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Re:Grok Code Fast 1 by jameshart on Friday August 29, 2025 @04:03PM (#45068761)
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.

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Re:Grok Code Fast 1 by dlachausse on Friday August 29, 2025 @05:13PM (#45069445)
It carried out just enough of an aid mission to run cover for CIA activities. As an example it nominally supported farmers in Afghanistan, except the "farmers" were opium producers.

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.

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Re:Grok Code Fast 1 by jameshart on Friday August 29, 2025 @05:27PM (#45069590)
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

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.

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