Is the FSB really that incompetent they don't know who in Russia is getting public grants from the US?
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2025
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Of course they do, but why waste a chance to appear as doing something?
Is Elon secretary of state too now?
Lord Elon is whatever he wants to be. Peasants would do well to learn their place and to address his majesty with the respect he deserves.
/s
Musk/Trump will deliver on that, no questions asked.
Probably already did days ago. This is just Putin showing who’s boss by asking publicly that which was private.
Maybe not for USAid; but it makes me very concerned that Elon Musk might have information about intelligence operations overseas, and he could literally spoil operation and put other people at risk … it just grinds my gears that he has so much government information and he hasn’t even gone through a confirmation hearing of any sort. 
Didn't Trump already do this last time? I seem to remember a lot of our intelligence assets dying suddenly after meeting with Putin or something?
Thats exactly what happened and somehow nobody said shit. If I was in charge of any of those units I would have shoved my entire self up the Donald's ass until he was screaming like the stuck pig he is.
I can see it/that (Elon) using Discord, bragging, and disclosing such information.
Or one of his technobros... How long until "BigBalls" posts a bunch of confidential information.
If we're starting a better pool, please put my money on "already" or "first thing", if those are options.
Musk has already given them over, I'm sure, regardless of what claim is made going forward.
Probably for free, too.
Any bets on whether this gets added to the Russia/US-negotiated deal for Ukraine?
Calling it now, they have a poo-poo tape of Musk
Musk is just a greedy cunt who fancies himself a king.
Sometimes I wonder if this is all because Epstein didn't kill himself.
It's the only way to actually take over the world, since open war is off the table due to MAD. Get Epstein cultivating kompromat on the world's most powerful people for years and years, dedicate military resources to online trolling and influence, put your puppets in power and have them speedrun your agenda, boom USA has been dismantled and other Western democracies are next
Musk looks like Kara Swisher in this photo.
And Mango Mussolini looks even more mummified than usual.
Aren't USAid grants public?
Maybe the grants are public (probably not), but the coups and whatnot are secret. Google around...
LOL - Your 2nd link is for Iranian owned state media. I don't know that anyone should take their word on anything.
Might as well ask for a list of spies and where Ted Cruz buried the bodies.
That being said, may USAID rot in hell along with the dictatorships it sponsored
You aren't aware he gave that away last term and am inordinate amount of spies went missing, died or had to be crash extracted to avoid either of the other two possibilities?
Color me shocked that USAID is used to funnel money to spies.
I hope they can find Ted Cruz's victims too
You misunderstand and appear to be mashing odd conspiracy theory with legitimate fact so I assume you're a libertarian and I mean no offense when I say that.
No usaid isn't a spy funnel, you don't need wildly unproven conspiracy for that when we can prove gun/drug sales in Central/South America pay for quite a bit of our grey area work.
Ted Cruz victims? You mean Texas?
so I assume you're a libertarian and I mean no offense when I say that.
I'm taking offense regardless
When you wrote "gave that away" Did you mean last term they gave away a list of spies or people who received usaid funding? Cause I assumed the latter and thought you were the one making that connection.
Most libertarians would.
No I mean Trump gave Russia a list of known spies and then they ended up dead, you're adding usaid when I didn't mention it and then conflating the two.
Color me shocked that USAID is used to funnel money to spies.
It's not. It takes a Russian level of bias to decide non-profits are spies.
You... you get that, right? You don't really think they're a spy fund group? You understand both what USAID really does as well as why the Kremlin doesn't like it?
I need to know you're sentient.
You don't really think they're a spy fund group?
No, I think they're a vehicle to finance right wing dissidents and propaganda in countries that don't bow to the empire like they did in Chile, Brazil, Haiti, Cuba, Afghanistan, Bolivia, Venezuela and Colombia, Someone else brought up the spies and I responded with fake surprise.
This is the problem with getting "aid" from a genocidal empire. At best the system just uses people then throws them out.