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Is it clearly true, and hardly a hot take, that the CIA has a history of overthrowing governments and generally fucking up countries and the US relationship with them.
Is it true to represent all the Colour Revolutions as being solely CIA-manufactured and deny any agency on the part of the people in those countries who risked (and many gave) their lives to try to create a world where there were free and fair elections? Less so.
The Colour Revolutions were mainly popular movements in what Russia likes to claim as its sphere of influence. It very much suits Putin to have a US-defector pushing a line that all their ills are the work of US spies, and that the Ukraine invasion was the result of that interference, rather than just failed imperialist hubris. If Biden was Putin, Snowden would be having a Nakatomi Plaza moment round about now.
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I don't believe the US rioters know enough history to consider the colour revolutions. Maybe some of them can recall a violent regime change in Iraq. They're more likely to have been inspired by their own revolutionary war in 1776. Wronged Americans have a duty to grab their guns and take power. But I bet they never learned anything about the colour revolutions or the CIA at school. Maybe Snowden is talking about senior republican nutjobs who planned the Capitol riot? People like Steve Bannon, Mike Flynn and Corey Lewandowski?
Edit: or maybe he spends his days worrying about falling out of a window?
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Interesting as in its interesting that a Russian spouts Russian takes?