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it's not weakening; it's reshuffling resources to prioritize china.
It does weakening it temporarily, institutions take time to get properly organized and function efficiently. Think of USAID, while not perfectly efficient it already functioned like an oiled machine, dismantling it to set up a new one will require more work to get it started than just keeping USAID going, with the added risk that the newer thing is not guaranteed to succeed.
agreed and what's happening to usaid is fascinating; its resources are being reshuffled to cointelpro-ing american citizens ... again