"Color revolution" is a term for western-backed regime change operations disguised as a revolution. Basically, intelligence agencies create protest movements in countries where they want to change the government, while working on a coup. This gives them the appearance of a democratic transition. The Maidan movement in Ukraine is an example of a successful color revolution.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, and the term color comes from the fact the US literally makes shirts, flags and other stuff to match a certain color for "revolution". As seen in Georgia's Rose Revolution (2003), Ukraine's Orange Revolution (2004), Kyrgyzstan's Tulip Revolution (2005) and Armenia's Velvet Revolution (2018).

[–] HexaSnoot@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I only know about the Nazi problem resulting from US activity in Ukraine. With each color revolution is it the US's goal to spread Nazism in that country which it takes place in?

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

With each color revolution is it the US's goal to spread Nazism in that country which it takes place in?

I guess their goal is to install goverments that are friendly towards the USA and the West. If the local nazis are friendly towards the US, the US will support the nazis.

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

Yes. When you intensify the false scarcity most people will experience under capitalism you also have to create racial scapegoats to split any mass movement that would otherwise attack the bourgeoisie.

Although they will say otherwise, the only reason American elites do anything (particularly in another country) is to extract profit from workers. Necessarily, this leaves these workers living with greater precarity and with fewer resources to direct towards their needs. The Nazis are there (and supported by the US) to kill the communists that might point out the enemies are the rich and not jews or some other minority. If the American rich cared about workers anywhere they would do things like drastically raise the minimum wage throughout their own country and use state power to ensure all people are receiving adequate healthcare and are able to easily organize unions.

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

I think them "creating protest movements" is too simplistic, it's more about cultivating sleeper cells that can hijack public discontent. From my observations the trend is this:

The United States (now also the EU) fund various aligned NGOs in a periphery country. These pro-Western NGOs are way better funded than others and can pull off protests, media coverage, etc.
Those countries have internal contradictions and systemic injustices, discontent rises.
One day something triggers protests. Government violence (sometimes provoked by protesters) then leads to bigger protests.
The pro-Western NGOs and activists are able to throw all their capital and expertise into it. They often emphasise vague feel-goods like anti-corruption and human rights that's conducive to big-tent coalitions.
Their neoliberal beliefs are more compatible with the status quo than more radical proposals. Lack of class consciousness and political naivete often leads to reducing the structural issues to bad actors rather than institutional biases.
Western media and politicians put pressure too, for obvious reasons.
If the established politicians are truly corrupt opportunists and don't care, they can just give in and fuck off with their money to somewhere else, withdraw in the background, or switch sides.
The new neoliberal order often ends up being the same, but with private corruption instead of state corruption and windowdressing over substantive reform.

[–] HexaSnoot@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

Sounds like what the US did to Ukraine, the US would do to the entire world if it could. That's truly disturbing.