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DISINFO: Beware of American “cookies” and their “colour revolutions”

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Colour revolutions West Conspiracy theory Protest Euromaidan Arab Spring

DISINFO: Beware of American “cookies” and their “colour revolutions”

SUMMARY

Whenever a country cannot be controlled by the Americans and defies their continuous expansion to achieve overwhelming domination in the face of great opponents, they take out all possible weapons in their arsenal, including the "cookies" (Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said President Joe Biden offered her some cookies during their meeting). Do not underestimate its influence. It opens hearts and spreads joy. Spreading propaganda blinds the unaware crowds who, when they wake up, find nothing but devastation around them, as it happened in almost all the countries that experienced the so-called "colour revolutions", not to mention the bloodiest and most destructive Arab version, which ironically attaches to the spring.

RESPONSE

Recurring pro-Kremlin narrative claiming that protests, disorders and civil uprisings are never manifestations of genuine popular discontent and political desires, but are foreign engineered colour revolutions directed and funded by Western intelligence services or other Western actors in order to destabilise targeted foreign states and bring about regime change.

The belief or conviction, that you can mastermind from abroad and run for long periods of time foreign countries, neglects fundamental dynamics in democratic aspirations among ordinary people. As such, this conviction disrespects and disregards the local population.

This narrative has also been applied, among others, to the Arab Spring revolts, Euromaidan in Ukraine, protests in Catalonia, Venezuela, Georgia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Belarus, and all disinformation is presented without evidence.

Read similar cases in our database claiming that the US and EU coordinate colour revolutions to destabilise Russia; or that the West is orchestrating protests around the world, or that the Arab Spring was organised by the West; or that a London-based headquarters organise colour revolutions.

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