cut a lot of personnel. Almost all of USAID. But maybe they think they can exercise soft power a lot cheaper, and they're probably right. Look at how Soros leverages his billions by spending paltry millions in key areas (media, activist groups, NGOs, ...) For a couple million, he can have the biggest single voice in a multitude of places that can leverage opinions of a few and manipulate public policy. If little Soros can do the harm he's done to the USA, imagine what USAID can do in a small country with a few or 10s of millions. They've 100s of millions to throw around. Billions all told. USAID was bigger than the CIA and State Department, combined. Anyway, scaling it back and making it more efficient isn't a philosophical shift of any sort. Same with Israel Project. But it wouldn't take a philosophical shift to make fundamental change for the better in Palestine. We could continue our support of Israel and still push it very hard to end apartheid. If they want to just be left alone, they better figure out how to do democracy or the hypocrisy will choke them. I don't think the American people are going to tolerate foreign aid to Israel for much longer. If people want to donate to another country, that's their right. But it's not our federal government's place to send money, government-to-government. In the long run, it's always overtaken by corruption, and the end-justifies-the-means crowd have their comeuppance with the people who are sick of the means they employ for their lofty ends.
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