regardless of the good work you might personally have been involved in its a concrete historical fact that aid networks have been usurped by or used as fronts for clandestine purposes, often in service of the neocolonial projects that make that aid necessary in the first place.
because the purpose of developmental aid isn't to "help" poor, clueless non-white civilizations who just can't seem to run a civilization without the help of a benevolent white savior. The point is to keep those nations just barely alive enough to survive the exploitation being inflicted upon them
[“We’ve grabbed you as the winner of this, but the rest of the room’s media is going for the person who’s come second, Llyr Powell from Reform. What do you think that tells us?”
Whittle, for once slightly flustered, replied: “I simply don’t know.”]
"The British establishment and the more extreme right-wing parties saw Hitler’s Germany not just as a strong nation which could cripple communism once and for all, but also as a country they could possibly ally with, or at least encourage to attack the home of communism with some tacit support."
Liberals and conveniently ignoring the decade Stalin tried to form a defensive alliance with the other Western powers against Germany but was constantly rebuked because they actually quite liked Hitler - an iconic duo
When you're a guy who makes being the ultimate thing-knower their identity and you spout ahistorical bullshit because you're mad at an email you never had to mention publicly
