Was Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) da in den USA gerade abzieht, ist in jeder Hinsicht bemerkenswert. Man würde doch nie vermuten, dass es vielleicht auch andere Gründe als nur die Steigerung der Effizienz einer Regierung gibt, wenn man solche Artikel wie den von Gizmodo findet?
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has barraged USAID, the international aid agency that dispenses food and supplies to nations all over the world. […] New reporting shows USAID was actually investigating equipment from one of Musk’s companies at the time that he attacked the agency. […] USAID’s inspector general was in the process of investigating its own public-private partnership between Musk’s Starlink and the Ukrainian government at the time that the billionaire’s DOGE crippled the agency. […] Musk has called the agency “evil” and a “criminal organization,” though the fact that USAID was investigating the Starlink activities may suggest ulterior motivations for the billionaire’s vitriol.
Gizmodo
Viel spannender ist aber, was eine Auflösung von USAID im Spiel der globalen Mächte auf lange Sicht auslösen wird. Was man nämlich zur U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) wissen sollte, ist, dass sie, auch wenn es noch so unwahrscheinlich scheinen mag, gewissermaßen Teil der US-Verteidigung ist, in dem sie „für Ruhe sorgen“ soll, bevor Unruhe entstehen kann.
Founded as an independent agency in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, USAID was designed to counter the influence of the then-Soviet Union during the Cold War […], based on the idea that American security was tied to stability and economic advancements in other nations. Since then, foreign aid has been widely viewed as a cornerstone of soft power, a term popularized in the 1980s by U.S. political scientist Joseph Nye to describe the ability to influence others to deliver desired outcomes. […] U.S. national security could “erode,” with abrupt changes to development programs risking instability in countries around the world, potentially influencing extremism and deepening migration crises […] Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. warned last month of the importance of soft power as a “critical component of defending America and our values.”
NBC News
Make America great again, hieß es, oder?