USAID, America First and Trump’s Big Stick Diplomacy

The Trump government budget cuts in and crackdown on the USAID, make sense from an “America First” perspective, and are generally a good thing for most of the world. However, it’s not as far-reaching and revolutionary as some would have us believe.

USAID is a key part of the NGO-industrial complex of imperialist infiltration that has been used by the State Department and the CIA to destabilise, overthrow and enslave sovereign countries around the world for decades.

From colluding with Zionists in West Asia to influencing elections in Latin America, and even being directly involved in the forced sterilisation of Native populations in Peru in the 1980s as part of a veritable ethnic cleansing campaign, USAID is part of the imperialist plot to keep the Third World down, sedated and dependent on the “goodwill” of the imperial core.

The gutting of this abomination is, for the most part, a good thing. Although it has already turned out that USAID will not actually be dismantled, but rather decreased, reoriented and significantly reshaped.

Trump has set a clear goal of making the US Empire look more inwards rather than risk total imperial overstretch as is the policy of the neoconservatives and Democrat liberals. It’s a “mind our backyard” principle, which is beneficial for most of the world. For the entirety of Eurasia and Africa, a more isolationist US comes as a divine blessing.

However, let’s take note that the “backyard” that Trump and his crew is talking about, is the entire American continent. Just like it was when the Monroe Doctrine was originally coined back in 1823, it is steeped in the Manifest Destiny delusion that all of the continent, from Alaska down to Patagonia, ultimately “belongs” under the suzerainty of Washington.

This, combined with the fact that Trump understands the need to pick fights he could actually win, is what is leading to what is essentially a “dying empire” strategy of lashing out against countries nearby that are considered to be “unfriendly”. From threatening Mexico with sanctions, to provoking possible war with Denmark over Greenland, to even threatening full annexation of Canada and the invasion of Panama over the Canal, this is “big stick” diplomacy in the style of Theodore Roosevelt.

For most of the world, the inward-looking notion will be a relief. But for the sovereign nations of Latin America, particularly Cuba and Venezuela (the latter of which has been threatened directly by the State Department led by the gusano Marco Rubio), this heralds a particularly dangerous time.