• rosholger@quokk.au
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    8 months ago

    The whole idea that foreign governments enable protests is largely propaganda. States largely dont understand that people can organize without leaders, so they believe that there must be a force behind the people pulling the strings

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      8 months ago

      Iran from few decades ago disagrees with you. And countless other countries experiencing attempts of coups. But if you really think that west doesn’t have anything to do with Iran protests these days, well, you took the blue pill :)

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        8 months ago

        IMO a coup attempt is a very different thing from an revolt. Coups are top down, while revolts are bottom up. Which means that a coup is very easy for a hierarcical structure to support, while the overlapping unstructired movement of a revolt is much harder to stear from the outside. There is obviously attempts to do that anyway, and it might be successful too, but its not the same thing