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former USAID disaster response chief
I thought USAID is more or less a CIA front? At least I remember people here posting that back when it was defunded.
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Yes but they also did things like this to launder their reputation and give themselves just enough credibility as an aid organization to get their foot in the door of other countries to then facilitate the CIA stuff.
It's like billionaire philanthropy, it doesn't cost much to them, but it's great PR move. Amerikkka will bomb you, steal your resources, sanction and starve you, but they'll give you a band aid to help you out.
In this case, USAID just footed the bill for NASA to do all the work. This is typically the way they laundered their rep as well, by just paying for someone else to do it.
Konyndyk, who led USAID’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic under the Biden administration
So this was the guy telling Filipinos that the Chinese vaccine was poison, right?
That looks like it came from the DoD:
The U.S. admission followed a June 14 Reuters investigation that revealed how the Pentagon launched a secret psychological operation to discredit Chinese vaccines and other COVID-19 aid in 2020 and 2021, at the height of the pandemic.
Through phony internet accounts with tens of thousands of followers meant to impersonate Filipinos, social media posts decried the quality of face masks, test kits and China's Sinovac shot. As a result of the Reuters investigation, the Philippine Senate Foreign Relations Committee launched a hearing into the matter and sought a response from the U.S.
add it to the death toll of capitalism
"Trump admin"... ok