If we look at the global map over the past few years, we can see a series of uprisings sparked by political disputes in the geopolitical region of Eurasia, stretching from eastern Europe to the far east. These mass movements in places such as Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tibet, Burma, Mongolia and finally Moldova and Iran of this year were all characterised by botanic colours – rose, orange, pink, saffron, crimson, yellow, green and so on.
But who is behind all of this? Who is funding, organising and co-ordinating all of these revolutions? Are they really the grassroots phenomena that the western media would have us believe? Are these revolutions a genuine expression of people’s desire for democracy, or are there other forces at play?
No one can doubt the legitimate aspirations for democracy and human rights among the people of these countries. However, the reality is not so simple. The organisational and ideological infrastructure for these revolutions has been consistently provided by multifarious ‘think-tanks’ and ‘foundations’ emanating from the United States and Europe. The most active of these has been the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a pseudo-philanthropic group which works in tandem with the CIA to exploit popular discontent in eastern Europe and Asian countries in order to further US interests.
The reason for this is quite simple. The countries bordering the Caspian Sea sit on a potential fortune of untapped oil reserves. That is why the NED sent operatives into the former Yugoslavia just prior to the fall of the Soviet Union to foment nationalist and ethnic consciousness in the name of ‘democracy’. Journalists, human rights groups, trade unions, fascist groups, extreme nationalists and just about anyone who opposed the Soviet system were funded by the NED and the similarly minded Soros Foundation.
When the USSR fell in 1990, the independent streak of Titoist Yugoslavia became a problem for the US and Nato. Ethnic conflict and economic collapse would be key to Nato’s imperialist intervention. Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forced the Yugoslavia to make sweeping economic structural reforms. By 1991, as a result of these policies, Yugoslavia’s GDP had plummeted by 15 per cent, its industrial production by 21 per cent, and inflation had risen by 140 per cent.
Things got even worse the following year, when the US imposed an economic embargo on the country. The result was economic collapse. Unemployment would reach 70 per cent with Catholic Croats, Muslim Bosnians and Orthodox Serbs roaming the streets in fascist militias, all committing atrocities – and distracted from the west’s machinations.
Indeed, the US/Nato intervention in Kosovo had nothing to do with human rights or democracy. It was about the control of the Caspian Sea resources and the projection of Anglo-American hegemony over a vast region of vital economic and geo-strategic interest.
These colour revolutions are nothing but a sham, a sinister and cynical manipulation programme funded by American oligarchies. President Obama’s national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski (credited by some with created Al-Qaeda) put it bluntly in his book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives, where he writes: “For America the chief prize is Eurasia.” The main inspiration for Brzezinski’s thinking comes from the 19th-century British geopolitical strategist Halford Mackinder, who also inspired the Nazis.
The colour revolutions are among the most spectacular mass deception operations in history. They are designed to install corrupt US puppets, such as Yushchenko in Ukraine and Saakashvili in Georgia. But they have failed in Moldova, Iran and Uzbekistan. It seems another ruse may yet be necessary in order to ‘liberate’ the oppressed people of Eurasia.
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