US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe
https://www.ft.com/content/f8696da1-5fe6-4218-be9c-5309bd9a6ae5
Posted by BkkGrl
US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe
https://www.ft.com/content/f8696da1-5fe6-4218-be9c-5309bd9a6ae5
Posted by BkkGrl
33 Comments
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Kill it in the crib Europe. Don’t let maga get a foothold. It’s cancer.
No thanks.
Don’t let the Americans do anymore damage to our continent
just ban them. together with the pro-ork ones. those who want to restrict our freedoms should not have rights to enjoy them in the first place. EU and democracy should have means to defend themselves or they’d be devoured from the inside.
Keep ’em… we already have enough fascists do deal with.
Need to remind everyone that yankservatism = pedophilia.
So Russia’s fifth column will get an extra income. Will it change much?
Can’t they just be declared “foreign influence on elections” and be classed as a terrorist organisation or something?
„Think“ tanks
re-inventing USAID
The last decade of sudden popping up of american-aligned protestant “churches” in my country has always felt like the first wave of american extremism finding its way here, but I hope that if our politicians show weakness against such financing, Europeans will find other ways to make them understand they should fuck off.
Wtf? This needs to stop. If 1930s Germany jumped in a time machine and ran influence campaigns here they’d be closed down in a second. Grow a pair Europe.
Europe.
Our government has been taken by Russia and oligarchs.
This is how they destroyed the US government and took control of it.
Look up the Heritage Foundation.
They started with us, they are coming for you. You HAVE TO shut this effort down. They will infiltrate your governments and take them as tools of the oligarchy.
We all have to unite against this and destroy the oligarchy.
Foreign interference? Didn’t Trump major on other countries interfering in the US?
Nothing new in this, the US government has always supported organisation which was aligned with their priorities.
We just notice it more now as they have more populist opinions which does not align with how the common European think.
Europe could do something similar for sensible charities in the US?
this is a declaration of war
Foreign agents, working with them must be considered high treason and endangering the integrity of the nation! Prison for all accomplices.
That tracks.
They want to shackle Europe to themselves permanently and bleed it dry. All the more so because they have extensive experience in building these kinds of networks (countless “color revolutions”) as well as in seizing power and grooming a political class.
The EU won’t even be able to properly ban them, getting bogged down in court battles, media subversion, and subtle manipulation.
Think tanks and Maga isn’t really words that go together.
Americans, THIS is the REAL reason why you don’t get anymore SNAP benefits or why you’ve been kicked off your healthcare.0
**State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations**
Anna Gross, Lucy Fisher and David Sheppard in London and Amy Mackinnon in Washington
Published Feb 5 2026
The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.
Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to Europe in December to meet influential rightwing think-tanks and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party about deploying a pot of money to spread American values, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
The funding was linked to the 250th anniversary celebrations of US independence later this year, the people said.
It is likely to cause consternation among Washington’s allies, particularly centre-left governments such as Labour in the UK, which will be concerned that US government funds are being deployed to undermine their policies.
A US official said the programme was a twist on previous state department projects that channelled funding towards specific causes overseas and was likely to focus on initiatives based in London, Paris, Berlin and Brussels.
The Trump administration has sought to drastically scale back US foreign assistance and cuts have fallen heavily on programmes to support good governance, human rights and democracy.
Rogers’ efforts come as the White House has criticised long-standing allies in Europe.
The US national security strategy, released last year, called for “cultivating resistance” to the continent’s current trajectory. The document warned that mass migration and “censorship of free speech” could lead to “civilisational erasure”.
The Trump administration has interpreted efforts in Europe to regulate online content, including on major US social media networks, as an assault on free speech.
The US official said Rogers, who is under-secretary for public diplomacy, had associates across the European “free speech” community prior to entering government, many of whom had been eager to harness the resources and attention of the US administration under Trump.
The person added that she was targeting the UK’s Online Safety Act and the EU’s Digital Services Act.
While the laws are different in scope and content, the official said they were viewed by the Trump administration as “fundamentally American-targeted regulatory schemes” that sought to attack free speech, American industry and the independence of the tech sector.
“The US administration is on a crusade to save Europe,” said one senior Reform UK figure who spoke with Rogers about the plans. “They have a real soft spot for the UK but feel it is under threat from dark forces that are spreading across Europe.”
The UK government has defended the Online Safety Act as crucial for protecting children from harmful online material.
Didn’t they cried that they spend way to much on other countries and that’s why they don’t have free Healthcare? I wonder what they think about this…
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, calling them think-tanks is a bit above their capabilities now isn’t it?
This should be considered hybrid warfare and local actors who take money from them shoukd be registered as foreign agents.
They did say they wanted to influence our elections. Any foreign government attempting to influence our democratic process is unacceptable, hope something is done about this.
Just imagine the shitstorm if the EU openly declared they were going to start influencing American elections.
This should be regarded as an act of foreign interference in internal political processes and thus banned or sanctioned.
Ban them. Defending our society isn’t “violating free speech”.
I hope Europe bans this
Stephen Miller and Bannon pet projects.
Foreign interference from the pedo crew
But no money for healthcare?
No America first?
NO making America Great Again
Just more American tax dollars to fun right wing propagenda and Putin!