Ivory Coast Losing US Aid as Al-Qaida Lurks

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

With its tomato patches and grazing cattle, the Ivory Coast village of Kimbirila-Nord hardly looks like a front line of the global fight against extremism.

Posted by Dbt2 at 11:32 AM | 23 COMMENTS | permalink

Ivory Coast is losing US aid as al-Qaida and other extremist groups are approaching https://apnews.com/article/usaid-extremism-ivory-coast-trump-8d8ff11495bfd1350cf88bb48307414c?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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Comments

Not like the fat idiot knows where the Cote d'Ivory is...

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-17 12:29 AM

This is good.

Over the next four years, $28 trillion of the $36 trillion National Debt matures.
Financing current deficits will add another $10 trillion.
Its unlikely the U.S. can sell $38 trillion of Treasuries with a 4%.
So either US pays 6% or more, or the Fed has to buy alot , if not all of it.

US is looking at hard times, the US will soon look like the Ivory Coast.

#2 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-19 12:00 PM

Abysmal troll.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-19 12:04 PM

-US is looking at hard times, the US will soon look like the Ivory Coast.

Some folks here read that and realize that's how they sound and look.

You're scaring the ---- out of them when you talk like that.

You might even get called a troll by the most hysterical of them.

#4 | Posted by eberly at 2025-03-19 12:10 PM

I swear I hadn't seen #3 when I posted that.

Right on cue....

#5 | Posted by eberly at 2025-03-19 12:11 PM

USAID represented the United States' "soft power" in the world.

Now that the United States has cut back, drastically, in the use of that soft power, our adversaries, e.g., China, Russia, are moving in to take our place.

That means we no longer have the platform to help those suffering in the world and to show American Excellence to developing countries.

The cost of USAID was minimal compared to the soft benefits we received.

But since those benefits were "soft," i.e., not monetary, Pres Trump is unable to see them.

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-19 12:19 PM

"USAID represented the United States' "soft power" in the world."

It's... weird how Republicans turned their back on everything they stood for since I was old enough to know anything about politics.

The really weird part, is how Republicans don't seem to mind. Or notice. Or talk about it.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-19 12:32 PM

More on soft power ...

Trump mutes Voice of America, makes space for Russian and Chinese influence
www.france24.com

... US President Donald Trump last week cut funding for international public radio stations Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, which broadcast programmes aligned with "democratic values" to millions of listeners around the world.

In their absence, Russia and China are now set to fill the gap with their own state media offerings. ...

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-19 02:18 PM

This is good though, right, because USAID is a "criminal organization", right?

#9 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-03-19 03:21 PM

right!
No more free money for any foreign country until everyone here has healthcare housing and enough to eat.

#10 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-19 04:15 PM

#3
Trolls user by calling him a troll

the "irrational behaviour" exhibited by some Trump critics indicates a "deeper psychological problem"

#11 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-19 04:17 PM

right!
No more free money for any foreign country until everyone here has healthcare housing and enough to eat.

#10 | Posted by itchyp

LOL

Magat scum won't let us have universal healthcare, housing and food.

#12 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-03-19 05:02 PM

Just to be clear, cutting USAID WILL kill millions of people, mostly children.

Magat scum are truly VILE

#13 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-03-19 05:02 PM

Not just the Ivory Coast. I noticed on the news that ambulances in Ukraine responding to Putin's celebratory ceasefire air attack were sporting USAID logos.

#14 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-03-19 05:18 PM

M ake
A l-Qaida
G row
A gain

Brilliant! Anyway, those guys never did anything to Americans, right?!? They just talk tough...
--MAGA functionaries, forgetting their history, again

#15 | Posted by catdog at 2025-03-19 05:38 PM

This is the goal for dotard and Leon.

futurism.com

#16 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-19 06:21 PM

Just to be clear, cutting USAID WILL kill millions of people, mostly children.

Magat scum are truly VILE

#13 | Posted by truthhurts

They consider that a Feature, not a bug.

#17 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-03-20 11:14 AM

Magat scum won't let us have universal healthcare

Well it's so complicated that only 38 of the 39 developed countries in the world have figured it out.

#18 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-03-20 01:01 PM

Just to be clear, cutting USAID WILL kill millions of people, mostly children.

Magat scum are truly VILE

#13 | Posted by truthhurts

They consider that a Feature, not a bug.

#17 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-03-20 11:14 AM

It's their spank bank material right after Hunters d.

#19 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-03-20 01:02 PM

Trump mutes Voice of America, makes space for Russian and Chinese influence
www.france24.com

... US President Donald Trump last week cut funding for international public radio stations Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, which broadcast programmes aligned with "democratic values" to millions of listeners around the world.
In their absence, Russia and China are now set to fill the gap with their own state media offerings. ...

If he's not a russian operative why does he keep doing exactly what Putin wants?

#20 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-03-20 01:04 PM

"Trump mutes Voice of America, makes space for Russian and Chinese influence"

You need me on that wall.
--USMC

You're Fired.
--President Donald J. TRUMP

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-20 01:34 PM

I think I can simplify this equation:
America first, America only.
Ivory Coast, spread the word to your bum buddies; we're not gonna support you any longer. Time to grow up!

#22 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-20 04:37 PM

Trump mutes Voice of America, makes space for Russian and Chinese influence
www.france24.com

One reason Aghanistan fell was because of the US promotion of its culture on to a socially conservative society.

I bet the same for the ivory coast.

They really done want out culture, if they did they would have just crossed the border under Biden.

#23 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-20 05:06 PM

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