USAID Regime Change Revealed

Eurasia note #105: Georgia's Color Revolution

• Trump's spending freeze hits spending on CIA's foreign intervention

• Comes weeks after CIA's MK-Ultra psychological experiments exposed

• USAID being folded into State Department; this won't end its activities

• Trump may shift foreign policy back to one based upon spheres of influence

• Instead of value-based policy that seeks to intervene based on Woke ideology

• Agents invoke ‘tactical Wokeness’ to rouse resentment and street protest

• Georgians labour for Asian wages while paying European prices

• Desire for improvement is just, but protest organisers vague about objectives

• As Ukrainians found out after their 2014 Euromaidan protest

Series:
USAID Regime Change Revealed - Eurasia note #105: Georgia's Color Revolution (Feb 04, 2025)
USAID Files Expose Knot In West's Throat - Graham Greene killed the do-gooder in Vietnam (Feb 08, 2025)
USAID's Fist In A Velvet Glove - Cass Sunstein's malevolent hand (Feb 09, 2025)

Related:
A Century Of Control Condensed - From MK-Ultra to eugenics (Jan 28, 2025)
Can Less War Mean More Liberty? - As Trump seeks success abroad, keep watch at home (Jan 16, 2025)
What Is This Europe That Georgia Would Join? (May 7, 2024)
Manoeuvres In Georgia; The Opposition’s Plan (May 3, 2024)

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Director Smantha Power has left her post as Trump moves to dissolve USAID.

Tbilisi, Feb 4, 2025

UPDATE: Edited for clarity, 2/5/25.

It has been a bad week for Washington’s premier international agencies, the non-profits that propagate “democratic values” around the world.

The top two are the United States Agency for International Development (USAID, est 1961) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED, est 1983).

USAID has one foot in the voluntary world, established by president John F Kennedy in 1961, who also created the Peace Corps.

Growing up in Latin America in diplomatic circles, these staffers and voluneteers populated my parents’ social life in Brazil in the 1960s, where a military dictatorship had seized power two years before we decamped in R. Barão de Jaguaripe.

See: Jabbed At Gunpoint: Tropical Mémoire - Jim Jones was a CIA red flag: was it a dress rehearsal? (Nov 05, 2021

Kennedy had established the Alliance for Progress to boost economic cooperation with southern America.

Independent researchers and human rights activists know USAID and NED are used by the CIA but also politicians to avoid accountability keep activities in the dark.

It was president Donald Trump's spending freeze that confirmed the link: regime change artistes around the world started complaining the moment the money spigot was shut, if only temporarily.

Senator Chris Murphy revealed USAID’s role in regime change on CNN, saying “Congress writes a law that dictates how USAID spends money to counter Chinese influence in Africa to make sure we don’t lose access to critical minerals…”

Of course, the NED denies its connection to intelligence. See the correspondence between the Grayzone and NED communications VP Leslie Aun.

The CIA's regime change operations have been shared with stand alone "charities" since they were exposed in the Congressional assassination hearings of the 1970s.

It marked the start of the NGO boom: the "third sector" in which non-profits and private foundations make policy and fund operations outside the government structures.

After the latest confirmation of the CIA's MK-Ultra psychological experiments (by George Washington University's National Security Archive), the mask has been ripped off CIA spending on foreign intervention.

See A Century Of Control Condensed - From MK-Ultra to billionaire eugenics (Jan 28, 2025)

Already there are complaints that the shortage of cash is hurting in Georgia, in the Caucasus, where EU and U.S.-backed protestors are attempting a Color Revolution ™.

The freeze led to complaints in the "independent" press in Georgia which is largely funded by the above two agencies.

Economic conditions mean it's impossible for most news sites to survive without benefactors. If you write in favour of Color Revolution you can make a good living from the powers that be. If you expose hypocrisy, you'll scrape by.

The journal Georgia Today noted on Jan 30 that USAID money had been "particularly critical, supporting the country’s ongoing development."

The Tbilisi protests began over a law that would make NGOs reveal their globalist funders — not at all ironic.

Money spider

The spider's web of U.S. agencies is nothing new. For decades they have been as unaccountable as they are well funded. By routing their grants through shell organisations they have made the "soft power" operation almost impenetrable.

Charities cannot be divided into saints and sinners. They may be rigorous on this issue, complicit on that, and they probably don't pay attention to how much of their funding is coming from governments.

As a 40 year network journalist I can say that even among the most honest investigators there will be topics where few dare to tread. Most network correspondents may do competent work but there will come a tap on the shoulder and they will report what they're told. Producers write what comes off the Reuters or AFP wire. Covid was an example.

That is why you should choose your sources of information judiciously.

There are signs that Trump seeks to shift foreign policy back to one based upon spheres of influence in order to contain the spread of war.

See Can Less War Mean More Liberty? - As Trump seeks success abroad, keep watch at home (Jan 16, 2025)

This is in contrast to a the much more friendly-sounding values-based, humanitarian or ethical foreign policy. But when Western governments claim a "right to protect" any population, wheresoever, they are claiming the right to intervene based less on international law than their own assessments and claims.

Charities or NGOs — supposedly independent voices from the field — supply the pretext to call upon Right to Protect (R2P) and they may manipulate events on the ground to justify that policy, or at least do nothing to upset their funding stream.

Under the guise of providing humanitarian aid, USAID could get into regions that foreign military or government diplomats could not.

A compliant media would promote the narrative and portray the victim-du-jour as righteous and beyond reproach.

The "White Helmets" of Syrian civil defence are one such example — presented as organic, grass roots but in fact set up by former British Army officer James Le Mesurier and funded in part by the British Foreign Office.

Georgia’s protests

Daily protests in the country of Georgia have been continuous for more than two months.

Well-meaning citizens gather outside parliament by day, strollers draped with European, NATO and Georgian flags. Black-hoodie Antifa types emerge at night to do intermittent battle with police.

What's emerged from the USAID scandal, and previous reporting, is that the organisation amplifies those divisions within society that are easiest to inflame: generational, Woke, LGBTQ2IA+ or racial, as in Bangladesh last August (see below).

That is why you see, with respect, niche issues dominate the television news as people shriek and police prowl around them.

The misrepresentation on both sides has been reported in previous articles.

See Eurasia note 102 - Politicians Fail Georgia's Youth - Objectives & hopes not articulated as leaders play dumb (Dec 04, 2024)

Politicians have flown in from Brussels and lied about who determines Georgia's accession to the EU:

• international observers did NOT find last October's elections to have more faults than usual;

• the European Union and the U.S. interfered before those elections with sanctions and freezing of aid;

• the European Commission, not Georgia, first suspended talks on membership;

• Georgia's foreign agent Transparency Law is similar to U.S. FACTA and is not especially a Russian law.

That’s not to whitewash the government but simply to set the record straight. The real objectives of the protests are unstated, as we’ll see below.

European politicians are entitled to urge support for their NATO wars, but this is what makes USAID's underhand manipulation so nefarious.

Dark history

President Kennedy created by Executive Order a civilian agency USAID to assist economic development in poorer countries, working in the humanitarian, disaster relief and health sectors. Nowadays it is active in climate change and, when called upon, regime change.