American influence might rebound in the Global South since a large part of why many of these countries started turning away from the US since the start of the century was due to it violating their sovereignty by funding “NGOs” that meddle in their affairs.
One of the Executive Orders that Trump just signed suspends some foreign aid for 90 days, specifically “development assistance funds to foreign countries and implementing non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and contractors”, in order to assess their “efficiencies and consistency with US foreign policy”. It remains unclear at the time of writing whether the State Department’s subsequent “stop-work orders” will affect military aid to Ukraine so that possibility won’t be covered in this analysis.
Most foreign aid programs have been exploited to meddle in other countries’ affairs by funding anti-government and even in some cases anti-state movements that later orchestrate Color Revolutions. Even if they’re not taken to that extreme, they at the very least create problems for the implementation of those countries’ domestic and foreign policies by artificially manufacturing grassroots opposition to them, which manipulates perceptions of their popularity and can thus influence national elections.
If we don’t like it when they do it to us, why should we be doing it to them? Good question, eh? Trump suspended the main interference drivers from the US government and dried up the funds going to the secondary NGO drivers. These are the agencies that are causing the unrest and color revolutions in various countries.
By the way, other countries are doing it to us, too, and we don’t like it at all. It appears that our local watermelons are financed by the CCP as well as the racist organizations that rip off their donors to get mansions. So, if everyone could cool their jets, perhaps the nastiness around the world would cease to exist.