Mike Ritland

OOD or whether it's the Bureau of International Development at State, people are going to be tempted to do this. We have... This is like... God and the devil. This is like, there's an eternal struggle here. And sometimes the moral area can look great. Sometimes different elected governments are going to have different defined national interests about what governments to deploy US soft power in.

OOD or whether it's the Bureau of International Development at State, people are going to be tempted to do this. We have... This is like... God and the devil. This is like, there's an eternal struggle here. And sometimes the moral area can look great. Sometimes different elected governments are going to have different defined national interests about what governments to deploy US soft power in.

And it's going to look to one side like it's freedom fighting, one side of the American electorate like freedom fighting or liberation. It's going to look to another side like regime change, coup mongering, and black ops dirty tricks. That will always be there, as well as the potential for profiteering or for doing that –

And it's going to look to one side like it's freedom fighting, one side of the American electorate like freedom fighting or liberation. It's going to look to another side like regime change, coup mongering, and black ops dirty tricks. That will always be there, as well as the potential for profiteering or for doing that –

And it's going to look to one side like it's freedom fighting, one side of the American electorate like freedom fighting or liberation. It's going to look to another side like regime change, coup mongering, and black ops dirty tricks. That will always be there, as well as the potential for profiteering or for doing that –

you know, index finger trick in the domestic thumbie war of a fair fight of two, you know, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, whatever it is, whoever can weaponize the blob can take out their domestic political opponent.

you know, index finger trick in the domestic thumbie war of a fair fight of two, you know, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, whatever it is, whoever can weaponize the blob can take out their domestic political opponent.

you know, index finger trick in the domestic thumbie war of a fair fight of two, you know, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, whatever it is, whoever can weaponize the blob can take out their domestic political opponent.

And we need, so what I would like to see happen is during this education process, while everyone is learning about the sheer extent of it, and we are just begun to peel the onion on this, is that in whatever stage of, The aid function continues to... The critical thing is putting in a Smith-Munt style protection for funding and operations.

And we need, so what I would like to see happen is during this education process, while everyone is learning about the sheer extent of it, and we are just begun to peel the onion on this, is that in whatever stage of, The aid function continues to... The critical thing is putting in a Smith-Munt style protection for funding and operations.

And we need, so what I would like to see happen is during this education process, while everyone is learning about the sheer extent of it, and we are just begun to peel the onion on this, is that in whatever stage of, The aid function continues to... The critical thing is putting in a Smith-Munt style protection for funding and operations.

Smith-Munt was supposed to protect us from foreign propaganda or... distributed inward. And even that was destroyed by Barack Obama's presidency with the NDAA modernization that removed that protection. So we are now completely Smith-Mutton-less than we have been for 12 years.

Smith-Munt was supposed to protect us from foreign propaganda or... distributed inward. And even that was destroyed by Barack Obama's presidency with the NDAA modernization that removed that protection. So we are now completely Smith-Mutton-less than we have been for 12 years.

Smith-Munt was supposed to protect us from foreign propaganda or... distributed inward. And even that was destroyed by Barack Obama's presidency with the NDAA modernization that removed that protection. So we are now completely Smith-Mutton-less than we have been for 12 years.

But there's something even worse going on with USAID, which is the Smith-Mutt problem of foreign propaganda rigging the domestic information ecosystem. But this is for funding and operations. USAID's function can fund U.S. organizations for their international work, and now they are pumped up on steroids with their capitalization for their domestic work.

But there's something even worse going on with USAID, which is the Smith-Mutt problem of foreign propaganda rigging the domestic information ecosystem. But this is for funding and operations. USAID's function can fund U.S. organizations for their international work, and now they are pumped up on steroids with their capitalization for their domestic work.

But there's something even worse going on with USAID, which is the Smith-Mutt problem of foreign propaganda rigging the domestic information ecosystem. But this is for funding and operations. USAID's function can fund U.S. organizations for their international work, and now they are pumped up on steroids with their capitalization for their domestic work.

And also, their foreign operations can target U.S. citizens, like we mentioned with the OCCRP example. How are there no criminal penalties passed by Congress?

And also, their foreign operations can target U.S. citizens, like we mentioned with the OCCRP example. How are there no criminal penalties passed by Congress?

And also, their foreign operations can target U.S. citizens, like we mentioned with the OCCRP example. How are there no criminal penalties passed by Congress?