Former Marine DEBUNKS USAID Rumors
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
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🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Former U.S. Marine Brian Berletic, who focuses on geopolitics in Eurasia and hosts the informative Youtube show The New Atlas, joins Useful Idiots this week as Elon Musk and the Trump administration are gutting USAID and attempting to move it under the control of Marco Rubio’s State Department.
Musk claims he’s “dismantling the Deep State.” Berletic, whose years as a marine gave him a harsh awakening about the reality of US hegemony, gives an in-depth analysis of what’s really going on.
He explains why each side is up-in-arms over the issue: Dems are painting USAID as an all-loving agency that is essential to upholding Democracy around the world, while Republicans are crying wokeism by finding relatively trivial expenses in the fine print. Neither, Berletic says, are highlighting the real, and much more nefarious issues with USAID.
“They have not mentioned foreign interference, regime change, subversion, stifling development, and they have not said that they are going to stop any of that.”
“And here's a photo,” he shows us from the U.S. Government Counterinsurgency Guide, drafted in part by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). “Just think about how tone deaf or brazen they are to post this picture. This is a picture of the Philippines, the U.S. conquered the Philippines. There was an uprising because they wanted to be an independent nation. The US military brutally suppressed it. Mass murder, concentration camps. This is all listed on the State Department's website And so they're talking about insurgency, counterinsurgency, and USAID's role in the counterinsurgency process.”
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00:00 Intro
00:30 Schumer's embarrassing leadership
05:52 Trump's ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza
10:46 The most Trumpian exchange of all time
12:29 Pro-Israel group threatens Norm Finkelstein with a pager
16:10 Brian Berletic interview
16:48 Debunking USAID rumors
18:58 What USAID actually does
23:47 Is Trump WITH the Deep State?
26:15 The myth of the Radical Left
27:28 Marco Rubio on USAID
31:30 Trump tariffs vs Biden tariffs
34:21 USAID and it's "open source" cronies like Bellingcat
39:04 Talk about Russia meddling in elections!
42:50 CIA's new priority: UNDERMINE CHINA
45:30 The China Obsession
48:59 How will China respond?
50:54 WHAT IS THE DEEP STATE?
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| 0:55.0 | secure. Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie Helper. I'm Mary Matei. Thanks so much for being |
| 1:05.0 | here. Our website is Useful Idiots Podcast.com. Go there to support the show and get bonus content. And today's interview is really |
| 1:13.0 | excellent. It's with Brian Berletic, and he has a fascinating analysis of what motivates Donald |
| 1:19.8 | Trump when it comes to USAID and also things like the tariff. So definitely excited for people |
| 1:26.0 | to hear that. All right. Let's get to our four basic food groups. What do we have for Democrats suck? |
| 1:31.2 | So for Democrats suck, we have a great example of Democrats basically sucking in their response |
| 1:36.9 | to things. They always manage to focus on the wrong thing when they're trying to take on Trump. |
| 1:42.2 | And there is something, you know, I think lots of people |
| 1:44.6 | talked about Trump being an existential threat at moments when he wasn't. But certain things that are |
| 1:52.1 | happening are really, really quite worrisome. For instance, Elon Musk's doge trying to basically |
| 1:58.1 | take over the treasury. They have access to federal workforces, personal data. |
| 2:03.3 | And the way that the Democrats are responding to this isn't by talking about how this is kind of a |
| 2:08.3 | constitutional crisis because it affects the balance of powers. |
| 2:13.5 | They're focusing on the fact that it will affect USAID, and they're trying to come up with clever slogan. |
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