Obvious ops in HK, Lebanon, and Belarus as well as a world-wide psyop against China. It's pretty insane, honestly. The Imperialists are scared and are desperately trying to gain more colonial holdings in an attempt to safe their future. Dark times.

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    In Lebanon and Belarus the people's anger is definitely legitimate, but you can definitely count on the CIA, five eyes intelligence and private "political consultancy firms" to try co opt it into some imperialist nonsense

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      Yeah no doubt. Lukashenko isn't really good, he's just not a western puppet. You also can't tell me that with the system they have that he's won legitimately that many times in a row lol.

      Lebanon is a bit different. It seems like there is more CIA activity there, though society is factional in general so anti-hezbollah sentiment is bound to make an appearance and Western media is bound to focus on it.

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        I mean Lukashenko constantly plays the west and Russia against each other. Saying shit like he's Putin's favourite son and shit like that. In Lebanon government incompetence lead to a 1.5 KT explosion (1/10th of the nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima, comparable to a modern tactical nuclear weapon, which has a yield between 0.5KT to 6KT) and along with the economic collapse people oviously have every right to be very angry at the government. Oviously Macron and co do not have good intentions in Lebanon, and there's definitely been some ops happening there for the past few months. But seriously what non western nation doesn't have at least 5 CIA ops happening at the same time within their borders?

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          western nations have 5 just in case they need to pull a Whitlam, non-westerns have like 30.

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    Its just the brain worms, fash and chuds doing their thing, Id rather don't overthink it.

    There is a tendency in leftist spheres of blaming the CIA for everything, like an omnipotent demon, IMO we loose perspective with this sort of mindset.

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      it's important to remember that the CIA are lying liars who lie. they're not actually hypercompetent-that's an image that they actively cultivate.

      like, they're totally that evil. but I'm not sure they're that good.

      • Ronalpinhos [none/use name]
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        100%

        This image of a super organization that can do all sort of powerful moves is propaganda. They are just pigs with a degree and some money to bribe people. Not saying they are insignificant but It shouldn't be the first think you think of when things are going badly.

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          yep. and if you find one; absolutely treat it like you would any other pig, but, like, they still can't talk theory for shit. and they're still having problems hiring people who aren't white.

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      CIA fingers typed this post

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    I doubt the protests in Lebanon are an op, their economy is in a serious crisis right now and then to top it all off there was that huge explosion in the port that killed hundreds of people and was most likely caused by gross negligence. I think the people of Lebanon are rightfully pissed at their government.

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      Both can be true though. Intelligence agencies have a long history of using rightful public anger against their governments to achieve their goals in a country. See basically every color revolution and Solidarity in Poland.

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        If anything I would more likely think it was mossad than CIA doing some If this. Lebanon and Israel were on very awkward terms just before the explosion so it would Stand to reason they take advantage.

        CIA is Too busy still trying to figure out how to depose Maduro lol.

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          That dude admitting to it being a failed coup attempt on twitter was the funniest shit I've seen this year.

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        Why would western intelligence fund an antigovernment protest when the government's first step after the blast was to call Macron and the IMF?

        • hagensfohawk [none/use name]
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          It's not "funding a protest." Who said that shit.

          But they are absolutely figuring out how to shape the nature of the protests. Play both sides and you can never lose.

  • Owl [he/him]
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    Calling it now, over half of these are not the CIA at all and are instead privately-owned political influence and marketing companies.

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        Which style of bullshit they had to convince someone of to get the job. CIA is careerist jingoists hired by jingoistic careerists. Political marketing companies have to sell their services to a corporation by speaking the right corporate newspeak. This affects what sort of approach and capabilities you should expect them to have. CIA is mostly going to try to find people who seem like the "right sort" and give them guns. The corporate approach is basically the same sort of folks who ran the Hillary campaign, so their capabilities are... well, about as effective as her campaign.

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        The CIA can't even cooperate with the FBI.

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    I was told the CIA were on vacations when I called last week, perhaps they did not recognize my name? They have also stopped returning my voicemails, letters, emails, and instagram dms.

    I understand el Estados Unidos is economically struggling, has your governments workers also been affected? I hope all there are safe.

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    If course there are more, as people pointed out, Venezuela and Bolivia but also Ecuador and Nicaragua. I'm honestly hoping this will backfire since they are stretching themselves thin.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      It won't backfire unfortunately, the CIA constantly agitates all over the world. I'll give you my personal experience in my country (South Africa). Due to social media manipulation, the white farm murders talking point went from fringe to mainstream, which lead to the white supremacist VF+ political party going from 0.1% support to 5% support, and lead to the main opposition party losing 20% of its support to the VF+. If such a comparitively large destabilisation can be done by some CIA social media manipulation and Trump making a few off hand remarks about white South African farmers, imagine how many of these ops are being run globally.

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      I may have missed it but what is the op in Ecuador?

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      Plenty of legit protests, the CIA and State Department write the stories about them and choose which ones to signal boost though.

      I think it was on a recent Citation Needed where they said "Propaganda isn't about lies, it's about emphasis"

  • ComradeAndy [he/him]
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    Isnt the ML party in Lebanon part of those organizing the protests?

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        There’s been like 30%+ unemployment in Lebanon for years now. There is inconsistent access to electricity and people can’t afford fuel to get to work. The “color revolution” isn’t what’s destabilizing the country; capitalism in Lebanon has been in severe crisis for some time.

        The “color revolution” is a genuine revolutionary situation that has been ongoing for several years, and now the “Marxist”-“Leninists” of Chapo take the brave and correct and truly revolutionary stance that the whole thing is a CIA op.