DISINFO: USA behind Arab Spring
SUMMARY
The United States, which intervenes in the internal affairs of countries under the name of democracy and overthrows legitimate ruling circles with popular uprisings, has become the cause of the death of millions of people. Since the end of 2008, that process has expanded in Muslim countries under the name of the 'Arab Spring'. The USA implemented this plan to take control in North Africa and the Middle East, and to change the governments there that did not listen to it.
RESPONSE
Disinformation about the Arab Spring presented with no evidence. This article’s message is consistent with pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about popular protests around the world allegedly incited and funded by the US and other Western states, including colour revolutions in post-Soviet states, the Arab Spring revolts, Euromaidan in Ukraine, protests in Catalonia and others. This narrative claims that protests, disorders and civil uprisings are never manifestations of popular discontent but are "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.
When the Arab Spring revolts broke out throughout Northern Africa and the Middle East beginning in 2010-2011, Russian media increasingly spread conspiracy theories portraying the uprisings as nefarious “colour revolutions” hatched in the United States. Senior Russia security and military officials claimed that the Arab Spring, which got much of its initial traction through social media such as Facebook and Twitter, was a new subversive methodology designed by Western intelligence services to destabilise societies and bring about regime change, first in the Arab world and subsequently in Russia itself.
However, there is no evidence that the Arab Spring uprisings were orchestrated and funded by the US or other Western governments and intelligence services. Serious scholars and analysts point to a combination of political, economic and social factors that triggered the spread of protests and upheavals in many Arab countries.
Read similar cases claiming that the Arab Spring was organised by the US and other western actors, the West has launched a second wave of colour revolutions , beginning with the Arab Spring in the Greater Middle East and that the Arab Spring was directed by global élites, the US and some EU member-states.