MaoTheLawn [any, any]

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  • Hm. This all seems too convenient. USAID and Radio Free both becoming targets - surely they can’t be that fucking stupid?

    Of course there’s people who really believe the shit this guy is saying, but surely many of the higher ups don’t?

    I have this gut feeling that USAID and RF closing up shop is all part of a new game plan. The empire allows free speech when times are easy. It clamps when competition arises. In the past year, USAID has stopped making information of it’s grants public. Therefore, the govt finds USAID to be too revealing.

    Perhaps wrapping it all up means they can burn some documents in the process. Maybe it’s that these outlets are too compromised - in the sense that it has become more common knowledge that USAID and especially RF are state propaganda outlets. In this new war against China, they need a clean slate and a redoubled effort. Both outlets began in response to the Soviets post war - RF in 1950, USAID in 1961. Now it’s China.

    I will add an extra layer of lizard brained conspiracy to this - there are document declassification windows in the US. At 25 years, its easy enough to reclassify it. At 50 years, exceptions can still be made. At 75 years, you have to have a very fucking good reason.

    Radio Free was setup 75 years ago. USAID 65. In coming years, more and more of RF’s dirty side will be made public knowledge. A decade later so too will USAID’s. This will all be coming out at the height of the coming cold war with China.

    Perhaps it is wise for the govt to distance themselves from it. To be able to claim they shut it down.

    The new outlets will be unknown entities.