Grim has been covering the CIA/USAID (and possibly Soros network?) plots to foment a color revolution.
In America.
This is commentary on the DataRepublican expose, including video of what has been said by both retired and active members of government about declaring our government illegitimate, giving reason to ignore constitutional protections. It is as chilling an account about the future of the Republic as I have read. These are people who very much know what they are doing, as they have done it before in other countries.
I don't usually link to an ongoing series. In fact, I don't think I ever have.
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I would like to be clear that I am explicitly NOT suggesting that the CIA is behind a plot to overthrow the US government. I'm suggesting that networks of people outside the government, who were trained in these techniques, may be trying to do it independently.
This is the story of the attempt in Serbia I mentioned obliquely. Serbia was one of the first successful CIA-backed Color Revolutions, during the Bush II era. However, it has for almost a decade lately been targeted independently by the NGOs around the Soros network. Soros' team funded the set up of a collection of media resources called United Media, whose figurehead was also funded sufficiently to allow him to buy a British "football" (soccer) team and thus hobnob with celebrity athletes and look glamorous. The UM network attacked the government and its QUANGO state media called Telekom Serbia as puppets of Russia; they fomented and, behind the scenes, organized street protests against the government; they leveraged the UN to try to get the official media banned or suppressed under freedom of the press rubrics; they accused their opponents in all the broadsheets of being Russian puppets, sure to bring everyone under neo-Soviet authority; all the rest as well.
That one didn't work, which is the good news part. These things don't always work. That one just blew a bunch of money and ultimately failed. Now, part of its ultimate failure might be that USAID was defunded/dissolved by Musk/Trump, so the endless funds that were once available dried up. The NGO networks are the center of gravity here, as in Europe and elsewhere where they have been deployed in support of these things. The face organizations aren't the core, and it is likely before DataRepublican's efforts that most Americans had never even heard of the actual core organizations.
A fair distinction that I should have highlighted. What you are describing is white/light gray/dark gray/black, admitting nescience on what the real story is, and current officials/former officials/friends of officials/allies in common - let us try to connect what dots we can, identifying which lines are solid and which are dotted. This is in territory where such distinctions are already murky, where career intelligence sources are convinced that a particular faction in Turkey should be encouraged even through hard times or eliminated even when they pretend to be our friends for a week. They may turn out to be wrong or manipulated (see David Halberstam and VietNam), but their knowledge is not random. They might be in the habit of undermining certain aspects of American policy for decent reasons, because of the long-term gain...and have been right in the past.
Thank you. I sometimes gloss over important points.
You may know that Malcolm Pollack has picked up this theme at Motus Mentis. I've just commented there that a "color revolution" aims to provoke a "crackdown" that a sympathetic media can frame as "police brutality." No claim to originality in this. A spectacular example in my view is the "crackdown" in Gaza that has likely permanently damaged the legitimacy of the Israeli state. This did not begin with "mostly peaceful protests," but it did begin with a widespread sense that Palestinians have "legitimate grievances." Despite the Israelis' reputation for shrewdness, the main victim of their ferocious crackdown may turn out to be themselves. My scenario for a color revolution stateside is that the Federal Government ramps up the Iran war after the election, the Left suddenly remembers it is anti-war, and the Administration overreacts with a "crackdown" that revolts public opinion. The war is already unpopular, so the expressed grievances of the protestors will appear legitimate, even if the protestors themselves are rather vile. This already played out once with the ICE riots in Minneapolis.
Mr. Smith, you are the Orthosphere fellow, are you not? I talk about your posts from time to time at the Hall.
You share an opinion with a friend of mine, Dr. Robert Oprisko, who thinks the Israelis have thrown away their strategic communication platform of 'oppressed minority set upon by hostile forces' by showing how much power they have -- not only in Gaza, but in Iran. I don't quite agree with him; I think I agree with one Osama bin Laden, on the very limited and particular subject of the region respecting the strong horse. I don't think Israel ends up weaker here. I do think the war restarts, possibly before election day.
Grim: Yes, I'm the Orthosphere fellow. I need to start following your posts. You are right to say that humans are awed by power and so tend to fall in line behind the "strong horse." I suspect this instinct to docility in the face of power is at the bottom of all human society. But we, or at least many of us, have a second instinct to justice, and so perceive a difference between a good and bad king. While resisting the simple inversion of underdogism, we know that might is not in every case right. All who are crushed do not deserve to be crushed. We are controlled through this instinct for justice just as often as we are controlled through our instinct to awe and docility in the face of power. Given the right camera angle, framing, and background music, the arrest of a loathsome street criminal can be made to look like an indictment of a cruel and tyrannical state.
I may have spoken too soon on Serbia; the 'student-led' movement seems to have won the elections over the weekend and replaced the government. Also in Brazil, a sudden surge of votes kept the Communists in power in spite of expectations.
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