USAID: How 'United States Agency for International Colonisation' Operates in India
20:10 11.02.2025 (Updated: 20:19 11.02.2025)
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Former State Department official Mike Benz claims USAID had funded the regime change in Bangladesh last year. Sputnik India examines if these revelations should worry India.
India should remain alert about the nefarious activities of the US Deep State even after American President Donald Trump's campaign to 'destabilise' agencies connected to it, experts have said.
Former US State Department official Mike Benz recently alleged in an interview with Tucker Carlson that United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was involved in funding regime change in Bangladesh. Last year on August 5, then-Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina was ousted from power after a student uprising against her rule turned violent.
These revelations raise serious concerns for India, particularly given that the federally ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has previously expressed suspicions that the Deep State was attempting to destabilise India, including during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Binay Kumar Singh, a Senior Research Fellow of Strategic Studies at the BJP-affiliated Shyama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation told Sputnik India.
Former US State Department official Mike Benz recently alleged in an interview with Tucker Carlson that United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was involved in funding regime change in Bangladesh. Last year on August 5, then-Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina was ousted from power after a student uprising against her rule turned violent.
These revelations raise serious concerns for India, particularly given that the federally ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has previously expressed suspicions that the Deep State was attempting to destabilise India, including during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Binay Kumar Singh, a Senior Research Fellow of Strategic Studies at the BJP-affiliated Shyama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation told Sputnik India.
"The US Agency for International Development has long been presented as a humanitarian organisation aimed at promoting global development, democracy, and economic progress. However, given its consistent involvement in geopolitical interventions and regime change operations, perhaps it would be more appropriately named the US Agency for International Colonisation [USAIC]," Singh stressed.
One crucial observation is that US President Donald Trump has frequently been at odds with the Deep State, he said, which proves that even the White House may not always be in full control of America's clandestine operations abroad.
This divergence between elected leadership and entrenched power structures underscores the reality that the Deep State operates beyond democratic oversight, often shaping US foreign policy to serve its own interests rather than those of the American people, the pundit emphasised.
As a global superpower, the United States carries a unique moral and strategic responsibility to foster global stability and peace, Singh asserted.
As a global superpower, the United States carries a unique moral and strategic responsibility to foster global stability and peace, Singh asserted.
"However, history suggests that instead of working toward these ideals, the Deep State has actively fueled conflicts and manipulated geopolitical landscapes to benefit powerful corporate and military-industrial interests. Whether through orchestrated coups, colour revolutions, or economic coercion, its interventions have often sown chaos rather than stability," the geopolitical analyst pointed out.
The criminal track record of the Deep State extends across continents, from Latin America to the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, he highlighted. Countries that do not align with the US strategic objectives often find themselves targeted through a mix of economic pressure, intelligence-led subversion, and direct intervention, Singh emphasised.
This raises the question of whether sovereignty is truly respected in a world where unelected power centers dictate political outcomes, Singh inquired.
The revelations made by Benz, who worked for the US State Department during Trump's first from 2017 to 2021, aren't surprising because the USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), were instrumental in destabilising Bangladesh and ensuring a regime change in Dhaka, Savio Rodrigues, a former BJP spokesperson of Goa, told Sputnik India.
Both organisations, as well as various other NGOs affiliated to the American Deep State were also working to create strife in India, which isn't a no longer a secret, he pointed out.
Both organisations, as well as various other NGOs affiliated to the American Deep State were also working to create strife in India, which isn't a no longer a secret, he pointed out.
Rodrigues emphasised that both the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests and the farmer demonstrations against the now-repealed farm laws were primarily instigated by the US Deep State, with entities such as USAID, NED, and the CIA playing a significant role.
"There is no doubt that USAID made attempts to create animosity against the government, inciting mass movements against the current administration, in a bid to destabilise Prime Minister Narendra Modi's policies that are intrinsic to Bharat's rise as a global power," the BJP politician stated.
Manipur is another glaring example of the involvement of US agencies and organisations like NED trying to stir trouble in India, he stated, adding that India should remain alert to their activities on its soil.
He asserted that India is aware of how the CIA, USAID, and NED have been operating in the country, and the government is keeping a close eye on their efforts to create conflict in the country. Trump has already made the first move by shutting down USAID, which was the apparatus — or rather the hub — due to its stranglehold on finances for such meddling, the strategic affairs commentator stated.
"Nonetheless, India must stay alert as Trump will work for the interest of America and its people, which means that he will look at India from the perspective that benefits the US. Therefore, there's little doubt that Trump will work to destabilise the Deep State but will have a 'State' of his own," Rodrigues concluded.
