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Nepal descends into chaos as protests turn deadly, citizens take control of country (tass.com)
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The current government was led by the Communist Party of Nepal. Protests claim to be about Nepal trying to limit access to Western social media. Sounds like a Western operation to me.

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[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Another perspective from Nikolai Starikov, a political analyst quoted on RT, on the ongoing events in Nepal:

Here’s all you really need to know about the “Maidan” in Nepal: start by looking at the map. Then read the so-called reasons for the unrest – a ban on social media. The law requiring platforms to register was passed two years ago!

Now, remember where Nepal sits – between India and China. Just a week ago, New Delhi and Beijing patched things up and moved closer together. And suddenly, riots break out in Nepal. A full-blown Ukrainian-style uprising. Mobs storm the parliament, police respond with water cannons and rubber bullets. And yet somehow we’re already hearing about a high death toll.

The rioters’ slogans? “Against corruption.” Out front you see schoolkids and college students – the familiar “they’re just kids” narrative. I recognize the handiwork of a master. Classic.

https://www.rt.com/news/624371-nepal-generation-z-revolution/

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

On the other hand, Arnaud Bertrand makes the following counter-arguments to the color revolution theory:

https://xcancel.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1965663406729633903

Basically the idea is that there is little to nothing to gain from orchestrating a color revolution in Nepal because Nepal is too geopolitically irrelevant, borderline ungovernable, and entirely at the mercy of India anyway.

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nothing to gain from deposing a government that signed a belt and road deal a few months ago? Nothing to gain by destabilizing a nation sandwiched between the 2 most populous nations on earth just as their relations are getting better? That's bad analysis.

Even if there is "nothing to gain" the color revolution machine got its funding cut a few months ago. All the little terrorist cells that have been getting that funding are going to lose their jobs. All those little orgs are planning to go out with a bang so they can put it on their resume so they can get an official job at the CIA.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yeah...i'm not entirely convinced by this line of argumentation either.

I mean he brings up some interesting points in that post but i'm not sure it's enough to support his conclusion.

Normally his analysis is very good but maybe there is a bit of personal emotional bias at play in this particular case...

[–] Comprehensive49@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Of course, these two things can both be true, but the US-backed color revolutionaries are louder due to their funding. Nepal's geography sort of dooms it to being a shithole unless China pours a ton of money into it, which they haven't gotten around to yet.

Thus, this is just like the Hong Kong protests, where some of the protesters were legitimately pissed over high living costs, which was not really a problem caused by the Chinese, but rather the native Hong Kong government. And then the U.S.-backed color revolutionaries stirred it up into way bigger shit by just conducting tons of domestic terrorism.

Once the Nepal-China railway is finished tunneling through the Himalayas, Nepali lives will get better. Let's just hope that this color revolution doesn't ruin that opportunity forever.

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Oh there are reasons for young Nepalese to protest but how do you go from no protests to burning down people's homes with them inside in days?

[–] OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Don't forget that most people don't update themselves on Nepal. Most analysis so far has been a run-down of the news headlines and quite a bit of caution. As people investigate in the coming days, we'll be getting more useful analysis.

[–] TacticalSanta@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't buy that. There is little to gain, not nothing. There have always been tendrils in these countries that have ties to china/india waiting to assert influence. Personally I wouldn't call it a color revolution but just opportunism, but that might just be semantics in this case.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

This very much looks to be a color revolution in progress. It looks like the protests were kicked off by Hami Nepal:

Hami Nepal, a nonprofit organisation that began as a youth movement in 2015, organised Monday’s protest. According to the Kathmandu District Administration Office, the nonprofit had secured approval for it.

The bottom logo on Hami Nepal's website is the Students for a Free Tibet organization, listed as NED-funded in a 2019 NED disclosure archived here.

Oh and guess who visited Nepal a couple of years ago

[–] Comprehensive49@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 week ago

This ghoul's face pops up everywhere handing out goodies to color revolution actors.

[–] OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Of course! And there's also the portrayal of the protestors by the media as "Gen Z", the "disenfrachised poor youth" etc. If this sort of thing happened, oh I don't know, in France let's say, the protesters would have been called hooligans, anarchists and criminals. It's very clearly an operation under way. But unfortunately, unlike the Maidan coup, the propaganda will prevail, since most of the world is uninformed and uncaring about Nepal.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 week ago

Indeed, and the double standard is really jarring given that France is descending into country wide riots as we speak.

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Apparently there is some NED involved ngos pushing the protests. Specifically some video campaigns from a "free tibet" group.

https://xcancel.com/BrianJBerletic/status/1965536046781006297

[–] RedPandaRedGuard@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Anyone got more of an understanding of the Nepali communist party?

As I understood it they promote socialism with Nepalese characteristics, similar to how China is adapting socialism for itself. And that they came out of a merger of a Maoist and a Marxist-Leninist party.

Saw others call them revisionist. Is there any grounds to that?

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Slava Nepal imminent