My Take | Subversive US influence over unrest in Georgia
- As in Hong Kong in 2019, the US-funded National Endowment for Democracy has fingerprints all over protests in Tbilisi
I got a kick out of reading this headline and news summary the other day from The New York Times.
“Campus Protests Give Russia, China and Iran Fuel to Exploit US Divide: America’s adversaries have mounted online campaigns to amplify the social and political conflicts over Gaza flaring at universities, researchers say.”
Hmm, I think the US mainstream news media including the self-styled “greatest newspaper in the world” have been doing so much dividing that America hardly needs more help from its adversaries.
While I am sure many countries, whether foes or friends, have been carrying highly unflattering stories about the student protests against United States complicity in the Palestinian genocide, Russia, China and Iran are for sure doing their share.
But the US and its media are hardly in any position to complain, when they have been doing exactly the same thing to other countries and governments for decades by exploiting their internal divisions to justify subversion, interference and regime change. It’s the classic US foreign policy/CIA playbook.
