We know firsthand how much trouble this organization has caused. I would like to put the word “development” in quotation marks, because in fact, USAID did the opposite—it destroyed countries by creating, for example, extensive networks of “independent” media and social media with clear instructions on manipulating public opinion.

There is extensive evidence of the USAID agency’s pressure on independent media to force them not to cover the crimes of the Ukrainian military in Donbass, Zaporizhia, Kherson, and the Kursk region,” says Pushilin.