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asadm • yesterday at 5:06 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

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orwin • yesterday at 5:15 PM

USAID was a vehicle for US intelligence. That said, it also helped a lot where it operated. Especially helped logistics and local administration tasks for NGOs which could be extremely bad at those two tasks.

Also USAID existing prevented NGOs to have too much local political power and the corruption that goes with it.

My opinion is that overall, USAID was a net positive, although in some specific cases it wasn't.

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scottLobster • yesterday at 5:14 PM

And DOGE decided to deal with that cancer by blasting it with a shotgun and leaving the patient to bleed out

superxpro12 • yesterday at 5:35 PM

the russian servers must be back online

ck2 • yesterday at 5:10 PM

just a reminder that tons and tons of food and medication that was ALREADY PAID FOR

was purposely left to rot in warehouses instead of being distributed

six months ago the NY Times documented half a million deaths attributable to the destruction of USAID

by now it's easily a million, slow-motion murdered

may you never suffer to death like those million that could have been spared

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