Internationalist 360º: Black Day for Ukrainian Nationalism: USAID Programs Suspension Hits Kiev War Regime Hard
“This is the first time that readers, viewers, or listeners of mass media in Ukraine are learning of the extent to which U.S. government agencies have been funding the operations of the state of Ukraine and the country’s loyal, nationalist, mass media.” Ever since the coup in Ukraine in February 2014, this media has worked tirelessly to condemn all things Russian, pitting Ukrainians against Russians. The aid suspension has provoked panic among countless thousands of state and government officials as well as journalists and other media workers.
Black Day for Ukrainian Nationalism: USAID Programs Suspension Hits Kiev War Regime Hard
The suspension of USAID funding to Ukraine by the new U.S. administration has exposed the extent of Western financial influence on Ukrainian media, government, and nationalist movements.
In late January 2025, the new U.S. administration in Washington announced a 90-day suspension of U.S. government programs, including overseas aid. In explaining the move, new White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt harshly condemned the previous presidential regime of Joseph Biden for spending “like drunken sailors”. She made no specific mention of Ukraine nor USAID, the main foreign aid funding arm of her government.
The Ukrainian Telegram channel ‘Rubicon’ reported in a lengthy posting on January 28, “All Ukrainian clients of U.S. foreign aid have received letters from their sponsors announcing suspensions for an indefinite period of all new requests for USAID funding.” As a result, most aid recipients among mass media in Ukraine have published appeals to their readers to pay for subscriptions and reader access going forward, saying the revenue is needed due to the suspension of new applications for USAID funding.
The channel continues, “This is the first time that readers, viewers, or listeners of mass media in Ukraine are learning of the extent to which U.S. government agencies have been funding the operations of the state of Ukraine and the country’s loyal, nationalist, mass media.” Ever since the coup in Ukraine in February 2014, this media has worked tirelessly to condemn all things Russian, pitting Ukrainians against Russians. The aid suspension has provoked panic among countless thousands of state and government officials as well as journalists and other media workers.
Rubicon explains further, “We note that this decree does not affect previously agreed programs of weapons supply to Ukraine. The Pentagon has assured that weapons-production programs in Ukraine as well as weapons deliveries from U.S. Army warehouses will continue according to previously-agreed volumes.”
Ukraine.ru columnist Viktoriya Titova wrote on January 30, “The nationalist interpretation of modern Ukraine, paid for with Western money, may have to move toward self-sufficiency. Since this Ukraine happens to stand on feet of clay, the propagandists’ greatest fear is that the Ukrainian population will quickly sober up and start returning to its true values. All this is now on display in writings and comments in social media. Alternative viewpoints by opinion leaders in the country are emerging in social media outlets.”
Titova continued, “Ukrainian grant-eaters continue to expose themselves. The suspension of American aid for social and humanitarian projects (read: propaganda processing of the population) has sown panic in the ranks of the patriots.”
In Ukraine as in Russia, recipients of foreign grants are traditionally disliked and perceived as selling out their respective countries. They are typically described with the pejorative term ‘grant-eaters’. A Ukrainian official who has been receiving Western grants for a long time is typically regarded as someone who is completely disconnected from the common people, speaking in empty clichés typical of American officials that sound like nothing more than babble.
The publication of information about who has been receiving USAID funding has stirred a flurry of angry writings on social networks in Ukraine because it reveals many officials and journalists in Ukraine to be little more than paid agents of the United States government. It sheds much light on why, exactly, they have been propagating war against Russia.
Nothing can come from idealizing Donald Trump nor his Republican Party administration, but it is a fact that the aid recipients in Ukraine during the past four years have been or have become devoted clients of Trump’s rivals in the Democratic Party administration in Washington.
Scope of foreign funding
Ukrainian legislator Maryan Zablotskyy reported on his Facebook page on January 27 on 112 current USAID funded projects in Ukraine of varying durations amounting to US$7 billion. The New York Times reported on February 9 the total funding by USAID by country for 2023, the latest year in which full figures are available. It showed that Ukraine was, by far, the largest recipient that year at US$16.6 billion, followed by apartheid Israel at US$3.3 billion.
Zablotskyy’s Facebook report specifically cited seven programs funded by US$297 million over the past three years. He said these are of dubious value or none at all and said there are dozens more such projects receiving funding. He wrote, “Maybe some people need such spending, but I don’t quite understand why U.S. taxpayers feel the need to pay for it. And why isn’t the Ukraine government asking for funding of programs that are clearly more necessary?”
Governments of the European Union are also providing high levels of aid funding to Ukraine.
I wonder if there could
any (((plan))) behind it.
https://archive.is/HLJID
@ Tim
The reference you give is extremely important for readers’ consideration.
However, it was Russia that started this white civil-war. Maybe some oligarchs are more influential than others.
TYVM, Arnold. Yes, Russia started the war, but we must not forget that it was preceded by something that had been going on for years. Which, as you point out, in no way justifies war, but was the “reason” for starting it. Some persons (like Putin) should not be given an opportunity, but the Jews in America and the same ones in the East (who call themselves “oligarchs” there) wanted it, after all, the victims are Goyim (despised by them for thousands of years).
@ Tim
I agree: Russia has had genuine concerns since 1812, 1918 and 1941, although Bolshevism (Putin was a KGB official) was a world danger also. Like antisemitism these conflicts are all inter-active and have primordial roots in warfare from prehistoric times. There is some truth in the saying that the people who put the Soviets in were the people who pushed them out. (No need for Le Comte de Craon’s redundant triple brackets, zzzz…). Europe needs peace, but Moscow is entitled to retain Russian Donbas, Crimea and warm-water access.
Is anyone here old enough to remember the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations and the World Anti-Communist League, funded in part discreetly by Saudis and accused of “fascist antisemitism”? I always wonder what became of the Idel-Uralians, or even who they were outside the brain of Alfred Rosenberg, the walking encyclopaedia of worthless knowledge in the Third Reich, who ran what Goebbels called the Chaosministerium in the Occupied Territories. Could Dr Sunic offer enlightenment?
Putin’s Jewish links were spelled out to some extent by David Klion, “Our Oligarch”, Jewish Currents, March 3, 2022, on line. I wonder what “Pierre de Craon” (pseud) would make of them?