US President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze the funds of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for 90 days will go a long way toward defanging the Left and Islamists at the global level. USAID and similar organisations have been promoting dangerous people and ideas all over the world. Some such people are in our neighbourhood—Bangladesh Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus and his Islamist cronies who are determined to establish a Taliban regime in Dhaka and reduce the religious minorities to chattels. The decision came a few days after Washington suspended funding to Bangladesh.

The Trump administration has discerned a pattern in the functioning of USAID and other global bodies. Max Primorac, senior research fellow in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at US-based The Heritage Foundation, best summarized the pattern in a report last year: “Good governance practices have been replaced by ideologically driven political agendas, such as diversity, equity, and inclusion, transgenderism, and climate alarmism. Together, these policies have undercut the effectiveness of our economic tools of soft power and enabled China and other malign actors to strengthen their strategic position in the global south."

Specifically about USAID, Primorac wrote: “An example of the radicalization of our aid is USAID’s $45 million, five-year program to promote ‘human rights, social justice, democracy, and inclusive........

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