Ukraine all over again, then again, is there any country the US hasn't interfered with?

The soft power playbook hasn’t changed since the Cold War—dump cash into destabilization, wrap it in “democracy” slogans, and watch the chaos unfold. Washington’s obsession with regime change in Iran reeks of desperation, not idealism. Pouring millions into shadowy NGOs and media ops while pretending to champion civil rights is just sugar-coated imperialism.

Of course they’re hiding the recipients. Nothing unites Iranians faster than the stench of foreign meddling. The 2022 protests fizzled precisely because Washington’s usual proxies started waving their flags, turning local grievances into a geopolitical sideshow.

Biden’s funding freeze might be the best thing to happen to US-Iran relations. When your opposition is bankrolled by the same empire that’s sanctioned your economy into dust, even dissent becomes a performance. Maybe now we’ll see if Tehran’s resilience outlasts DC’s attention span.

Empire managing empire shit. Nothing changes except that the empire eventually fails. Welcome to failure era.

The document in question is a classified US State Department invitation for bids from private contractors and intelligence-linked entities such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and USAID.

It's disappointing as usual to see the libs uncritically worshiping USAID, instead of using this moment to filter the humanitarian from the imperial projects as much as possible.