USAID and NED Done For, Ukraine Project Lost: Ex-CIA Analyst
18:14 GMT, 5 February 2025
It's been a helluva week in politics so far, with Elon Musk and the DOGE going after Washington's favorite soft power tools, USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy, while President Trump proposed tying future US aid to Ukraine to its rare earth riches. Sputnik asked veteran retired CIA-analyst Larry Johnson to help unpack events.
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