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SoftPower/FulStories

SoftPower/FulStories

Christopher Wurst
Date de sortie : 2026-06-26
© Christopher Wurst
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68 épisodes
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Date de sortie : 2026-06-26
© Christopher Wurst
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#45 - Nicholas Enrich

#45 - Nicholas Enrich

On February 3, 2025, Elon Musk posted this on X: "We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone [sic] to some great parties. Did that instead." It's safe to say that no one needed Musk's savage imagery. It's also worth pointing ou
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On February 3, 2025, Elon Musk posted this on X: "We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone [sic] to some great parties. Did that instead."
It's safe to say that no one needed Musk's savage imagery. It's also worth pointing out that by now--a year later--the barely-trained, Musk-led forces at the Trump Administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have directly cost the jobs of over a quarter of a million people worldwide and have, according to several published models, led to nearly 800,000 deaths worldwide, including more than half a million children.
We may never know exact numbers, but we do know that these harrowing figures were the result of a toxic mix of cruelty, arrogance, incompetence, ego, and ignorance.
We know this, in part, because Nick Enrich, USAID's then-Acting Assistant Administrator of Global Health, had a front-row seat to the devastation and refused to stay quiet about what he saw. His book--'Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower's Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID'--defies belief, but serves as an invaluable document and bears witness to a still unfolding atrocity.
'SoftPower/FulStories' uses first-person stories to explore why U.S. engagement in the world matters. Through conversations with diplomats, aid workers, Peace Corps volunteers, authors and artists, influencers, businesspeople, and more, SP/FS highlights how soft power and foreign aid and assistance strengthen America's security, prosperity, and global standing. But forget politics, policy, or punditry; this is all about the stories.
Id. d’épisode : 1000774275360
GUID : a26f7a71-12c4-4607-885a-976104d1fccf
Date de publication : 26/6/2026 à 05:00:00

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Epic weekly tales from every corner of the globe. Forget politics, academia, or the office, these are "soft, powerful stories" told by those who lived them. Is what happens in Kinshasa really important in Kansas? Should an Idahoan care about the problems of an Indonesian? (The answer is yes, but...) SP/FS gives the human story center stage. People can debate the virtues of global soft power, but no one--from Osaka to Omaha to Ouagadougou--can deny the magic of these encounters. Each episode begins and ends in the United States—with a foreign adventure in between.

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