every part of the US government has been used as a front for clandestine activity. USAID also actually carried out an overseas aid mission.
It hasn’t been replaced with a non-CIA-fronting overseas aid department.
It hasn’t been replaced with a non-CIA-fronting overseas aid department.
USAID was shut down on July 1st. Somehow people have survived without it for nearly 2 months. It just goes to show you how critical the "aid" it provided was.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258953702...
Estimated impacts, to be sure, will take time for actual studies. But the activities USAID was responsible for were far more than just ‘the bare minimum’ to provide cover.