Summary

The State Department has ended a major USAID initiative to restore Ukraine’s energy grid, which has suffered continuous Russian attacks.

The move, seen as a signal of declining U.S. support, also includes downsizing USAID’s presence in Ukraine from 64 to just 8 personnel.

Officials warn this could leave Ukraine vulnerable, especially during winter, and reduce oversight of financial aid.

Additionally, a financial sector reform program has been terminated. The decision is part of the broader Trump administration policies shifting away from strong U.S. involvement in Ukraine.

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    “we can’t have a woman in the Whitehouse. She’d be too emotional”

    👀

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    Fuck every single person that voted for this doofus rapist shit head. Furthermore, fuck every registered voter that decided to sit this one out because, “reasons”. Our country alone arguably deserves the fallout this coward shitstain will stir up, the rest of the world absolutely does not.

    I really thought his handling of the covid pandemic (among everything else) would have been a wakeup call to Americans that he is beyond dumb as fuck. He clearly and plainly fucked it every single step of the way. I have since tempered my expectations of my fellow countrymen. Apathy, racism, ignorance and incuriosity will doom this institution.

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        Same here. I gained a little back when we rejected his ass last time but after the ensuing bullshit from conservatives during Biden’s term, lost it again. I had a feeling trump would win. It’s sad but I’m just gonna try and keep my hopes low for the us from now on. I think we will never be anywhere near the top on any front ever again and this is the point the decline is starting to hit hard

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          he only lost last time, because the republicans rigging wasnt enough to counter 81million votes for biden, this time we lost like almost 7mil voters.

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            Yeah, everything you are saying is why America is a lost cause. Even when we can choose a non-fascist, people won’t necessarily care

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      Blaming voters is always a losing strategy… might make you feel better in the short term though, but only further stops you from getting voters to learn grow and come over to your side, whatever that side is…

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      he’s not dumb, he’s a businessman. Like all successful businessmen the only deciding cards are: resources (material or immaterial) and power.

      I’m only sad about the fact that there’s absolutely no signs of diplomacy from no one’s end and that’s not a good sign

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        Lol, he’s a terrible businessman because he’s so dumb. He’s a decent con artist and has always had enough family money to bounce back from his many failures.

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          hes also a lazy con man, if he actually invested his inheritence, he wouldnt needed to resort to scams, he would be 100bn richer by now.

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        He’s not a businessman, he’s a failed constantly filling for bankruptcy conman posing as a businessman.

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        Doesn’t matter if he is a businessman or not, he’s not looking for the best deal for the US only himself and with the power he yields any deal that benefits him personally is a good deal, even if it screws the country up. In fact he’s utterly incapable of thinking about anything but himself because he’s a narcissist.

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    God fucking dammit.

    You fucking idiot motherfucking rapist orange shithead. And your ketamine boy.

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    Trump is a Russian asset. We knew this 8 years ago, and we know it today.

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      he has been one for decades, all the way before the collapse of the ussr, they saw how useful he was to launder money.

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    The Orange Turd is a traitor just like the people who voted for him.

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    This was the plan from the beginning. Krasnov and co just needed an nice stage to humiliate him and use it for “reason” to revoke this. Traitor in chief. Utterly disgusting

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    Didn’t Krasnov Trump say he wants killing to stop. why is he killing people by crippling energy grid restoration.

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    Damn is it nice to see people upset about this.

    I literally just got banned from a community cause thsi didn’t matter enough, only Gaza. Like, why can’t we support saving lives in multiple places

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        Yeah they banned me but kept up the comment talking about how democrats would dismember every Gaza baby to keep the Ukraine war going

        So, I’m kinda glad I’m not going there anymore haha

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      Who is people? I feel like that word is doing a lot of work while in reality, noone cares. At least not anyone that van make a difference.

      Yeah, you and I are outraged about it but do you think trump cares? So far there have been hundreds of protesters, sometimes even thousands, whoooohhh, cheeto must be shaking on his fat ass. Quite a few of them were angry cat ladies doing weird dances, and I remember seeing a woman having difficulty trying to say “fuck trump” in public… Yeah, these people surely will make a difference now!

      Wake me up when a million protesters in each and every of the major cities in the entire country paralyze the country for a week or so. Wake me up when Democrats organize something that will completely gridlock the US government until Cheeto steps down or something

      Until then, I just don’t want to hear about “people are really getting angry now!!” No they’re not. They don’t care, politicians don’t care, Democrats don’t care.

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        Good job at being a stick in the mud.

        Keep up ruining the mood, everyone appreciates it

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          You’re missing the point that none of “some people made sad face” is going to change anything and I am just flabbergasted that nobody is doing something that will actually enact change. Singing won’t change shit, writing on Lemmy won’t change shit and in case you ask me what I’m doing, I’m not an American, thankfully.

          Americans have to fix this, but before anything, they have to want to change something and from the looks of it, not more than a fraction of a percent want change, and that fraction is for a good part crazies that go singing and dancing, thinking they can enact change that way.

          So no, nothing will change

          Sorry, but that is the reality we live in now

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            I agree with you fully.

            But I had literally just been arguing about how this actually matters with other people on lemmy. Some people absolutely will not agree on saving Ukrainian lives, so when I saw it on another post I expressed how it was just nice to see someone else write about it.

            You had to come in immediately and shit on it for whatever reason.

            I never said you were wrong. I just called you an ass

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      you were banned for a reason lol, you basically said ukraine doesnt matter and only gaza, both matters. if you are talking from an pro-israeli standpoint, sounds like you are, which is also pretty wrong.

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        Da fuck are you talking about

        Now your just gunna make up arguments to fight about?

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    Trump just wants peace. He wants the killing to stop. And he wants to cut life-saving aid to impoverished countries. And Medicaid.

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      And he wants Canada and Panama and Greenland and if Europe doesn’t do everything he says he wants it to be vulnerable to Russian attack. He’s a man of peace.

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        Without seeing it, I’d imagine that it can either be the fediverse logo, or a supportive LGBTQ+ image relevant to that time back in 2021 when even the Pentaton wasn’t a chickenshit hive of snowflakes that lacked the balls to support a marginalized portion of our population.

        But times sure change.

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        hi new here, nice to meet you. I don’t know what you mean, to me these pictures are not shown

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      Probably, and this would be the convenient timing of 5800 USAID canceled connects over last weekend.