similar to the one that ended USAID, despite both being US tools for dominating the global south.
This. Which is why this is ultimately a self-sabotaging move for the US empire as it arrogantly abandons its liberal-imperialist tools of soft-power which cannot be effectively replaced with pure threats and bullying. There is a reason why the much smarter imperialists of the past established these institutions.
The propaganda power of the pretense of a liberal “rules based order” that existed the past should not be underestimated, and anti-imperialists should celebrate the destruction of the institutions propping up that illusion and the unveiling of the West’s desperate, naked and moribund imperialism.
This. Which is why this is ultimately a self-sabotaging move for the US empire as it arrogantly abandons its liberal-imperialist tools of soft-power which cannot be effectively replaced with pure threats and bullying. There is a reason why the much smarter imperialists of the past established these institutions.
The propaganda power of the pretense of a liberal “rules based order” that existed the past should not be underestimated, and anti-imperialists should celebrate the destruction of the institutions propping up that illusion and the unveiling of the West’s desperate, naked and moribund imperialism.