Did you know you could look up how much money the fed gov sends to other countries?
Did you know we send about 700 million to Colombia? The threat of not only that drying up plus having to pay tariffs would get that countries "on the take" politicians panties in a bunch!
Evidently theres a website that lists FED GOV USD sent to other countries By Country.
The below screenshot is for Colombia. Note the total to all agencies is noted to be about 740million USD.
If ever there was a way to coopt national governments and get them to do what the FED GOV wanted them to do it would be via FUNDING them and their cronies to do as told. Look at the above timeline and how it spiked over the SCAMDEMIC years!
Per the above evidently We give Colombia the most out of the other 25 countries in South America… so maybe THATS why they got picked for this little Showdown… so they could set precedence for other under paid countries the FED GOV wants to deport into so they Go along with the plans to keep their subsidies!
The WEBSITE for this FOREIGN AID breakdown is HERE.
You can select Other countries on the top left.
Lets have a look at Ukraine shall we? The below claims only 16 billion in aid.
How can 16 billion be correct?
Note that 17 billion was just for 2023. 2022 saw 18 billion sent. 2021 saw 533 million sent. And up till 2021, the 533 million appears to have been about what was consistently sent to Ukraine since 2001. For 2024 it notes just over 6 billion sent and incomplete data.
So 17+18+.5+6.4 is ~41 billion…
All the media articles paint the figure at being over 100 billion dollars to Ukraine just since 2020.
“How much money has the US given Ukraine since Russia’s invasion?
Since February 2022, the United States has allocated $113.4 billion in emergency funding to support Ukraine in wartime.
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So far, The United States has sent Ukraine over $60 billion in funding and equipment through military, economic, and humanitarian aid. Ukraine will have to repay some of these funds after the war, plus interest.
On February 13, 2024, the Senate approved the National Security Act, 2024. If enacted, it will allocate approximately $60 billion for Ukraine-focused initiatives. This funding plan earmarks at least $13.4 billion for replenishing Department of Defense inventories designated for Ukraine, $13.8 billion for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), and $1.6 billion in Foreign Military Financing for Ukraine and other impacted nations.”
So if the FED GOV sent 113 billion and UKRAINE reported only 16 billion as received, just where did the rest actually Go? Note that the 16 billion isn’t even all from the US, its showing only 9.2 billion as coming from the USA in the bottom left of the screenshot above.
Someone is LYING.
Where did the asserted funds GO?
Hows about we take a look at China only to see the FED GOV has been FUNDING THEM DIRECTLY WITH AID for the past couple DECADES. There was a reason the US moved factories to China and subsidized shipping back to the USA, but only shipping in that one direction. Trying to return something like a 3d printer that didn’t work to China saw shipping quotes priced at more than the total cost of the 3d printer itself including its shipment to the USA.
It looks like the peak annual aid to china was just under 100 million, and it peaked between 2008-2014 and today its down around 14 million.
Curiously the china graphic asserts Indonesia as the major recipient of AID funding from the fed gov, listing it in first place.
Curiously for Indonesia the primary spends are on something called:
$194.4M - MCC Infrastructure Investment Activity
MCC appears to be this “Infrastructure Project” that the US FED GOV has been investing in.
MCC stands for “Millenium Challenge Corporation”. What an odd name for a fed gov agency.
I’ve never heard of this agency, but there it is and it appears to be engaged in builds all over the world.
It appears the 3 types of grants are offered in sequence with review of the last grant being required before they offer the next and this is all meant to get these countries into the REGIONAL COMPACT level of compliance, which evidently the US FED GOV funds somehow.
The below shows Indonesia as having completed all 3 grant types.
Evidently just from this agency alone 17 billion was spent since 2004 to improve the conditions of electricity power and roadways in all these selected nations.
I don’t recall ever seeing the fed gov put to its tax paying constituents if it should be spending tax payer funds on projects abroad, regardless what the perceived benefits to the FED GOV are.
This attempt to homogenize the world is just another attempt to own the world, when these people aimed at these goals haven’t even conquered themselves.
If nobody else cares if things are finally called to account, then theres not much point continuing to point it out.
