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Just like when Robinhood shut down their platform to save the hedge funds. Aha, OK.
Congratulations! You've successfully overthrown your government in a CIA-backed coup! Now here's the HR lady you meet at the end of your journey who tells you how your new government will work.
Let’s talk about color revolutions.
A key tactic, if not the very essence of color-revolution strategy, is to find a latent wedge issue, then climb down into the crowd and worry it like a loose tooth. Psy-operators don’t invent disagreement; they exacerbate it. They amplify a culture’s most emotionally fractious fault line —foreign wars, corruption, identity, legitimacy— then frame it as a betrayal by leadership and a moral test for followers. The goal isn’t persuasion. It’s fragmentation. Confusion. Conflict. Fatigue.
People don’t need to be persuaded to switch sides; they just have to be battered into staying home. This provides the psy-operators with the vacuum they can fille with their astroturfed protests— and rest of the now-familiar formula.
You can easily spot the initial moves. The messaging always sounds oddly intimate and disappointed, dripping with saccharine sympathy —“many supporters are uneasy,” “the base is divided,” “longtime allies express concern.” This isn’t reporting; it’s virtual crowd infiltration. The wedge is being quietly screwed in, so it can later be publicly hammered until distrust feels organic and disengagement feels virtuous.
Seen through that lens, the Democrats’ recurring “MAGA fracture” narrative isn’t commentary at all. It’s a poorly disguised destabilization technique— aimed inwards at us this time instead of at some hapless African country where Christians and Muslims are trying to live in peace. For us, with better fonts and a soothing, reptilian tone.
We have a terrific example.
In 2014, Ukrainians were politically divided: Western Ukrainians leaned toward Europe, and Eastern Ukrainians were economically, linguistically, and culturally tied to Russia. The CIA got involved. The dry political tinder was inflamed into a white-hot social media conflagration. There was perhaps no better symbol of our meddling than Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, Viktoria Nuland, who was caught literally handing out cookies and bread —you can’t make this stuff up— to astroturfed protesters in Kyiv’s ‘Maidan’ (Independence Square) during the demonstrations.
Soon after Vikkie tossed her cookies, Ukraine’s democratically elected pro-Russian government was overthrown, and a decade+ of war began. In one infamous leaked call, Nuland can be heard selecting the overthrown president’s replacement. You’re welcome.
Is it any surprise that unemployed USAID workers, fired State Department weasels, and their NGO allies are now trying to turn MAGA against itself, in the exact same way that they got the Eastern and Western Ukrainians to fight each other and destabilize their democratically elected government?
We must be vigilant about this. The temptation to factionalism is strong, especially when real disagreements exist, and the psy-operators start tossing hot potatoes. Which is their job. And they do it well.
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