USAID, Soft Power, And How Solzhenitsyn Predicted This Crisis USAID, Soft Power, And How Solzhenitsyn Predicted This Crisis Via OneLeggedParrot.com, The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) existed to fan America’s post-World War II brand as the guardian of democracy in the world. It was mostly an info-op euphemistically called soft power. The mission …