the “chaotic gutting” of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US Agency for Global Media – which oversees Voice of America and Radio Free Asia – as moves that have weakened US power and influence.

They are really mad that the empire’s own tools for foreign interference and propaganda are being undermined.

Yeah, it’s the least surprising thing ever. I’m sure I’ve probably mentioned it before, but the founder of the suffragette movement was an anti-communist who expelled all socialists after WW1. Many former suffragettes ended up becoming fascists and even held positions in the British Union of Fascists. The effect this had on post-suffragette feminism in the UK can still be felt today. It’s no surprise that many TERFs still use the suffragette flag.