Love in the Time of Hegemonic Suicide - https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/27/love-in-the-time-of-hegemonic-suicide/ "in the same year #Trump willfully destroyed #USAID (yearly budget, $30 billion for the entire world), the best explanation for spending up to $40 billion bailing out a failed economic ideology is that same purpose: soft power.

For just one country."