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Comment by tantalor

7 days ago

That's not very "America First"

Why are my taxes paying for benefits for Europeans?

They already killed USAID.

The cost of running such a VPN is perhaps worth it when you consider the value of the intelligence it can collect.

  • Non-monetary, indirect value (Goodwill, "soft power", leverage, future gains) is not, and has never been a consideration for President Trump [1]. All accounts must be settled immediately. Funny how he had to take out a full-page ad, because he couldn't get this opinion actually published in any newspaper.

    [1] Donald Trump - Letter on Foreign Policy - September 2, 1987

I like that the US government finally speaks out about the rampant censorship from the EU regime but I wouldn't trust a state VPN. But they put the topic on the radar. Hope they can pressure enough to abolish the DSA. And USAID was just funding for propaganda outlets.

This is a valid tool for intelligence and propaganda operations, for both USA and Israel (since they have access to whatever.

In this age this is akin to funding and arming a militia in a foreign country, or what would've been on old times preemptive land operations.

They will force their users to pay for the service in Trump's crypto and call it a win for freedom.