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So glad we can both appreciate how well organised mass protests can be when everyone works together. If you're going to insinuate something else, I'd suggest y
by computerfriend 4y ago
So glad we can both appreciate how well organised mass protests can be when everyone works together.
If you're going to insinuate something else, I'd suggest you get some actual evidence first. Just saying "colour revolution" or whatever is intellectually lazy, as well as being dishonest and dismissive about people who are risking their lives and liberty.
- jimbob45 4y agoI can’t name a single insurrection in the past 300 years that didn’t have significant foreign financing and support from the beginning. America’s 1776 insurrection was heavily financed by the French. The 1918 Russian Revolution could not have been won without help from the Germans. Castro wasn’t going anywhere without Russian support. The Hong Kong protests were backed by the US. Israel destroyed Middle Eastern stability with the Arab Spring. I just don’t know why this childlike notion that well-coordinated protests are organic persists. It may have been true in medieval times but not today. I can draw you a clear pattern of foreign interference in similar protests with hundreds of data points. Even if this one was completely organic, it would be a staggeringly outlying data point.
- computerfriend 4y agoYour understanding of how the world works is simplistic and wrong. Happy for you and your datapoints, no need for the drawing.
- Slava_Propanei 4y ago
- danenania 4y agoIt's also lazy because every spy agency is drawn to unrest in a rival country like a moth to a flame. Regardless of how pure a movement is, it will quickly attract foreign interest and influence as it grows. So this is ultimately just an easy way to dismiss any challenge to the status quo.