Jack of Harts

A Color Revolution is generally some kind of outside-organized movement dedicated to overthrowing an existing government. Some outside group funds a minority group in a nation and encourages them to demonstrate against the government they don’t like. Or they fund journalists who dig up dirty laundry and publish it for all to read. There are often calls to resist the government, sometimes violently.

Violence is often sparked by agents planted in a demonstration, or sometimes outside looking in. Sometimes flashbangs are thrown into the demonstration to anger them, or there is the tried and true method of just attacking them with sticks. Sometimes people inside the crowd exhort them to violence with bullhorns. Volunteers may hand out frozen water bottles “so the protestors can drink,” or pallets of bricks might be delivered to nearby sidewalks hours before the protest. No doubt for all the construction taking place in the area.

Other times assassins shoot the leader. This can be preceded by inexplicable vulnerabilities in the leader’s protection details. The shooter usually either has a long history of crazy statements they’ve made so everybody can be comfortable that this was just a crazy person who went off his meds. But sometimes there is nothing. Just silence. Like they were never on the internet at all. Sometimes it is a perfect assassin, and sometimes it is a first time offender.

At other times, the Color Revolution ends with the army just saying they can’t protect the leader and stepping back to let the people bring him down. And some times the leader gets on a plane or helicopter to get out of the capital before they get him. And then an opponent takes over and promises to bring peace and prosperity and normality back to the life of the people. They rarely do. They usually jail or kill their political opposition. Or the previous leader if they can reach him. Often both.

There is a long and rich history of Color Revolutions. And almost always they are funded from outside the nation. Sometimes from opposition groups from within a nation, but normally from outside. Where does the funding come from? Well… take a look at who USAID makes a practice of funding. You might find that… interesting reading…

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