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
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”.
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.
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.
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
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”.
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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.