USAID funded Ukraine group that smeared Vance
Protesters gather outside USAID headquarters, February 3, 2025 © Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
RT | March 10, 2025
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has been implicated in funding a Ukrainian organization, Molfar, which labeled Vice President J.D. Vance and other US officials and public figures as “foreign propagandists” aligned with Russia, according to an investigation by The Grayzone.
Molfar, established in 2019, describes itself as an open-source intelligence community platform which “collects lists of Ukrainian enemies to bring war criminals to justice.” The group’s website identifies USAID and the US Civil Research and Development Fund (CRDF) as partners, indicating financial and operational support from US government agencies.
The group’s online blacklist not only targeted Vice President Vance for his statements opposing continued US financial support for Kiev and his stance against Ukraine’s NATO membership, but also targeted other American figures, including US Counterterrorism Director Joe Kent and Representative Thomas Massie. Molfar’s website advocated for their “removal from public positions, the introduction of sanctions, and investigations into personal involvement in crimes.”
In addition to political figures, Molfar has targeted American journalists, including Max Blumenthal, editor-in-chief of The Grayzone. The organization accused Blumenthal of disseminating Russian narratives and threatened to expose his personal information, including home addresses and family details.
Other notable figures targeted by Molfar include billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, journalists Glenn Greenwald and Tucker Carlson, and award-winning American economist and public policy analyst Jeffrey Sachs.
A report published by Ukraine’s National Coordination Cybersecurity Center (NCSCC), bearing USAID’s logo, highlighted that Molfar assisted in training thousands of Ukrainian government employees in cyber warfare techniques and psychological operations. The report stated that over 2,000 public workers participated in practical assignments covering topics such as open-source searches, contact search, using Telegram bots, psyop as a method of information warfare, human intelligence and social engineering.
According to The Grayzone, Molfar’s activities are part of a broader network of Ukrainian organizations involved in Kiev’s information war efforts at the expense of US taxpayer money.
Another self-styled “fact-checking” outfit, VoxUkraine, has received substantial funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and USAID. Its VoxCheck project has been involved in censoring Americans’ social media posts deemed pro-Russian. Similarly, the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), an official body under Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, has collaborated with both Molfar and VoxUkraine to combat “disinformation,” often labeling US public figures as promoters of Russian propaganda, including smearing now-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
Immediately upon assuming office, President Donald Trump suspended most US foreign assistance pending a three-month review to determine whether programs should continue based on their alignment with the new administration’s “America First” goals.
USAID, Washington’s primary mechanism for funding political projects abroad, has seen tens of billions of dollars’ worth of approved grants frozen as a result. The NED’s government funding was also frozen. Officially a US State Department-funded nonprofit for distributing grants to pro-democracy causes abroad, the NED has long faced allegations of acting as a CIA cutout for toppling foreign governments.
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The army, or a part of it at the war college, has perked up and noticed some of the lessons of the Ukraine war, and that it’s a war that the US military could not fight. They’ve missed a lot of things, or felt they couldn’t/shouldn’t write about them, but they’ve figured some stuff out and written about them in a new report, “A Call to Action: Lessons from Ukraine for the Future Force” by Lieutenant Colonel Katie Crombe, and Professor John A. Nagle.
The entire thing is worth reading, but I’m going to pull out three of the main points. The first is that a volunteer US military can’t fight a real war.
The Russia-Ukraine War is exposing significant vulnerabilities in the Army’s strategic personnel depth and ability to withstand and replace casualties.11 Army theater medical planners may anticipate a sustained rate of roughly 3,600 casualties per day, ranging from those killed in action to those wounded in action or suffering disease or other non-battle injuries. With a 25 percent predicted replacement rate, the personnel system will require 800 new personnel each day. For context, the United States sustained about 50,000 casualties in two decades of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. In large-scale combat operations, the United States could experience that same number of casualties in two weeks. (emphasis mine)
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Awww, poor ‘hiillbilly’ JD Vance! Our little hillbilly educated in the northeast at Yale and sponsored by Thiel/Karp Inc.
Did USAID sponsor the recent smearing of Thomas Massie who Trump just threw under the bus?
Trump vows to ‘lead the charge’ to oust Massie
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5187685-trump-threatens-massie-re-election/
Maybe Thomas Massie can team up with Rhashida Khalib to support Mahmoud Khalil?
The most important Civil Liberties/Free Speech AND Palestine/’Israel’ issue combined to pressure the current people in the White House.
