Elon Musk says he and Trump are shutting down USAID
Musk announced the planned closure of the foreign assistance agency early Monday morning on social media.
Do they actually know what USAID does? Or do they just hear the word "AID" there and think it must be destroyed?
Musk simply lacking understanding of how imperialism works is plausible, but could also be a purge.
Lmao Elon believes the lies USAID tells everyone about itself, instead of its' true purpose
lol that's precisely the vibe I'm getting here
First the imperialists came for other imperialists while acting like they were coming for radical opposition and I said nothing because I was very confused.
(I know they've been gunning for more than that, let me have my dark humor joke. 😛 )
But to be more serious, could this be part of a broader attempt to restructure imperialism in different hands / consolidate personal power? Or just "I believe my own bullshit" administrators hurting themselves in confusion?
I think we need to wait and see to get an answer to this. Musk has been managed by intelligence for a long time. It's unlikely they would be totally blindsided by him dismantling a major tool of there's. If they were blindsided, then their will be a corrective action taken.
One possibility is that he's still just as ignorant but they steered him towards doing this. Perhaps USAID was infiltrated and they couldn't fix it. Or perhaps it was reaching the end of it's usefulness. Or they needed to reallocate and they needed cover for it.
Another possibility is that there are camps and factions in the bourgeoisie that have some manifestations in the structure of the state, and USAID was an agency that was associated with one of those camps, and the Trump presidency is representative of another camp. This would just be territorial consolidation and discipline in that case.
Yet another possibility is that they intend to shift the operations of the USAID and NED back under the umbrella of the CIA and the State Department, removing the layer of separation and plausible deniability but also getting rid of any accountability or obligation for public disclosure that these orgs may have nominally had. They are foregoing soft power in favor of going back to more direct imperialist means.
Or to put it another way, the myth of liberal humanitarianism has outlived its usefulness. The majority of the world isn't buying it anymore (except for us here in Europe, we're the only idiots in the world who still buy that con), so you might as well just admit you are only pursuing self-interest at the expense of everyone else. In a way that is liberating if you're the kind of imperialist that Trump and Musk are.
