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The Twitter Space Secrets of Color Revolutions – What really happened in Bangladesh hosted by Kanthan2030. Exploring the intricate dynamics of Color Revolutions in Bangladesh unveils a tapestry of geopolitical influences, media strategies, and societal repercussions. The discussion delves into the nuances of external involvement, ideological motivations, and long-term implications on governance and regional stability. By analyzing historical contexts and contemporary challenges, the space sheds light on the complex interplay between state actors, civil society movements, and international interests. Understanding the multifaceted nature of Color Revolutions provides valuable insights for policymakers, analysts, and individuals navigating the realms of global politics and democratization efforts.
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Questions
Q: What defines a Color Revolution and how does it differ from other political movements?
A: Color Revolutions are characterized by nonviolent protests seeking regime change, often with external influences, distinguishing them from traditional uprisings.
Q: How do Color Revolutions impact the internal dynamics of a country?
A: Color Revolutions can disrupt governance structures, trigger political instability, and challenge state sovereignty.
Q: What role do external actors play in instigating or supporting Color Revolutions?
A: External actors may provide funding, training, and strategic guidance to opposition movements, influencing the course of Color Revolutions.
Q: Why is media literacy crucial in analyzing narratives during Color Revolutions?
A: Media manipulation can distort information, shape public perceptions, and impact the outcomes of Color Revolutions.
Q: What are the implications of Color Revolutions for regional geopolitics?
A: Color Revolutions can lead to power shifts, alliances realignments, and tensions between countries, reshaping regional dynamics.
Q: How do Color Revolutions influence international relations and diplomatic strategies?
A: The aftermath of Color Revolutions may strain diplomatic relations, trigger interventions, and alter global perceptions of involved actors.
Q: What lessons can policymakers learn from past Color Revolutions when addressing similar movements?
A: Studying historical cases of Color Revolutions can guide policymakers in crafting more effective responses to democratic movements and political protests.
Q: What factors contribute to the success or failure of Color Revolutions?
A: The balance of power, public support, regime resilience, and external interference are key factors determining the outcomes of Color Revolutions.
Q: How do Color Revolutions impact civil society and grassroots activism in the long term?
A: Color Revolutions can inspire or suppress civil society activism, shaping citizen engagement, advocacy, and political participation.
Q: In what ways can countries protect their sovereignty and stability amidst potential Color Revolution threats?
A: Developing resilient governance structures, fostering inclusive dialogues, and monitoring external influences are essential in safeguarding national interests during Color Revolutions.
Highlights
Time: 00:08:12
External Influences in Color Revolutions Exploring the role of foreign entities in shaping and supporting Color Revolutions.
Time: 00:15:45
Media Narratives and Color Revolutions Analyzing the impact of media framing and propaganda during Color Revolutions.
Time: 00:23:30
Geopolitical Ramifications of Color Revolutions Examining how Color Revolutions influence regional power dynamics and international relations.
Time: 00:32:18
Lessons Learned from Historical Color Revolutions Drawing insights from past cases of Color Revolutions to inform present-day governance and policy-making.
Time: 00:40:02
Safeguarding National Sovereignty Amid Color Revolution Threats Discussing strategies for countries to protect their autonomy and stability in the face of potential Color Revolution activities.
Key Takeaways
- Color Revolutions involve complex socio-political movements leveraging nonviolent actions for regime change.
- The role of external actors in Color Revolutions can influence the outcome significantly.
- There is a fine line between organic grassroots movements and externally engineered Color Revolutions.
- Understanding the ideological motivations and interests behind Color Revolutions is crucial for a deeper analysis.
- Media manipulation and information warfare play a significant role in shaping narratives during Color Revolutions.
- Color Revolutions can have far-reaching impacts on a country's stability, governance, and regional dynamics.
- The aftermath of Color Revolutions may lead to geopolitical shifts and challenges for both the target country and external actors.
- Color Revolutions highlight the power dynamics between state actors, civil society, and international players.
- Lessons from past Color Revolutions underscore the need for nuanced approaches to democracy promotion and governance.
- Analyzing the implications of Color Revolutions helps in understanding contemporary geopolitical strategies and conflicts.
Behind the Mic
Introduction to the Special Spaces
Folks, we will start in like 1 minute. We'll wait for people to join in. Okay, why don't we get started and then slowly people will join in. So welcome to this special spaces. And this is about the regime change operation in Bangladesh, which is really shocking and is going to have huge repercussions in terms of geopolitics in Asia and especially in South Asia. And more importantly, it was kind of surprising how a lot of people did not recognize this to be a color revolution and a regime change operation by the US. Although it follows a very standard playbook and even people like George Galloway, he could not see that this is a color revolution sponsored by the US. So we will talk, we'll talk about what color revolutions are, the history, how it started and how it is carried out. And then at the end, if we have time, we'll go into the repercussions, what it means to India, China, Russia and all that. Okay?
Historical Context of Color Revolutions
So in fact, if you want to know the first color revolution that was carried out by the CIA, it was in 1953, it was in Iran. And what happened was there was a new prime minister in Iran. And at that time, the oil fields in Iran were all controlled by Britain and they kept like 95% of the profits and they gave Iran only like 5%. And a similar sort of structure was in Saudi Arabia, where the US controlled all the oil fields and they kept most of the profits. Then in 1950, the Saudis, they negotiated with the US. So we don't know what happened, but the US will agree to split the profits 50. So when that happened, the Iranians went to the British and they said, hey, man, look what's happening in Saudi Arabia. The Americans are sharing the profit 50. So let's do the same here. And the British said, no freaking way. So then the iranian prime minister, his name was Mossadegh, he was kind of controversial, but he was also very popular with the people and he was democratically elected, very popular guy.
