🧵THREAD: I dug up archived USAID-funded Internews Annual Reports.

Here’s how this nonprofit played a crucial role in regime change across Eastern Europe in service of NATO expansion—then turned its tactics inward, calling for censorship in the West.

A deep dive👇 pic.twitter.com/kyATSAFabg

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 10, 2025

Let’s start in 2001. ⬇️

2/ The 2001 Internews Annual Report states:

"Internews is one of the more successful agents of change in the former Soviet Union." – The Washington Post

They worked to establish independent media in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Serbia, and beyond—fueling… pic.twitter.com/Ec9e65F3rR

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 10, 2025

4/ In the 1990s, Internews partnered with the Soros Foundation to fund media organizations in post-Soviet nations, playing a pivotal role in the color revolutions of the 2000s in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine.

Their goal? To steer these countries toward NATO and Western control. pic.twitter.com/mtCtkBaZKZ

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 10, 2025

6/ By 2003, in Ukraine, Internews had:

▪️ Conducted 220 media training programs
▪️ Trained over 2,800 journalists
▪️ Produced 220+ TV programs & 1,000+ radio programs
▪️ Funded Telekritika, an online outlet central to the 2004 Orange Revolution

The result? A Western-aligned… pic.twitter.com/KJeeKlMVdW

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 10, 2025

8/ By 2007, Internews had:

▪️ Trained 60,000 journalists worldwide
▪️ Established 2,500+ independent media outlets
▪️ Reached an audience of nearly 1 BILLION people
▪️ Advocated for media laws in 21 countries
▪️ Operated in 70 countries with offices in 42 cities

This was media… pic.twitter.com/XXrsBde15e

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 10, 2025

16/ The irony is staggering.

Internews was founded during the Cold War to foster open dialogue between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

It was meant to reduce hostilities between East and West.

Instead, USAID and Western elites transformed it into a propaganda machine for NATO… pic.twitter.com/ip4Q98xR4i

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 10, 2025

18/ The reality is, USAID didn’t just fund foreign interventions.

They helped create a global information control apparatus—one that can be turned on any population at any time.

What started in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine came home to target Brexit supporters, MAGA voters, and… pic.twitter.com/qq894ldUPs

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 10, 2025