And people will still continue that ‘Conspiracy theorists are nutjobs’ rhetoric.
Yes, don’t get me wrong, believing that there are lizard people or aliens pulling the strings is questionable. But when somebody points at something highly suspicious and says, “hey, look at this, isn’t that weird?” if your first response is, “go get your tinfoil hat” then you’re being closeminded. So much in the Epstein files was called years and years ago, and even today people are reluctant to believe it.
While I’ve absolutely no doubt the CIA does all sorts of heinous shit around the world, I just don’t buy the theory behind so-called color revolutions. If the CIA were able to incite populist revolutions on a whim, there would be a LOT more of them. Sure, they do their very best to encourage them, but you need more than just guns and money to build a movement big enough to topple a government. You need a lot of people.
IMO in most claimed cases of ‘color revolutions’, the local sentiment was already there, just waiting for an inciting event. I do agree that US sanctions can help create those types of conditions, but once that happens its looking a lot more like a standard US regime change operation rather than a color revolution created by CIA psyops tbh.
But more importantly, from an anarchist perspective, it’s suspiciously convenient and self-serving to immediately blame every popular uprising against AES authoritarian states on the CIA, rather than on whichever oppressive regime is actually running the country. Iran is a perfect example of that. Cuba has also been under sanctions for decades without turning into a vile theocracy that treats women like property. So long as governments treat their citizens well, like Cuba generally does, a “color revolution” will never be possible there.
Btw, the theory of color revolutions was an invention of infamous conspiracy theorist, and perennial presidential candidate, Lyndon LaRouche. There’s a good (quite long) video on this topic here if anyone wants to go down the rabbit hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OFyn_KSy80.
And people will still continue that ‘Conspiracy theorists are nutjobs’ rhetoric.
Yes, don’t get me wrong, believing that there are lizard people or aliens pulling the strings is questionable. But when somebody points at something highly suspicious and says, “hey, look at this, isn’t that weird?” if your first response is, “go get your tinfoil hat” then you’re being closeminded. So much in the Epstein files was called years and years ago, and even today people are reluctant to believe it.
While I’ve absolutely no doubt the CIA does all sorts of heinous shit around the world, I just don’t buy the theory behind so-called color revolutions. If the CIA were able to incite populist revolutions on a whim, there would be a LOT more of them. Sure, they do their very best to encourage them, but you need more than just guns and money to build a movement big enough to topple a government. You need a lot of people.
IMO in most claimed cases of ‘color revolutions’, the local sentiment was already there, just waiting for an inciting event. I do agree that US sanctions can help create those types of conditions, but once that happens its looking a lot more like a standard US regime change operation rather than a color revolution created by CIA psyops tbh.
But more importantly, from an anarchist perspective, it’s suspiciously convenient and self-serving to immediately blame every popular uprising against AES authoritarian states on the CIA, rather than on whichever oppressive regime is actually running the country. Iran is a perfect example of that. Cuba has also been under sanctions for decades without turning into a vile theocracy that treats women like property. So long as governments treat their citizens well, like Cuba generally does, a “color revolution” will never be possible there.
Btw, the theory of color revolutions was an invention of infamous conspiracy theorist, and perennial presidential candidate, Lyndon LaRouche. There’s a good (quite long) video on this topic here if anyone wants to go down the rabbit hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OFyn_KSy80.