Nationalization and US Response
So he told the British to get the hell out of Iran. So he said, okay, so you don't want to give me 50? Well, I'm going to take over all the oil fields, okay, so it's going to be 100 for me and zero for you. So he nationalized the oil fields and he kicked the Brits out of Iran. And at that time, the british empire was pretty much collapsing. The Mi five or the Mi six, they didn't have any power. So they called up the CIA, they said, hey, buddy, can you help us here? We're going to lose billions and billions of dollars of free money from Iran. So the CIA said, well, we can help you, but then if we succeed, then the oil fields have to be shared with the american corporations as well. So the Brits said, okay, fine, you know. So then the CIA tried to do a coup on the 15 August. So, like, pretty much almost precisely to the day, 71 years ago, the CIA tried to do a coup in Iran, and it failed because Mossadegh was still popular and there were a lot of people loyal to him.
The Failures and Subversion
So the coup failed. And then the CIA in Washington, DC, sent a cable to the CIA back in Iran. They said, okay, it failed. Shut down the operation, shut it down, because we don't want the information to leak out that were behind this attempted coup. But there was a guy who worked for the CIA who was in Iran at that time. He was the grandson of the former us president Teddy Roosevelt, and his name was Kermit Roosevelt. And Kermit was a very stubborn guy. He said, man, I don't want to give up soon, so let me try one more time. And he got these, like, suitcases and suitcases of $100 bills. And he went and paid the highest military officials. He got the police officials, he paid them off. And then he said, okay, so let's. We'll organize a mob. So we don't know how many millions of dollars he spent, but he was able to organize this huge mob in Tehran.
The Coup Execution
And this rented mob basically, staged the coup just exactly how it happened in, say, Ukraine in 2014, how it happened in Sri Lanka in 2022, and now how it happened in Bangladesh in 2024. So it was a, the coordination of the mob and then the military and the police refusing to stop the mobile. And then he also got a support of the clergy. He also paid off the clergy, the Shiite, the muslim leaders. So then the US got the shah back because the shah had actually run out of the country. So he was brought back and the US made him the emperor for life. And he stayed as the shah until 1979. So this had nothing to do, obviously, with democracy or freedom. It was all about oil, right? But to the world, the narrative would. Would always be, oh, the iranian people rose up because they were not happy, and then they got rid of Master Day, right? So, like, that's how it works.
Lessons from Historical Regime Changes
So this will give you a good idea as to how the same narrative works everywhere. Now, interestingly, even though this color revolution was successful, I mean, at that time, there was no term as the color revolution. But even though this strategy worked. The CIA did not use the same for like another 30 years. But we all know what the CIA did for the next 30 years. During the Cold War, they did a lot of regime changes all over the world. In Central America, in South America, in Africa, in Asia, and even like in Europe sometimes the US did regime change. So, for example, like in Greece, when the leftist government came into power, the US did a regime change. And same. I mean, like in Italy, the CIA used to carry suitcases and suitcases of dollars and they would bribe all the people. They would go to the newspapers and they would plant fake news, like totally tabloid news, you know, so, like, if there are like, say, two candidates, one is pro us and one is were not so pro us.
JP's Influence on Political Narratives
So then they would plant stories to demonize the non pro us guy. So they would say, oh, he had an affair, he has a mistress. That was a big deal in those days. Now nobody cares. But they would do stuff like that. But the biggest regime changes and the most brutal regime changes all happened in the developing countries. So in that it was very crude. So, for example, the CIA and the Pentagon, they would just bribe the military leader and then the military guy would take over the country and it would be a brutal military dictatorship. So this was all justified in the name of fighting communism. And in some countries, like Guatemala in 1954, the CIA and the US military, they basically flew into Guatemala and they did a regime change by brute force. So that was one option. And then if you look at the asian countries, like, say, Indonesia, the US found a brutal guy and his name was Suharto.
Brutality and Economic Control
And so they gave him weapons and all kinds of, you know, like maybe millions of guns, whatever he needed to kill the opposition. And he would kill all the labor unions, he would kill the farmers, he would kill the catholic nuns. So whoever would stand in the way of the exploitation of the indonesian land and the poor people, and then they would fly the dictator to the US or to Paris or to, you know, London, and they would, you know, sit around a huge table and there would be the CEO of Pepsi, CEO of General Motors, CEO of, I mean, the tire company. What is it? The famous. The tire company. So you know all the stuff, right low, like steel, aluminum, rubber, copper, tin, coal, oil, gas. And there'd be all these CEO's.
Economic Exploitation and Puppet Regimes
And then the dictator, a puppet leader, would just hand out, you know, he would say, okay, mister, the rubber company. So you can have 1 million acres of the rubber trees and General Motors, you can have the iron ore, you can have the aluminum, blah, blah. And then the dictator would get a commission and he would be able to save billions of dollars in swiss banks or the New York banks, whatever. So, like, that's how all these dictators in the Philippines, Indonesia, etcetera, they stayed for a long time. They would stay as the dictators for 2030 years and their families would be going to Harvard University and I. Blah, blah. And those people would be groomed for the next generation. So, for example, in the Philippines, there is a guy, the current president is Marcos, and his father was a brutal dictator of the Philippines for a long time.
