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depends on the specifics of their situations. banning english speakers is a good way to prevent being used by the US state department but that might not be practical
do you actually think that the US state department only targets english speakers?
of course not but they're way worse at it especially when the people running the show are the current flavor of racist rather than the woke imperialism kind.
Even if we're taking a slightly goofy approach like this, it might be better to direct hostility to people who are foreign-educated rather than merely knowing English, which in some countries is most people.
I don't really think that'd be effective. The CIA has translators and can recruit native speakers and a lot of historic anti-colonialist organizers were educated in the west and spoke good English (or other colonizer languages) so you're alienating a lot of potentially good allies with that policy.