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Comment by epolanski

10 hours ago

US funds foreign political no profits in other countries thanks to the Foreign Assistance Act agencies like USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy.

That's besides the money funneled through other agencies which are more covert.

That means that countries around the world have US funded no profits effectively doing non bi-partizan political activity.

Officially those should only inform (foreign) citizens about their civic and voting rights, in reality they are more often than not tools of the US to influence and take huge biases in other countries.

And here's the underlying problem: as per American exceptionalism it's fine when US does that, but it's unacceptable when others do it in US.