Deep-state expert Alexander Dugin on the sudden end of USAID:
"USAID was the main operational structure for the implementation of globalist projects. Essentially, it was the primary transmission belt for globalism as an ideology aimed at the worldwide imposition of liberal democracy, market economics, and human rights, while dismantling sovereign states and overthrowing regimes capable of resisting this on a global scale.
"Through this agency, globalism was embedded in various countries. That is why USAID was financed with a substantial portion of the U.S. federal budget: about 1% — amounting to $50 billion annually. When you factor in subsidies from other globalist structures, this figure at least doubles. Thus, approximately 2% of the American treasury was spent on this agency each year. One can only imagine the material resources this organization possessed. Additionally, it was closely integrated with a certain segment of the Central Intelligence Agency (most USAID branches worldwide served as cover for CIA activities, into which globalist ideas were actively embedded).
"After sweeping out the previous U.S. political leadership — super-globalists — Donald Trump began purging the CIA of representatives from this globalist structure. The banning of USAID is a critical, fundamental move, the importance of which, as I said, cannot be overstated. This is especially true because countries like Ukraine largely depend on this agency, receiving significant funding through it. All Ukrainian media, NGOs, and ideological structures were financed by USAID.
"And suddenly, all of this collapses. Sure, some committed liberals will continue their activities out of ideological conviction, but they are a very small percentage. The vast majority of liberalism and global liberal networks operate on the principle of “money for loyalty.” But whose money funds this liberal “loyalty”? It is USAID’s money.
"Therefore, without USAID — and given that Elon Musk has called it a “criminal organization responsible for deaths” — this funding for subversive activities will cease. This, in turn, is a blow to the entire global liberal environment. Essentially, it is a missile strike on the headquarters of globalism. And Trump and Musk made it happen."
This week, the US President gave an apparently delusional update of the Iran conflict. Iran's military is decimated, and it's President is asking for a cease fire, he reported.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman immediately rejected that. State broadcaster IRIB quoted Esmail Baghaei as saying Trump's statements were false and unfounded.
Trump attributed the request for a ceasefire to Iran's "New Regime President."
On the same day, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian criticized the US war against his country in an open letter to the people of the United States on Wednesday, calling it an absurd operation that is costly for their nation.
Within hours of Mr. Trump's analysis of a destroyed Iranian military, Iran fired more missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab states, demonstrating Tehran’s continued ability to attack even as US President Donald Trump claimed the threat from the country was nearly eliminated and predicted the war would end soon.
In Mr. Trump's speech to the nation, Paul...
Today's assymetrical warfare: Iran's cheap munitions are taking out American's most expensive aircraft.
One internet observer:
"Iran, still using their pawns, while Israel and the US out there, with only their King n Queen left. Who will fall first?
"5 pawns and a king versus a king and queen in a chess end game, the side with the 8 pawns always wins. 5 pawns is enough. That’s standard.
"In a way, you could call it asymmetrical warfare."
Well, it's not "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius."
It's $400,000 Bentley automobiles. A lot of them. Of all the dealerships in Europe, the one in Kiev is in third place for sheer volume.
Take note of this tragic truth:
"Foreign aid is a mechanism by which poor people in rich countries are taxed to support the lifestyles of rich people in poor countries. The aid primarily serves three Ms—: munitions, monuments, and Mercedes for leaders and cronies."
--- Peter Thomas Bauer, a Hungarian-born British development economist: