The Trump administration’s moves to shutter the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has exposed its long-standing ties to billionaire plutocrat George Soros’s global network. USAID had been channeling taxpayer money into Soros-affiliated non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for years, some of which have received scrutiny for allegedly pushing leftist ideologies under the guise of “democracy promotion.”
The East-West Management Institute, a beneficiary of both USAID and Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF), was granted over $260 million in taxpayer money, ostensibly to bolster the “rule of law” in countries like Georgia and Serbia—often cover for promoting legal and political opposition to conservative and non-NATO aligned governments.
The Institute previously came under fire for its role in Albania, where it was accused of facilitating judicial control by the left-leaning government.
GOP Senators also voiced their concerns that USAID’s funding was being used to push a “progressive” agenda in Macedonia through the Soros-backed Foundation Open Society-Macedonia in 2017.
USAID support for Soros affiliates extended to the Anti-Corruption Action Center in Ukraine and Transparency International, both receiving dual funding from USAID and the billionaire plutocrat. Notably, the Anti-Corruption Action Center was funded by USAID during the Euromaidan coup in Ukraine in 2014, aligning with the Obama-Biden administration and European Union’s efforts to oust the then-Russia-leaning government and setting the stage for Russian military intervention in Crimea, the Donbas, and eventually all Ukraine.
