Psst, this is good actually. Even if he's doing it for the wrong reasons, disrupting CIA operations is a net win.
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What isn't good is the end of billions in aid to stop people from starving and provide medical aid to underdeveloped areas, which is something real socialists generally support.
VOA is/was a propaganda media broadcaster and does/did not provide aid. USAID provides/provided aid, and that aid was the carrot portion of the carrot and stick method favored by neolib imperialists. Gain influence with aid while ensuring US dominance over local natural resources and governments.
Is that what VOA and RFA are doing?
Good news!
They got privatized by Reaganites!
They'll still be in operation! So it's just the charity and "genuine good will" stuff America won't be doing anymore.
What are you even talking about? Are you saying that the US government doing evil is better than EvilCorp doing it? Or are you saying that the government can't do good without also doing evil?
I'm saying that the propaganda will continue but the aid will not, and your goofy ass is cheering because America Bad.
You're the goofy one if you think that public vs private propaganda is a binary phenomenon, or that you can't have aid without interference. Of course I'd prefer pure aid, but Trump would be canceling that too! I'm just also happy he's undermining US Intel ops, because yes absolutely, America bad.
Of course China and Russia is celebrating this. They simply don't like radio stations that tell their subjects the truth (Well, at least a kind of truth that is closer to reality than their own media).
...it's an American propaganda outlet
According to who?
Previously, the CIA themselves.
"The Committee for a Free Asia’ in 1951, sanctioned by the National Security Council and with the knowledge of Congressional Oversight Committees, supported by covert indirect CIA funding, the Committee had been created to help find ways to contain and expand private U.S. contact and communication with people of Asia following the establishment of Communist regimes in China and North Korea. The emphasis was on a private instrumentality that would be privately governed and have the freedom and flexibility to do things the government would like to see done but which it chose not to do or could not do directly."
"The question has been asked: 'Why a Radio Free Asia?' It is proposed to answer that question in terms of our objectives in the Far East and the effectiveness of radio in accomplishing them … Apart from its covert propaganda usefulness to the United States, RFA proposes to speak to Asia in the vernacular of Asia and about the things with which Asians are most concerned. It proposes to assist and encourage Asians in fighting Communism and establishing or recovering their dependence by spreading the truth in Asia about Asians.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/cia-and-committee-free-asia-under-project-dtpillar
Russian. Asset.
Pretty crazy the US is dismantling it's apparatus for controlling the world by itself. The Soviet Union could only dream of this month.
This is putins implementation of the kgb plan as he was a kgb agent. Trump was a kgb asset named krasnov since 87
A new world order is being installed in which Sociopathic Oligarchs run the world, instead of nations, and governments do their bidding.
And yet there are so few of them... and 8 billion of us.
Why should we let them rule us?
Because they have all the money and weapons, and once they are fully in global control, they won't have any problem murdering wide swaths of population. Reducing the global population is a basic tenet of the Sociopathic Oligarchs' philosophy. Krasnov's closest advisor, Kapo Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller has said that he wants to reduce America's population from 330 million to 100 million.
They want just enough losers to be their servants, and the rest are just taking up space and consuming resources, and will be eliminated. If the enough resistance gets pesky enough, they'll just destroy entire cities, and everyone in it. How many cities would they have to level before everyone else would not just get in line, but make sure others around them are in line as well?
In that case, if they're gonna kill us anyway, why not go out taking them down too?
Exactly.
Pot is happy kettle no longer competing with it.
Fellow authoritarians need to help each other.
it's called class solidarity and the elites have it
What do you think VoA even is?
state sponsored propaganda established to erode all communist ideas in order to erode authoritarian communism (along the way propping up classic fascism, a side mission of creating VoA). the problem is that VoA wasn't authoritarian enough for the new american government's fascist stance. not enough people are realizing the dissolution of VoA is not something for us anti-authoritarians to celebrate because what's coming to replace it will be much worse
the replacement is probably just death squads
Pretty sure they're gonna replace it with some privatized bullshit, which will be "worse" but also way less effective because it'll be cost-cut to shit.