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Trump freezes funding to terrorist sponsor National Endowment for Democracy (www.thefp.com)

submitted 1 week ago by AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml to c/worldnews@lemmygrad.ml

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On February 2, Musk posted on X: “NED is a SCAM.”

The whole article is great in that it admits to a ton of crimes of the NED while desperately trying to frame it as a good thing.

Main news won't even put the acronym on the headlines, see NYT.

It's very ironic that austerity madness is what is finally killing these exporters of neoliberalism. Somebody should X at musk to cut all funding for the University of Chicago too.

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[–] AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm of so many minds in this, no idea how to feel.

Worst case scenario, this is actually a plan by the intelligence fuckers to cover their backsides better. The global south and any leftist worth a thing is now well aware and wary of anything that has to do with the NED. This could be a way to supply funds to their fascist puppets with even less scrutiny and notice.

I'm really hoping this is just the bourgeois dictatorship putting itself through interesting times. Decades of anti-communist propaganda accrued to a debt to truth, wouldn't it be wonderful if they've fallen for their own deception and that debt is due?

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago

A lot of this stuff Trump is doing could just be vengeance for his first term. USAID funded a bunch of journos who shit over Trump's rejection of the neoliberal order. DoE has a bunch of public sector unions. DoJ was responsible for some embarrassing legal defeats.

The levers of power were designed to resist being pushed with force, so he's just unbolting them from the floor instead.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think this is definitely part of some kind of retrenchment initiative: cut back on the imperial overextension, place the regime change machinery under more direct intelligence agency/state department control, and stop wasting resources on secondary fronts and instead focus on the main enemy which is China. However, in the meantime, the regime change apparatus is in considerable chaos during this transition period and a lot of things are coming to light that are helping to clean out some of the US's various tentacles across the world. It is unclear whether the plan will succeed as they envisioned it or whether they have irreparably damaged the entire system with this sudden shock. For now i think anti-imperialists should see it as an opportunity, a temporary weakness that can be taken advantage of, but also staying wary of what the next step will be after they reorganize and recover from this chaotic reboot of the regime change machine.