The Marcos Legacy and Political Puppetry
And then the US, at the end, the US seized billions of dollars of his money. So, you know, and then you see why the son is being such a puppet of the US and he is violating the Philippines, the constitution, and he's allowing lots and lots of new us military bases. Why would he do that? Well, one could guess. He wants some of the money of his dad, his family money in the US banks. Okay, so it's not really his family money, but it belongs to the Filipinos. But you get the idea. So this was. So this was the way that the. The CIA did regime change.
Regime Change Tactics in Panama
And then in some cases, like in Panama, there was a famous, you know, locally very famous and popular leader. His name was Torrillos. So, Torrillos, he wanted to help the Panamanians. He wanted to raise their minimum wage. He wanted reforms of the land so that the farmers could have their own land. He wanted to stop the exploitation of his own people by western corporations. So what did the CIA do? They blew up his plane. You know, he was flying, and boom, the plane exploded in midair. And there was the regime change. So the same thing happened in the Ecuador as well.
Insights from John Perkins
So there's a guy named John Perkins, and he's written a book called Confessions of an economic hitman. So you can look that up on YouTube or buy his book. Fantastic book. So he talks a lot about. And as it was his job. Okay, so his job was to do regime change or to control the leaders of the developing nations. It's like a fiction. It's really mind blowing. And then the US also had the school, or this, the training center.
School of the Americas and Training Dictators
It was called the School of Americas and it was in Georgia. And that school's purpose was to train brutal dictators in Latin America. So they would recruit the most psychopathic guys from each country in Latin America. They would bring them to the School of Americas and they would train them for one or two years. And it would involve, like, all kinds of things, like how, you know, psychology, propaganda, but torture, like physical torture, how to do torture, how to manage thugs who would go and I how kill people. What are they called? They were called, I mean, the death squads.
The Legacy of Brutality
So how to organize death squads, how to do drug trafficking, all kinds of stuff. Just unbelievable. And this school of Americas went on until the end of the cold war and then they shut it down and then they reopened it a few years ago with a very polite, nice name. So we don't know what is going on there, but you can bet there are like people from Venezuela, Bolivia who are being trained in those schools. Okay, sorry for the long history, but that's what happened during the Cold War and this was the regime change mode.
CIA's Evolving Methods
But then what happened was in the 1970s, the US Senate got really mad at the CIA because the CIA became like a rogue agent. They were like assassinating people. They were probably behind the JFK's assassination. They were doing a drug trafficking. They were running the mind control programs within the US. So it was called the MkUltra. So the CIA was totally out of control. And then they also controlled all the magazines and the newspapers. So this was the operation Mockingbird. So finally the US Senate got very sick of and also very scared because all the ex presidents like Truman and all those people, they warned openly that the CIA had become the Gestapo of the US.
Reforms Following Backlash
So the Senate started to crack down on the CIA. And the US was also getting a lot of complaints from countries around the world. They were like, hey man, what the hell? You know, you guys just keep assassinating people. This is not good. So then also the loss in Vietnam war. So that was in 1975. So from 1975 to 1980 were very bad years for the deep state, the military industrial complex, the CIA, they were all feeling very down and depressed. So then Reagan came to power and these guys all got like a reboot. So then they came up with a new idea, like, okay, if we are going to do regime change in the future, we need to be more sophisticated.
Strategies for Future Operations
We need to have a narrative that it's not just the us empire, you know, murdering leaders, overthrowing, stealing the natural resources, exploiting the workers. It's all this is giving us a very bad name. So we need a new strategy on how to do the same thing, but in a more acceptable manner. So that's when they came up with the idea of these revolutions, fake revolutions. And basically, I mean, the underlying processes were the same, right?
Elite Capture and Regime Change
It's about the elite capture, how to bribe the military, how to bribe the police, how to bribe the politicians. How to bribe the media. So those were the four, the military, police, politicians, and the media. Once you get the buy-in from all those four, then it's very easy to do a regime change. But to make it look like it's not, well, it's not America doing it, but it's the people themselves who are doing it. So they went back to the Iranian strategy, the playbook that they used in 1953. They're like, wow, that's great. You know, that's all we need is to do the elite capture as usual, and then we need a mob. And then the media can just spin it into, like, people rising up against dictators. Who doesn't love that story, right? We've heard that in a French revolution, Russian revolution, like, whatever the thing you can think of, it is just, like, really appealing. Everybody loves that story, right?
The Aftermath of Revolutions
We hear about the Arab Spring. Wow. The people of the Middle East rose up against the tyrants, and then they got democracy, right? But nobody follows through what happened. So, like, if you go to those countries where they had the Arab Spring and you ask them, hey, how did your life change after the Arab Spring? They're like, what? Nothing happened. It's all the same sheet, right? And then you look at Ukraine. So they had the Maidan revolution. Wow, how amazing. And then what happened? Nothing. It's the same corruption, same oligarchs, and it's actually worse, right? And now they're dying. Like, a million Ukrainians have died in the war. Five, 6 million Ukrainians have been forced to flee the country. Men are being forced into draft, they're being kidnapped on the streets and being sent into the battleground after like one week or two weeks of training. It's like, amassed, a genocide going on.
