By analogy with stacks, my intuition is that Spec(N) still has a one-dimensional geometry, but with a (-1)-dimensional tier from quotienting out the prime points by a semiring action.
Upvoted. USAID has been misused plenty: political meddling in Bangladesh, Cuba's ZunZuneo op, boomerang aid in Haiti, Afghan contractor enrichment, etc. I could go on.
But understand: the soft power isn't going away, just the doctors, food shipments, and vaccines.