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are tough for America’s “color revolution” industry. Perfected in Eastern
Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union, and honed during the so-called
“Arab Spring,” the process of backing subversion in a targeted country and
overthrowing a sitting government under the cover of staged mass protests
appears to be finally at the end of running its course.
That is because the
United States can no longer hide the fact that it is behind these protests and
often, even hide their role in the armed elements that are brought in covertly
to give targeted governments their final push out the door. Nations have learned
to identify, expose, and resist this tactic, and like Adolf Hitler and the
Nazi regime’s tactic of Blitzkrieg or “lighting war,” once appropriate
countermeasures are found, the effectiveness of lighting fast, overwhelming
force be it military or political, is rendered impotent.
This was most
recently observed in Armenia during the so-called “Electric Yerevan” protests
– Yerevan being the capital of Armenia, and “electric” in reference to the
alleged motivation of protesters – rising electric prices.
American-backed
“color revolutions” always start out with a seemingly legitimate motivation,
but soon quickly become political in nature, sidestepping many of the
legitimate, practical demands first made, and focusing almost entirely on
“regime change.” For the Armenian agitators leading the “Electric Yerevan,”
they didn’t even make it that far and spent most of their initial momentum
attempting to convince the world they were not just another US-backed mob.
The
Stealth Coup
Nikol Pashinyan and
his “Civic Contract” party are transparently US-backed. So many found it
suspicious that he was the most prominent voice insisting that the “Electric
Yerevan” was not political and by no means a US-backed movement.
Verelq, an
Armenian-based news website which inexplicably links to the US State
Department’s Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Armenian site, would report in
their article, “Nikol Pashinyan:
Protest actions in Yerevan are of exclusively social nature,” that:
“Even if you look at the ongoing processes through the
microscope, you cannot see any foreign political or domestic political
components in the demonstrations. People do not want electricity to grow in
price. That’s all,” said Pashinyan. He said electric power is first of all a
product: the Electric Networks sells it and the citizens buy it. “The protest
actions should be considered as protection of consumers’ rights. Politics is
nowhere near,” he said.
But politics were
very near, including politicians like Pashinyan himself, who made it a point
to visit jailed protesters throughout the failed uprising and even at one
point called for the construction of a “human wall” of prominent Armenian
personalities between protesters and police. US State Department-funded
Armenia Now (of the
New Times Journalist Training Center) reported in their article, “Politics
in the Middle: Lawmakers, public figures form “human wall” between police,
protesters,” that:
The appeal to create a human wall was made by opposition
lawmaker Nikol Pashinyan late on Tuesday as he urged all former and current
MPs, scholars, show-biz representatives, lawyers, reporters, religious
representatives and other public figures to visit the standoff site in order
to ensure no force is applied against the protesters.
Other obvious ties
between the protests, Pashinyan, and US-backed NGOs have been laid out by
geopolitical analyst Andrew Korybko in his article, “‘Electric
Yerevan’ is Sliding Out of Control.”
Despite these
links, some have attempted to claim Pashinyan was merely an opportunist and
that his US-backing, and attempts by US NGOs to manipulate the protests had
little to do with the protests themselves. But nothing could be further from
the truth.
Stealth
Agitators
America’s next
generation of “color revolutions” attempt to obfuscate all possible ties
between themselves and their agitators in an attempt to take back the
strategic initiative by maintaining maximum plausible deniability. But if one
knows where to look, they will find that no amount of obfuscation and
subterfuge can cover the links between the US State Department and its mobs.
The protests were
the work of the “No To Plunder” group, led by lawyers and activists
emanating from the US State Department National Endowment for Democracy (NED),
USAID, and Open Society-funded Armenian
Young Lawyers Association (AYLA) and the Helsinki Citizens’
Assembly Vanadzor Office who openly coordinated efforts with “No To
Plunder” to pressure the government on a number of issues.
At least 2 members
of AYLA, Ara Gharagyozyan and Arthur Kocharyan, were identified as core
members of “No To Plunder.” AYLA’s news website “Iravaban” would list a number of
young lawyers and activists attending one of its
internship programs in 2014. Iravaban would also cover the protests in
intricate detail from start to end, as well as report on activities AYLA and
the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor Office undertook to support the
protests.
A number of other
pro-protest “news sites” included Hetq,
which while it admits it is funded by convicted financial criminal George
Soros’ Open Society Foundation, does not list the US NED as a sponsor – NED however does list
Hetq. There is also Media.am,
funded by USAID as well as the European Endowment for Democracy. All of this
adds up to a large network of locally-based but foreign funded and directed
media outlets that help add the illusion of consensus to disinformation spread
regarding the protests.
Together with
US-funded training programs indoctrinating students and training lawyers and
activists in the finer arts of sedition, then allowing them to go off on their
own to lead mobs, the US believes sufficient plausible deniability has been
created to hide ties between themselves and protest leaders. Similar efforts
have been made in both Hong Kong and more recently in Thailand, where overtly
US-backed mobs have been replaced by students trained, then unleashed by
US-proxies.
Despite this
careful arrangement, the “Electric Yerevan” protests never reached critical
mass. The reason for this is simple – they were suspected of being US-backed
and the more overt US assets that would eventually need to move in to lead the
protests were unable to, lest they confirmed that suspicion and undermined the
entire effort. Without these more mainstream assets moving in and providing
support, larger protests are logistically and politically impossible.
How
to Shoot Down a Stealth Coup
Russia’s emerging
media influence on the world stage played an essential role in unmasking and
disrupting America’s efforts to destabilize and overthrow the government in
Armenia. The ability to be one step ahead of the Western-narrative and expose
the players before they even take to the stage, meant that people already knew
what to look for.
When the protesters
hit the streets, and as the protests dragged on, US NGOs and Western media
reports supporting the protests confirmed initial Russian warnings. When
clumsy, overt assets like Pashinyan began getting involved, there was little
doubt that electrical prices, while a real point of contention, were being
used as a means to create a larger, more disruptive, and ultimately dangerous
attempt at foreign-backed regime change.
In the future, the
government of Armenia should be careful about giving such points of contention
for foreign interests to use in the first place – meaning that dedication to
economic and social progress cannot be ignored, even if one is confident they
can tamp down potential protests.
Other nations
around the world have a lot to learn from how Russia disrupted this latest
attempt by America to project power beyond its shores and disrupt the lives of
a sovereign people thousands of miles away. By simply informing people of what
is really going on, following the money, and exposing the players involved,
people in Armenia were able to assess for themselves whether or not to support
the mobs – they chose wisely not to. Were Armenia to adopt similar laws as
Russia’s regarding NGOs – mandating that they declare openly and often their
foreign funding – people can better assess whether or not mobs these NGOs are
supporting are truly marching for their interests, or Wall Street and
Washington’s.
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