Driving the news: Iran’s government has seemingly welcomed the agency’s overhaul and freezing U.S. foreign aid, with state media reports suggesting the moves will cut off support pro-democracy activists, APreported.
- Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev praised Elon Musk — Trump’s righthand man who has led the charge against USAID — for “trying to plug USAID’s Deep Throat.”
- Russian ultra-nationalist Alexander Duginpraised the USAID’s takedown as a “critical blow to globalism” in the right-wing outlet Arktos.
It’s Christmas time in the Kremlin. Putin’s been a naughty boy but that doesn’t matter anymore. The rebel alliance doesn’t stand a chance against the empire.