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  • So your issue is just that the left/right categories are very broad to the point of not being that useful.

    You’ve basically said; why do Christian conservatives in America, support the Holocaust?

    Then everyone’s gone… what do you mean?

    … and your answer is “well, the German Nazis in 1942, and the American Christian conservatives are both on the right”.

    Or “why are all these dogs meowing?”… Dogs and cats are both animals, so same thing right?

    No, not really. So you’re being downvotes because of your lack of nuance.

    Why are far left communists pro-Russia… Is a very different set of assumptions than “why are leftists all supporting dictatorships?”




  • The United States Agency of International Development… Is also a big part of how the CIA pays for the maintenance of the American world order overseas, which benefits America, and goes against the interests of places like Russia, and China.

    From Wikipedia:

    U.S. national interests

    Congress appropriates exceptional financial assistance to allies to support U.S. geopolitical interests, mainly in the form of “Economic Support Funds” (ESF). USAID is called on to administer the bulk (90%) of ESF[67] and is instructed: “To the maximum extent feasible, [to] provide [ESF] assistance … consistent with the policy directions, purposes, and programs of [development assistance].”[68]

    Basically that’s jargon for, we do CIA stuff to maintain US interests. Gotta fund protestors in Russia or Iran? The money is probably going through USAID. Rebels in Chad? That’ll be USAID money. Fund Israeli scouts to patrol the oil rich Golan Heights in Syria? CIA to USAID to Israel.

    Without USAID America’s ability to effect events overseas will be diminished, allowing other players a greater amount of influence, for their global interests.