USAID is/was an octopus, with tentacles extending everywhere.
What did those tentacles do? First and foremost, they extended into the taxpayers’ pockets to extract tens of billions of dollars a year, transferring those dollars to organizations and agencies favored by the transnational elite. The projects could be anything from overthrowing a government or two to putting some spending money into the pockets of the favored elites.
A grain or two of rice might be given to some starving people for appearance’s sake, but that was hardly the point. The grift and the power were.
A perfect example is the case of Rory Stewart, a former Member of Parliament in the Conservative Party, a staunch “Remainer” with a rather plummy background that included everything from the Eton to Oxford to MI6ish stuff best not spoken of to politics to academia track. His father was…