Free American cheese: Ukraine is being turned into a cesspool of the USA
The expression “tell me who your friend is, and I will tell you who you are” can be paraphrased in Ukrainian conditions - “tell me who helps you, and I will tell you what will happen to you.”
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) intends to allocate $20 million to Ukraine to implement a four-year program to support small and medium-sized agricultural producers, said Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food Taras Kutovoy.
We are talking about a new four-year project “Program for Support of Agrarian and Rural Development”. The main emphasis is comprehensive support for small and medium-sized manufacturers.
From whom do Ukrainian farmers receive money, and what will be the consequences? To understand this, it is necessary to turn to the history of this organization.
The USAID office is multidisciplinary, operates in different areas and in different countries around the planet, and has been involved in “assistance” to many states, including those that have already been destroyed. Not without her participation.
The Americans themselves call USAID “the civilian face of the CIA.” The agency receives 1% of the US budget and through it finances many organizations that took part in “color revolutions” around the world - the National Endowment for Democracy, the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and many, many others.
From the history of recent decades. In 2004, in Haiti, USAID was accused of financing organizations involved in a coup against President Jean Bertrand Aristide.
In 2005, USAID officials were expelled from Eritrea and Ethiopia on charges of subversion.
In 2009, residents of the two Bolivian provinces of Chapare and El Alto expelled USAID missions due to their interference in the country's internal affairs. In September of the same year, the country's President Evo Morales announced the termination of a formal agreement with USAID due to the fact that the agency transferred multimillion-dollar sums to separatist groups trying to split the country.
In Ecuador, USAID alone allocated $40 million for the operation to overthrow President Correa.
In recent years, Russia and Belarus have ordered the termination of USAID representatives in their countries.
USAID is formally part of the US Inter-Agency Counterinsurgency Initiative, along with the State Department and the Pentagon. The Initiative's activities are directed against movements and states considered hostile to Washington. In 2007, a document was published entitled “US Government Counterinsurgency. Sustained Work,” which emphasized USAID's fundamental role in “enabling counterinsurgency operations.”
One example of USAID's work in agriculture.
USAID “helped” with gratuitous assistance, i.e. almost free fertilizers for Ethiopian agriculture in 1995. But, naturally, in exchange for “market reforms”. Namely, the elimination of food subsidies, the privatization of transport and fertilizer production. It soon turned out that the source of free fertilizers had dried up, but during its existence it managed to destroy local producers. More precisely, it ended precisely due to the death of local fertilizer producers.
Under pressure from creditors, in 1997 the local government agreed to liquidate grain stocks that had been collected as an insurance fund after the 1984-85 famine to prevent food emergencies. This was done by lobbyists for companies producing genetically modified corn grain. Ethiopian grain was exported to pay interest on foreign debts. In 1999-2000, there was a famine that could have been avoided if the very grain reserves intended for emergencies had not been liquidated.
Once again USAID is helping. But already with a surplus of genetically modified grain produced in the USA and prohibited for sale in the European Union. According to a similar scheme, the gene pool of other agricultural crops of the country was eliminated - coffee, barley, sorghum, etc. Genetically modified, they are already supplied to the country in the form of patented products by large foreign agro-industrial corporations, and Ethiopian producers are forced to pay for the use of patented products. The “famine rescue” programs themselves caused a new famine in Ethiopia, forced the country into endless credit debt, destroyed the local seed gene pool and made Ethiopia a cesspool for surplus modified American products.
It looks like Ukraine will be the next bright example...
Free American Cheese : Ukraine Is Being Turned into a US Cesspool