I'm wondering what our take on this is.
Here's an example on libsky . It reads as genuinely frustrated. However I've seen this same line trotted out by NAFO about Ukraine and how it's impossible it's being directed by the US Government, because people have agency (making it Russian propaganda/"shallow analysis").
I feel like there's a small point being made, obviously not all groups funded by America/American proxies are incapable of acting alone.
In any given society that's in a state of conflict (which is true of all class societies) there will always be groups that hold some position or another, some will be religious regressives, revolutionaries, industrialists, financiers, compradors, etc. The fact that an external power can come and grant one of those groups enormous power is actually the action that denies the people agency. Without that interference, the group that can gain majority support will just naturally have a path to achieving its goals.