CPAC leader calls for US-born congresswoman to be deported alongside Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mercedes-schlapp-rashida-tlaib-mahmoud-khalil-b2713898.html
Maybe the CONSERVATIVE CPAC leader should be calling out the fact that Trump/Musk Inc are disrespecting the office and history of the White House. I mean, they may not be dancing naked on the lawn like a bunch of weeded-out hippies but is this any better:
A new role for the South Lawn of Trump’s White House: Tesla car lot
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/11/trump-musk-tesla-white-house/
‘Critics said the spectacle stretched the bounds of what is ethical in the White House, with Trump openly seeking to boost the financial fortunes of Elon Musk.’
Hey, it’s not unethical if they include waffles and bottled water! Or maybe a BBQ on the lawn. Just don’t get any rib sauce on Elon’s steering wheels. An AI slaughterbot may respond:
Elon Musk Is Helping U.S. Intelligence Turn Thousands of Satellites into a Planet-Wide Brain to Spy on Everything All the Time
The National Reconnaissance Office, USA’s most secretive spy agency, contracts with SpaceX to build & launch a “proliferated architecture” of AI-controlled spy satellites interfacing with Starlink
‘The NRO ‘Launch 49’ team that used a Delta IV Heavy in January, 2011 to launch a KH-11 mission composed this patch highlighting that the spacecraft was assembled with spare parts, then rose like a Phoenix from the flames and ashes of the $10 billion Boeing failure to deliver on its contract for a new optical spacecraft line, forcing NRO to take emergency measures to restart the Lockheed Martin KH-11 production line.
At the top the Latin phrase “melior diabolus quem scies” translates to ‘The devil you know…’, meaning that going back to Lockheed was better than continuing with Boeing to retool the program.
SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket ship corporation, is a natural candidate for NRO workhorse given the singular scale of the firm’s launch capabilities.
The company utterly eclipses all competition and dominates the industry, launching four times more mass into space than the sum total launched by everyone else, government or private, on the planet in 2023.21 The rapid growth in SpaceX operations can be seen in this plot from Wikipedia showing the number of launches and distribution of rocket configurations they have used each year since 2010:
https://tinyurl.com/4ructxk9
SpaceX’s first launch for the NRO22 seems to have taken place in 2018, when they carried the classified23 “Zuma” Northrop Grumman satellite,24 but, unfortunately for our surveillers, Zuma failed due to improper calibration by Northrop.25
That’s the official story, at least.
The US government has hoaxed satellite failures to obscure classified missions in the past, going so far as to launch fake space debris to fool observers, so there has been reasonable speculation that something similar may have gone on with the $3 billion Zuma satellite.
It’s hard to say what really happened, but discussion of Zuma is a great excuse to display this image captured by a Dutch pilot as the upper stage of SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket returned to Earth after the launch…’
https://booty.substack.com/p/elon-musk-is-helping-us-intelligence
Top Secret KH-11 Spysat Design Revealed By NRO’s Twin Telescope Gift to NASA
Let’s get right to the meaty stuff:
‘Instead of meeting with the Chairman again, this time I was summoned to the White House and a meeting with Navy Adm. Dan Murphy, director of intelligence for the National Security Council and the late Les Dirks deputy director of science and technology at the NRO. There was also a third person present who did not want to be identified. I surmised that he was either intelligence community undercover, or Justice Dept.
The KH-11 was still a top secret program and the fact its manual had been sold to the Soviets did not affect the government’s opinion that we should still keep it secret, even though other media had begun to mention it. Their position was that it “may not have” been made widely available in Soviet military and intelligence circles. But their arguments were going total political.
Finally I told them that in my opinion their arguments were not strong enough to justify a national security hold on our part. I pulled out a pocket calculator and said that if I could determine what a KH-11 was doing with this, then the Soviets could certainly do it especially since they were in possession of the operations manual.’
DeepSeek before DeepSeek.
https://archive.ph/CKIa0
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Oh yeah: Pair the above with slaughterbots:
https://odysee.com/@scoobyburn:1/Sci-Fi-Short-Film-%E2%80%9CSlaughterbots%E2%80%9D–2017:6
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Maybe civil liberties and union people can come together to prevent the Post Office from being privatized?:
https://archive.ph/zdKlU
Does Thomas Massie support the Post Office…as a public service not subject to the profit motive?
Imagine saying that the cops, fire or, god forbid, the military didn’t turn a profit? OH MY GOD!
Actually, no. These are necessary services to society at large.
A wholly privatized society is an absolute nightmare. Read a guy like Walter Block who said that every road should be private. That is the roadmap.
These people are every bit as insane as the hardcore Marxists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Block
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Yet, outside of protectionism, managed immigration, and multi-polar realism, Trump is just an ordinary big government Republican. The kind that libertarians loathe.
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