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I know it was a soft-power org used to help overthrow governments but was it also incidentally doing some good?

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[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

The food 'aid' was also market dumping to destabilize any local agrarian development iirc.

So yeah like that other poster said about it being a racket.