Historical Insights and Future Implications
And the country is so destroyed and it has no future. So that's what happened with the color revolution in the Maidan in 2014. So anyways, so going back to the 1980s, so the US said, okay, we are going to shift a lot of this job from the CIA to the State Department. So then the State Department started to fund these organizations with really nice names, like, for example, the National Endowment of Democracy. I mean, the NAD. And then there is the NDI, the National Democratic Institution or something like that. Then there is, I mean, the IRI, it's mostly a favorite thing for the Republicans. So they have all these, you know, the organizations, and then, you know, soon they multiply, right? So now you have like 150 different such organizations, but they're all funded pretty much by the Congress and then also some by the military industrial complex. And then you have George Soros.
The Role of George Soros
So George Soros, he volunteered into this project. And this was great because now nobody can blame the US government. They would think he's just like a maverick, a billionaire who wants to spread freedom, but he doesn't want to spread freedom. He works with the CIA, the deep state, and the hedge fund would be able to take over the resources of the countries where he's able to stage the color revolutions. So, for example, if when Ukraine fell in 2014, then George Soros, the hedge fund, will get best deals for the oil fields, gas fields, whatever stuff they have, land, banks, media. So there's a lot to buy, and then Soros gets to reap all the benefits. So. But now we have the organizations that are funded by the Congress, and then we have George Soros and some other groups like that.
Targeting Non-friendly Nations
So now what they do is they would go to a country, and these countries, they only operate in those countries that are not friends of the US, okay, that are trying to be independent. Like. Like, you will not find the NeD supporting protests in France, right? No freaking way. So the French people like the yellow jackets, they can protest for three years and they will not get one penny from the US government. They will not. Their protests will not even be covered by the mainstream media. They will be completely ignored. And if it really shows up, they probably will make fun of them. You know, they'll say, oh, these white French people protesting. They must all be Nazis. They must hate immigrants. All these far right, you know, like, they would just make up stories to demonize them.
The Mechanism of Color Revolutions
And so the NED, NDI, IRI, they only work in the developing nations and pretty much only in the developing nations where the country is not 100% pro US. So these people, they basically create these sleeper cells. But they would all have really nice names. It would be like. I mean, it's all like, very woke. It'll be like women's cause, you know, like in Nigeria, you know, and there would be, like, women's cause, gay rights or some freedom, democracy, justice. And then they would have all these people trained in journalism, okay? And that's a huge one. So these people, and they. They learn how to write sensational articles, how to become popular on social media, and they would, like, immediately get the blue check marks.
Social Media Manipulation
So you can see that in Ukraine, right? So you have all these. The NAFO people and the pro Ukrainians with the blue check mark. Whatever they tweet, it'll get. I mean, it'll get amplified in the social media because the deep state has back channel access to Facebook, Instagram, etcetera. So if, say, for example, they want to overthrow the Venezuelan government, there would be all these sleeper cells in Venezuela. And whatever they tweet or they post on Facebook, it would get magnified like 10,000 times. So it would get, like, the most number of impressions, and then they would have these, like, the propaganda team, they would work together. So this is an arthem. And the same thing happened during the Arab Spring. And of course, we didn't know about that until, like, seven, eight years later.
Funding Mechanisms for NGOs
The New York Times had an article saying, yeah, yeah. The US social media played a major role in the Arab Spring. And then another thing they do is to. Is to groom these people, not only in that country, but they would bring them to the US or to Europe. So this morning, I tweeted about this so-called school for revolution in Norway. And they had people from Syria, Hong Kong. So this documentary was from 2014. And they say, like, oh, this room is filled with people from Syria, Hong Kong, North Korea, China, Uighurs, in Israel, Cuba, whatever you can think of, you know, like, basically wherever the US wants to start trouble and these people. And it's like an art, okay? How to organize, how to create chaos, how to protest, how to organize protests.
Organizing Tactics
So if you have, like, say, 10,000 people marching, then you need, like, some people who will take a lot of photos, some people will have the medical supplies, some people will provide cash, some people will provide food, and then, like, there will be the organizers, you know, how to look out for the police, where to escape, how to attack different areas, and what to attack, you know, for example, like, oh, yeah. Like, if we bring down. If a. The metro station, that will cause a lot of problems. If we bring down the street lamps, if we break into the parliament, it'll have the huge impact in the media. And then say, and then there'd be these violent groups, you know?
The Youth Factor in Revolutions
So if you look at these groups, like, 90% of them will be like patsies, you know, just the normal people, the young people, most of them, it'll be young, you know? So whenever you look at the color revolution, it'll be very young people, like, from 17 to 25, right? And those are easily brainwashed people. And also they're very cheap, right? So, like, if you go to Bangladesh and, you know, for example, the NED gives a lot of money to the college in Bangladesh, like the Dhaka, the university, one of the biggest ones. So the NED gives them, like, say, a million dollars per year, and that's a lot of money in Bangladesh, right? So that money would go to like very specific propaganda departments like the political science department in Dhaka is the one that gets the most funding from the US.
Educational Propaganda
And then, so then they're able to design the courses which would all be like the US based, right? So they'll be talking about freedom, democracy, checks and balances, accountability, transparency, justice and all these buzzwords. So by the time these kids are in like their second year of college they're like totally brainwashed with the US concepts and then the leaders will get like say $200 a month, right? And that is the median wage in Bangladesh. So for most of these kids they're making more money than their father does, right? So you give a Bangladeshi sophomore or a junior $200 a month, he's going to work his ass off, right? He's going to be very busy on social media, he's going to be writing articles, he is going to be proselytizing over the weekends, you know, and they probably would give them the quotas.
