• cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I mean, it's not like this is in any way a secret. Obama's mom worked for USAID within the state department.

    Not all of USAID is covert operations, but covert operations almost always have USAID involved one way or another. The situation in Bolivia has very deep ties to USAID where the recent coup was far from their first attempt at this stuff as they tried to split the country into 2 by promising to fund the more ancestrally European half of the country in the east post split.

    Probably the best example of the kind of work USAID is involved with was during the height Afghanistan war, the US government spent 10s of billions of dollars building roads to connect the entire country in the hope that it would help their puppet government control the country and take down the Taliban.

    Essentially their job is when a country is in shambles, use economic and soft power tools to rebuild it in a way that advantages the US, but a lot of the time this involves communicating willingness to help before any coup happens and that's when the CIA is involved.