• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Don’t worry, socialist country. A totally organic and fully domestic Color Revolution is here to save you.

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      17 days ago

      Anytime anyone is ever unhappy with a government it is 100% the CIA because people have no agency of their own and every state is a utopia.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        17 days ago

        It’s trivial to go to a country and find people who are unhappy with the local government.

        It is comparatively quite difficult to find people who are enthusiastically in favor of a foreign military providing air support in a hostile takeover of the capital.

        US Media loves to conflate the former with the later as justification for the next round of imperial incursions.

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        16 days ago

        Democratically elected socialist governments being violently overthrown by the US is an extremely well documented phenomenon actually, you should try reading a book about it some time

        • Unruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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          14 days ago

          The trouble is that it’s also an awfully convenient excuse for non-western authoritarian states to clamp down on so-called ‘color revolutions’, even when they are organic. And the fact this whole theory was concocted by Lydon LaRouche does not exactly add credibility. I acknowledge there have been obvious cases of this happening, but there’s also many examples of oppressive regimes blaming popular uprisings on “outside agitators”.