The Recruitment Process
They say, well you have to recruit 5000 people and you give somebody, you know, a young person $200 a month, within one or two years he's going to recruit 5000 loyal people, right? And those people, they don't get any money. They are just like, you know, brought into with fervor, the ideology, hatred, right? So the, so you have these vast number of the innocent, foolish people who don't know why they're doing what they're doing. They don't understand geopolitics, they don't know anything about the color revolution. So you ask a guy in Bangladesh, what happened in Ukraine, what happened in Belarus, what happened in Venezuela, what happened in Hong Kong, they wouldn't know, right? Who follows world news and especially in the developing nation.
Global Implications of Color Revolutions
So this can be replicated so easily across, I mean all over the world because the young people, they don't know. And then, so like that's why for example in Georgia the government now said, okay, so we have a lot of the NGOs and we don't know where they're getting the funding from. So they wanted to pass a transparency law that said that if the NGO gets over like say 20% of their funding from a foreign source then they should let the public know who's funding them, where the money is coming from. And well interestingly the NGOs, they started huge protests against this transparency, okay, so these are the same clowns that always talk about transparency and they would use the word transparency to fight against dictators.
The Definition and Funding of NGOs
And then these people don't want to be transparent about where they're getting the funding from. So this is like utter hypocrisy and utter corruption. And also, by the way, you know, so like when they say, I mean, the NGOs, it stands for non-governmental organization, but what it means is that it cannot be funded by the government where the NGO is based in. Okay, so like if the US created an NGO in, say, Thailand, right? And that country is full of Western NGOs, so if there is like an NGO in Thailand, that country, I mean, that NGO cannot receive any money from the Thai, the government, okay, so that's why it's called non-governmental organization.
The Orwellian Nature of NGO Funding
But so here is the Orwellian the catch, they can get funded by the western governments. So the western governments are somehow not considered government in the NGO. So this is the regime change strategy. And they work like really patiently for long periods of time. So they work for like two years, five years, ten years, 20 years. So they groom people. So for example, if you take a look at Hong Kong, they groomed the children of Hong Kong who were born after 1997. So those people had like, you know, so, like by the time it was say 2019 when there was a huge revolution or the protests, so then those people would be like say, 17, 18, 19, 20 years old, ready for that.
Media Manipulation and Cultural Programming
And then, so the US will change the textbooks, they will create a lot of the media. And then the propaganda comes at you like in all directions, right? So, like some kid could be watching Disney story of a cartoon and it will have some subtle messages once in a while about fighting dictators, freedom, blah, blah. You know, like all those woke, the liberal concepts will be squeezed in. So, like, if you really are the careful and if you spend the day like with very sharp eyes, then you can see how much the propaganda is infiltrated in every sphere around us. It'll be like in the Netflix movies, it'll be in songs, it'll be in the news, social media, textbooks, like all over, right?
The Pervasiveness of Propaganda
So this is how they like really but comprehensively work on the things. And, you know, like if you go to Google and if you search for something, the search results are totally rigged, right? That's, I mean, like they control what you see in like the first, what, ten pages. And 99% of the time, people don't go past the first page of the Google result. You know, think about yourself. Have you gone beyond the first page of Google search? Well, I don't, you know, I mean, most of the time people find what they want in the first page. So whatever that is, like, inconvenient will be pushed to, like, page number 40, 50 or just even in a band.
Censorship and Information Control
So Google search can just remove certain websites from their search engines. So. All right, so now back to. Okay, so now we have some time. I'll spend five minutes on the Bangladesh and then we'll go to questions. So. But knowing all this, you can see how it all happened in Bangladesh, right? So, like, if you don't know, right? So the first thing you should do is to look at how the media has been covering the opposition over, like, say, the last year. Then you go look at the Time magazine, Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post, foreign policy, foreign affairs, CNN, yada.
Media Support for Opposition
And then you can see they were all supporting the opposition and they were all talking against Hasina, the prime minister. So that's your first hint. okay. So now there is like an organized, you know, because there's no reason for the New York Times to care about what is happening in Bangladesh, right? So why would they write articles and, you know, why would the Time magazine put the prime minister of Bangladesh on the COVID page, right?
Ignorance About Bangladesh
Like, 99.5% of Americans, they cannot even point to Bangladesh on a map. Like, they wouldn't know that Bangladesh has 170 million people, right? So why would they do that? So that's like your first, the research step is to say, what does the us media say about this leader? And then I believe there is a color revolution. You will see a consistent pattern, 100%. And they all speak from the same kimber, the same narrative, the same talking points, the same attitude. Okay? And then you look at what kind of the us leaders have visited that country. Then you say, oh, Victoria Nuland went to Bangladesh last year in 2023. How interesting. We all know that wherever Victoria Nuland goes, there is going to be a regime change. Like, that's a big red signal.
Observations on US Diplomacy
And then you read. And then you see like how the ambassador, the us ambassador to Bangladesh, he spent all his time meeting with the opposition, meeting with the election commissioner, and he constantly talks about the importance of Bangladesh having a free and fair election. What kind of stupidity is that? Right? I mean, do some other ambassadors, they do it in the US. So just imagine a bangladeshi ambassador to the US. He is in Washington, DC or in New York, and he is constantly talking about fair and free election. Can you imagine the US would not allow a single foreign ambassador to say stupid things like that. Okay? That person would be immediately kicked out of the US. But the US does it everywhere. The us ambassadors are like, oftentimes a CIA plans CIA front, and all they do is, like, regime change, work with the opposition.
