Moscow welcomes USAID’s upcoming dissolution, and has joined a curriculum of strong leaders, announcing a victory over an organization that he has long been a vehicle of US political interference. Offered on.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova on Thursday described USAID as “nothing but aid, development and aid agency” and instead “the method of changing governments, political decree” Declared. [and] The structure of the state. “
For authoritarian leaders around the world, the end of the agency represents a potential retreat of US democratic influence.
In Hungary, Trump is fresh from the December meetings with Victor and Bin-Bin-Trump and Elon Musk, who celebrates it, which he “declared”Globalist Soros“Organizations.
El Salvador leader, Neb Bokly, Included in.Accusing the agency of “opposition groups, non -governmental organizations, accusing them of financing political agendas and unstable movements.”
In Belarus, the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, frozen Donald Trump’s foreign aid As a response On their demands for “reset” of bilateral relationships.
Nicaragua’s official media under President, Daniel Ortiga’s family announced that “Trump closed the faucet” for which he labeled “terrorists”.
Venezuela’s Home Minister, Davidado Kabilo announces agency investigation plans, To blame him “The basic elections to Opposition to Venezuela were played by USAID”.
And in Azerbaijan, the authorities already existed Predictively refused To renew their cooperation agreement, clearly challenge the agency’s political motivations.
USAID’s budget is estimated Approximately $ 43bn Of the US Federal Budget, and funds, the frozen globally, indicate a potential earthquake change in soft power dynamics.
The reaction of the authoritarian governments is quite unlike rescue workers who warned that the deduction could rapidly lead to human and political crises.
Rescue organizations have warned of destructive losses in areas such as family planning and girls’ education, as well as the risk of increasing disease and famine.
In Uganda, where USAID provides more than 500m annual M in life -saving cooperation, President of this country, Meeting with Yoori Musione, In expecting US ambassador cuts in late January. In Belarus, organizations like honest people, who have worked to fight state propaganda, Faced to the immediate closure And can soon leave more than a dozen staff.
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The Associate Press said, “These essential efforts reduce the funding of dictatorships and the brave people fighting for freedom,” the founder of the Human Rights Foundation based in New York, Thor Holson, who The US government does not receive financial support, told the Associate Press. “These particular investments should not just be restored – they should be preferred.”
This dispute is blowing up in the United States with Congress’s research service Monday To join the Democrats in questioning Trump’s authority to close the agency.
But the question is, who – or what – can fill the falsehood, she is still ready to hold. Agency’s annual $ 1.9bn annually in Food Aid and Health Steps. Now it is in the flow, and it is unlikely that the European governments will pay full compensation for lost cooperation. For this reason, some analysts and experts are looking at China.
Some Republican leaders in Washington, such as Mississippi Senator Roger Vicker, Are also warning Eliminating this agency can give China a major strategic victory, especially in Africa and South America, in the pursuit of global influence.
“Things are getting fast,” Vicker told reporters. “We need a relief program to meet Chinese efforts, but it needs to be done in a way that the United States policy makers have decided to do it.”