Frankly I’m getting tired of watching and calling out things that just Steamroll ahead with no review from anyone since most are to busy indulging only in what interests themselves instead of what should matter to every Tax Paying American.
I expect these posts will become more infrequent now. I’ve paid attention for 30 years and all its gotten me is an awareness of the bullshit that pervades all groups and people trying to form groups. I’m pretty much ready for my Siddhartha move to the River. And given how things have gone for me personally, I might be just as poor… and happy for it.
Best of luck to you who group up to have your way.
Simply ludicrous :( like floating counterfeit every thing/ no accountability is an understatement ugh!
"Trump's 90-Day Suspension Of Foreign Aid Might Counterintuitively Bolster Washington's Influence"
No... ya think? If DC went around with the MCC and got all these countries on the foreign aid tit, from 2000-2025, then of course they will DO AS TOLD or lose their handout.
"One of the Executive Orders that Trump just signed suspends some foreign aid for 90 days, specifically “development assistance funds to foreign countries and implementing non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and contractors”, in order to assess their “efficiencies and consistency with US foreign policy”. It remains unclear at the time of writing whether the State Department’s subsequent “stop-work orders” will affect military aid to Ukraine so that possibility won’t be covered in this analysis.
Most foreign aid programs have been exploited to meddle in other countries’ affairs by funding anti-government and even in some cases anti-state movements that later orchestrate Color Revolutions. Even if they’re not taken to that extreme, they at the very least create problems for the implementation of those countries’ domestic and foreign policies by artificially manufacturing grassroots opposition to them, which manipulates perceptions of their popularity and can thus influence national elections.
Such was recently the case in Georgia, which fended off a nearly-two-year-long Western-backed but superficially “NGO”-driven campaign against the ruling party. This was officially waged in response to their FARA-inspired foreign agents law but was really punishment for them pragmatically refusing to sanction Russia and open up a “second front” against it in the South Caucasus during Ukraine’s failed summer 2023 counteroffensive. Georgia can now rest a bit easier for the time being.
The same goes for the many African countries like new BRICS partner Uganda who’ve been aggressively pressured by American-backed “NGOs” into accepting the normalization of LGBT+ in contravention of their traditional values. As put forth in Trump’s Executive Order, “The United States foreign aid industry and bureaucracy…serve to destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse to harmonious and stable relations internal to and among countries.”
Observers also shouldn’t forget about India after the US meddled in last year’s elections despite their strategic partnership. Russia gave voice to India’s concerns at the time due to the sensitivity of India calling the US out while the political process was ongoing, after which the ruling BJP accused the State Department and the “deep state” of meddling in other matters last month. While independently financed Soros still remains a problem, the US government shouldn’t be one for now, to India’s relief.
Less political meddling and socio-cultural engineering, at least for the next three months, will be much appreciated by all those countries that have been targeted by “NGO”-driven Hybrid War.
The emphasis is on less of these efforts as opposed to their complete freeze since some programs might have enough funds left to partially operate during the interim while the Secretary of State can issue waivers for specific ones at his discretion. Some might therefore continue in full but most will be adversely affected.
The end effect is that American influence might rebound in the Global South since a large part of why many of these countries started turning away from the US since the start of the century was due to it violating their sovereignty by funding “NGOs” that meddle in their affairs.
If Trump reforms the US’ international lending strategy to remove political strings on aid programs, including from those institutions that it controls like the IMF and World Bank, then this process would further accelerate.
His promised imposition of more tariffs might trouble some of these same countries, but it’s not the same as coercing them into making political and socio-cultural changes against their will in exchange for emergency financial aid, which ultimately risks destabilizing them and later advancing regime change. This potentially new approach could restore some of the attractiveness in partnering with the US by partially evening the odds vis-à-vis its competitions with China and Russia in the Global South.
In the event that this comes to pass, then those two would be compelled to offer better deals to their partners in order to prevent them from being enticed by the US into accepting whatever it proposes, thus possibly catalyzing a cycle of competition that works to those other countries’ benefit. For that to happen, the US would have to treat its partners more as equals and less as vassals, but old habits die hard so this can’t be taken for granted even if Trump appears somewhat (key qualifier) interested in it."
URL:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trumps-90-day-suspension-foreign-aid-might-counterintuitively-bolster-washingtons