Historical Context of US Interventions
So in China in 1989, when the Tiananmen protest happened, so it started off as just like a regular gathering to mourn the. The loss of a very popular leader in Beijing. And then immediately the us government back in Washington DC, they understood, wow, tens of thousands of young people are gathering in Beijing. This would be the perfect opportunity to infiltrate and transform that peaceful organization into a protest. So that's exactly what the US did. They sent in a former CIA guy as the new ambassador to China just in the beginning of the Tiananmen gathering. And then he worked with the Soros leaders and the other CIA members to create the so called the tin and man square massacre narrative. So these people are very powerful, very sophisticated psychologically. They're very strong. They know how to mold young people.
Manipulation of Global Elites
And then for all the leaders, their kids would all be, like, studying in London, studying and living in the US. It's like one of the simplest ways for the US to buy the elites of a developing nation, you know? So, like, a US ambassador would say, okay, so here are the list of 50 politicians, 50 businessmen, 20 military guys, but ten police chiefs and all their children should be able to go study, live in the US or in the UK or in Australia. So, boom. And then, like, immediately, you not only get the gratitude, but it's also against, you know, like, it can be used as a stick. So if the army chief refuses to obey, then the US can do something to his son and daughter in the US, right? They can say, oops, we, you know, we had to arrest your son because he did this.
Consequences of Non-compliance
He did that. The FBI can plant stuff on their laptops, you know, whatever. You know, it's so easy. I mean, if you really want to make somebody a criminal, it's so easy. You can do that. So it's like carrot and stick. So that's why all these people are so silent, right? And then you like, because you wonder, man, if there are so many bad things happening, how come like, all these people at the top, they're so silent? Because, you know, they all have sticks and carrots facing them. And, you know, in Venezuela, you know, like, there was a guy, Guido, and then there's a new guy. And then the US just randomly says, this person is the new president of Venezuela. Okay?
The Illusion of Democracy
The US can just appoint someone, and then that guy will move to Miami. He will have like, a mansion. He will live like an amazing life. He would get like $20,000 a month just for lifestyle expenses. And of course, you know, he's going to be very loyal. He's going to show up on CNN and he's going to cry about how Venezuela is so horrible, right? And the same thing happens to Syria, North Korea, Hong Kong, whatever, you know, so wherever they, you know, like Bangladesh. The chairman of the opposition party, he actually lived in London for a long time, and I think he's still there, you know, but he will come back to Bangladesh when it's really safe for him, when it is, when he's guaranteed to win.
Criticism of the Interim Leadership
And the interim guy, the interim leader, Yunus, he won the Nobel Prize for peace. Wow. So he must be like an amazing, nice guy for Bangladesh, right? Well, no, he's a stooge. You know, he ran this bank, supposedly to help the poor people, and he lent billions of dollars, and he charged these, like, poor people 10%, 20%, 30%. So some people did a documentary. Then they went to these villages, you know, like, where the villagers would get, like, say, $50 of loan, and then they cannot pay back that $50. And then they would have to sell their, you know, like sometimes their homes.
Debt Trap and Exploitation
Okay? So they would have to sell their, the hut home because they cannot pay back that $50 with the interest, which could be like, say $400 after some time, right? So, like, these are the people who don't even know how to read, write, you know? So, like, I mean, well, if this guy is so nice, he should be lending money with a 0% interest rate, but instead he charges like 20, 30%, and then he give, you know, he gets like, billions of dollars of funding from the us government and the World bank. And then he recycles that money back to the us politicians. Like, he gave millions and millions of dollars to the Clinton foundation, right?
The Circular Feedback Loop
So it's like a circular feedback loop, and we can see the same thing happen in Ukraine. So when the US says it gives Ukraine $50 billion, okay, some large percentage of that money is just going to the oligarchs in Ukraine and the oligarchs in America and the politicians in America. So we don't know all the stuff, how it happens, you know, like which bank in swiss bank or Panama or in Monaco, blah, blah. Some secret funding in the Caribbean. The Caribbean is very famous for all these black money. So that is how the circular loop works. Okay? And then. Oh, okay, so let me end with this thing. Okay?
Final Thoughts on Regime Change
So at the very last stage, what happens is that, you know, like, you have one group that is stirring up the student protesters and then the second group winks and nods at the army and the police at the right time to step down. Okay? That is the key. Because if the army and the police are 100% with the government, no amount of protests can do a regime change. So, like, every time you see somebody, you know, some leader fleeing the country, it just means that the army and the police have been bribed by western nations. So. And then what they say to the rest of the world is, oh, we wanted democracy. We couldn't hurt our own children. These young people who are fighting for freedom, democracy, justice.
The Realpolitik of Regime Change
So that's the reason we didn't stop. No bullshit, right? So that's how it happens. And then if the leader is lucky, they will get to escape the country alive. And if not, like, say, Gaddafi, then that person will face a brutal death. Right? So Gaddafi and what happened in Syria are, like, one step further, right? So, in Libya, it was like the color revolution, followed by NATO bombing and then funding of the al Qaeda. So, in Syria, the color revolution, for one year, it could not bring down the syrian president, Assad.
International Collaboration in Regime Change Efforts
So that's when, starting in 2012, the US worked with all the neighbors of Syria, like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Israel, Turkey. They all colluded and conspired to send, like, 150,000 jihadists from all over the world. And then all the weapons for the jihadists flew through. I mean, was land transportation through Turkey, and then some went through Jordan and so on. So, like, that is, like, the very last step when the color revolution doesn't work. Okay, so it's actually the last but one step. So if that doesn't work, okay, then they will make up shit like they did to Saddam Hussein. Right?
