With federal funding paused to USAID, pro-Western media outlets from Ukraine to Nicaragua are panhandling for donations, and a multi-billion dollar regime change apparatus is in panic mode. Among the flurry of executive orders issued by President Donald Trump in the first days of his administration, perhaps the most consequential to date is one titled, “reevaluating and realigning US foreign aid.” Under this order, a 90-day pause was instantly enforced on all US foreign development assistance across the globe – […]
  • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    39·
    12 hours ago

    I think the Georgia part is the most significant here. The collapse of the Georgian regime change effort, even if from a temporary pause in funding (layoffs and project cancellations are hard to reverse) pretty much eliminates all chance of Georgia being turned into Ukraine 2.0 in the near future.

    Setting up more regime change efforts, if that’s even something the trump admin will aim for (they are not so rabidly anti-russia) will take more time, and they would require another causus belli to show up in the meantime to take advantage of. Trump might have made Georgia secure for at least the next 4 years.

      • MLRL_Commie [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        27·
        7 hours ago

        Does Ukraine seem very healthy? I’m going to not just do the “dunking” thing for a comment because I was inspired by one of our comrades here earlier today. So think deeply about this: does Ukraine seem healthy and like a good place to live? Look at their treatment of migrants in the past 10 years, and their loss of popularity among a significant portion of the population (enough to sustain a civil war. Even if you think Russia is fully behind that, the population in much of the Donbas still supported it). An illegal coup in 2015 (regardless of whether you support it, it was extrajudicial and that is a sign of lack of a healthy society). Right now, they are fighting a losing battle while picking people off the streets, totally unwillingly, to die on the front lines while their supposed allies just slowly allow justtttt enough weapons through to keep that cycle going. That can’t be good and is not something anyone should ever want to repeat.