Deception and Justification for War
And then they will just lie blatantly. They say, oh, yes, chemical weapons, biological weapons, nuclear weapons. If we don't invade the country, it will be the end of the world. Right? So then the. Then the war comes. So did I miss anything? No. Okay. All right, so that's all I have to say. Let's open up for questions and feedback, and I hope you guys learned something interesting.
Engagement with the Audience
Okay, so let's see. Request real politic. Roman Buddhist. Okay, so, like, I mean, if you want to speak, if you want to ask a question, if you want to share your thoughts, opinions, just click on the microphone button on the bottom left, and then you should be able to request to speak. Okay, so let's go with the realpolitik first. Hey, Kanzan, thanks. Really interesting talk. I am actually from Bangladesh. I've been listening to your take on this issue. Had a couple of questions for you.
Clarifying the Context
So you're mentioning that this was a color revolution. Now, in terms of a color revolution, there's been a lot of young people who were killed by the regime in the beginning, before they demanded the resignation of the government, the protests were peaceful. It started off with demand for reform, which then escalated as a result of some missteps by the existing regime of the previous regime in Bangladesh. So, you know, my question to you would be, you know, since that happened in Bangladesh, people didn't get any support from anyone, you know, that included the US, UK, Canada and India, of course, backs the regime in Bangladesh. And China has a policy of non interference.
Diverse Perspectives on the Situation in Bangladesh
They've always remained neutral. And as the new interim government came into power, they were like, yeah, you know what? We are ready to work with the people of Bangladesh. No worries. So really, my question revolves around some proof from your end on this being a color revolution. One provided there's been a lot of speculation in the indian media, as famously, we call it Gobi media. Right. You would be familiar with that term where they initially obviously said it's ISI and China funded.
Governmental Narratives Amidst Change
Then later on, the prime minister came out and said it's american funded, with the previous prime minister's son from the United States saying it's ISI funded again, to indian media. So really my question to you is, you know, what do you make of all this? I know you've made some bold claims about this being a color regulation. You know, I'm usually a big fan of your takes. I think they're pretty good and they're on point regarding Venezuela, Cuba, you know, Ukraine.
Young People's Awareness
I think one of the claims you made is Bangladeshis don't agree with those states. We agree with that. You know, we completely agree. We stand with Palestine. We stand with the global resistance. We understand the politics of the global south. I think it's a pretty big take to say that young people in Bangladesh don't understand that they're fully aware of what's happening globally. So just from my end to you is, you know, just give us some examples and some proof and some information.
Standard Diplomatic Patterns
Apart from Victor and Nuland just landing there a couple of months ago or somebody else visiting, those state visits are fairly standard. And can you talk a little bit about India's role in this, where they have trying to exercise geopolitical power in the region? And they've done so famously in Nepal, in Sri Lanka, in Maldives, and, yeah, just want to get your take on this. Thank you.
Closing Remarks
Okay, so when did you do. When did you join this spaces, like, 1520 minutes ago. Yeah.
Discussion Introduction
Okay. So. But I would recommend you replay that because I spoke for an hour and I don't want to go through all of that. So please replay this spaces when you get a chance. And then if you have any questions, let's touch base on Twitter again. Okay, so let's go with, I mean, the rks. So go ahead, rks.
Question on Color Revolution
Yes, hi. Good evening, everyone. I'm sorry I joined the spaces a bit late, so I'm not actually aware of what all you spoke, Mister Kantan, but my question to you is, given the parameters that you have defined for color revolution, how do you see the 2020 us presidential election and the fourth and the upcoming one on those parameters? Because I was just, you know, barely a day or two ago, I saw a tweet by one of the toss up states, Pennsylvania secretary of state, that they may not be able to furnish the election results on the night of the, on the night of November 5. So were that the case in, say, any of the third world countries, you know, the state department folks would have been shouting from the rooftop that, oh, you are bringing in, you know, electoral malpractices and whatnot. So how do you see the 2020 election, us presidential election, and the upcoming one on these parameters? Thank you so much.
Clarifications on Parameters
Okay. I don't understand your last phrasing. Well, on these parameters means of how that affects Bangladesh. Not really. Not really. This is, I mean, is this specifically about Bangladesh or is it about color revolutions in general? Because. Yeah, because it's like a broad picture about the color revolutions, right? Yeah. Yeah. If I may, sir? Yeah, yeah, go ahead. Yeah. So, so one of the things that I have read somewhere, I can't exactly recall wherever. Regarding the color revolution, one of the key tenets of color revolution is fomenting distrust of the electoral process, so to speak.
Electoral Practices and Doubt
So ballot harvesting and announcing results, electoral results, for sake, holding it up for days and days on end so that you could, you could make your favorite candidate win. These are, these are one, some of the practices that folks use, and, I mean, Americans would be the first one to shout when it is done in, elsewhere in the world. So why, you know, like, that's called the rules based order, which means that the entire world has to follow some rules which the US does not have to follow. Yeah. That's how it works. You know, what can you do? You know, I mean, you look at all the stuff that the US does to other countries, but the other countries cannot do to the US. Right? Like, you know, like you have, you know, John McCain going in 2014 at Ukraine, and he gives a speech to the protesters.
US Foreign Activities
And Victoria Nuland, she hands out the cookies. And then, you know, she was recorded on a phone call that the Russians, they were tapped a phone and they recorded her. And she's basically planning out who will be the next prime minister and president of Ukraine, if the EU. She said, if I could recall. Yeah, yeah, right. Very good. Exactly. And then, you know, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, they go to Ukraine, you know, so many times, and then they say, this fight, well, your fight is our fight. And we are going to start a fight with Russia. We are going to start a war with Russia in 2017. So just imagine if China went to Mexico and did that help will break loose. So whatever you think of, I mean, like, everything that the US does is, like, one rule for me, another rule, you know, like when.
International Judicial Impacts
I mean, the ICC, the international criminal court found Putin, you know, like, probable for war crimes. Then, like, immediately everybody said, oh, Putin is a war criminal. And the US doesn't even have, like, it hasn't even ratified the ICC. And if. And if the ICC. And then when the ICC says we, I mean, and the ICJ and the ICC, they find something bad about Israel, which is doing, like, genocide. And then the US, like, basically, first you said, yeah, it doesn't matter, you know, who cares what the ICC said? So they flip the logic. And then they tried to bully, like, these senators from the US. They wrote, like, an open letter to the. To, like, something like, we know where your family lives. You know? I mean.
Discussion Closing Remarks
Yeah. So what can you do? You know, that's the US. It doesn't follow any rules and it lives in its own world. Okay, so let's go to the next one because we are running out of time. Let's go. Thank you, sir. Sure. Suvik. Kumar. Suvik. Okay. Well, if not Suvik, let's go to the Roman. Good evening, everybody. And hello, Mister Canthon. Good talk. Good talk. By the way, you can hear me, okay? Yes. Okay, so, look, a lot of what you said is true in a general way. But being a westerner myself, and having followed.
Allies and American Policies
Followed these things for over 40 years, you can say, yes, it's true that the us government kind of has its own rules and follows its own dictates and things like this. But it's not that simple because the us government itself works closely with allies as well. So it's also a combined effort. And it also works closely with Israel. Like, for example, if you notice, Israel is attacking five countries right now, okay? And you could say, yes, they're attacking Israel as well. And it's going back and forth and et cetera, et cetera. That's true too, right? However, Netanyahu just recently visited America and he's trying to push America to go to war with Iran.
American Public Opinion
So it's not just America, okay? It's. Sure America is responsible for a lot of strife, for sure. But we're talking about the government, we're not talking about the american people. A lot of the american people, for example, in Vietnam, eradic, korean era, they tried to protest it. A lot of the, general people, the populations and a lot of the Americans are against the war. They don't want to go to war. Now, when we're talking about color revolutions, you need to look back at who funds it, right? And you mentioned the NGO's and who funds those, okay?
Funding of Revolutions
So I know you've probably heard of Blackrock and vanguard, the Rockefellers, George Soros, and they're all jewish organizations. For example, George Soros and the NGO is responsible for a lot of the illegal immigration in communion with western governments into Europe, Australia, everywhere else. Okay? So it's more than just the us government, right, these days, okay, perhaps 30, 40 years ago or 50 years ago, you could say such a thing. But then if you even look at the Bolshevik revolution, which was sponsored by a lot of Jews in New York in the 1920s, if you research that, you'll find that New York sponsored a lot of the Bolshevik revolution.
Complexity of Blame
So what you're saying, like, in general, yes, it's like. I'm not saying you're not wrong. You are right in terms of the, I guess, classification. But it's much more complicated than that. And that's the problem. Right? And I've heard many people talk on this and everybody's looking for a silver bullet, to blame one entity. But it's not like that. It's actually far more complicated. And if you study the color revolutions, have a look who's behind them, have a look who sponsored them, who paid for it. Because you cannot have a revolution for free right now.
Final Thoughts on Influence
Yes, the US government pays them, but it's not just them. There have been families who sponsor these revolutions. Like, for example, the Rothschilds had a lot to do with setting up Israel in 1948 in Palestine, right? So these are some things I think I just wanted to point out, and, you know, I'll leave it there. And it's really good to meet you, and it was really nice to hear a well balanced discussion from you, Mister Canthon. Hopefully, I'll talk to you again one day. Thank you very much for letting me talk on your space. Thank you. Sure.
Mainstream Recognition
Yeah, that's a good point. You know, a lot of the times, we only focus on the hammer that comes and bans us on the head, but we don't see the arm that holds the hammer. Right. So, you know, so we. So we may get, you know, mad at the US Empire. Right? So, you know, like, we get mad at Victoria Nolan, but we have to figure out who is behind Victoria Nolan. And then you have to go step by step. And then, you know, like, for example, you know, we say George Soros, you know, but it's not George Soros.
Understanding the Power Structure
Right? George Soros has a boss, or he reports to some cabal, and that cabal, they tell Soros what to do, and we don't know who that cabal is, so we blame Soros. And the Roman is. Right. So when we blame the US government, we have to keep in mind that there are people above the government that. Sorry. Sorry to interrupt. I'm the roman Buddhist. I'm actually a buddhist monk from Australia. Oh, wow. And my parents. My parents are italian, so that's why I call myself the Roman Buddhist.
Identity and Engagement
It's a new ideology for Rome. Just kidding. I like that. I like that. Yeah. So, you know. Sorry. So. I don't know. You know, so, like, you can look at some buddhist philosophies, and then you can see that there's something above us all. Okay, very good point, Roman. All right, so who's next? We tried to add a Suvik, but he keeps dropping out. Okay, all right, so going once, twice, thrice.
Conclusion of Discussion
All right, so my throat is hurting after speaking for a long time. So thank you all. I hope you enjoyed it. Very good interaction, and we'll see you some other time soon.
