Last month, at the UN, Joe Biden put Belarus number one on the list of states in desperate need of regime change.
“We are committed to support the long-suppressed democratic aspirations of the people of Belarus and we stand together to impose costs on the regime for its blatant disregard of international commitments,” the Biden administration wrote, as they announced new sanctions.
The Biden administration has already essentially crowned opposition politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya as the new leader of Belarus.
The problem is that she lacks public support. A NATO-funded survey found that only 4% of 🇧🇾 want her to be president.
In this sense, Tsikhanouskaya appears to be a Belarusian Juan Guaidó; lacking a domestic support base but backed by Washington.
Tsikhanouskaya describes Guaidó as "inspiring." Meanwhile, Guaidó fans in Miami fly the Belarusian opposition's flag in solidarity at their demos.
Also worrying is that she sees "parralels" between what she wants to do and the Maidan Revolution in Ukraine, an event which brought the far-right to power there and tripped off a major war scare.
Also on Ukraine, Roman Protasevich, the journalist Belarus downed an plane to arrest, was a member of the Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, a group who did the heavy lifting during Maidan.
Completely unreported was that he was arrested right after meeting with Tsikhanouskaya in Greece.
CIA cutout organization, the NED, is currently overseeing 40 separate projects in Belarus.
These mostly revolve around training pro-US activists, funding anti-government media and bankrolling election monitoring organizations.
[Thread] FOIA’d documents show that the Pentagon worked closely with Hollywood, rewriting dozens of films and TV shows about the Afghan War to give them a more pro-war message, thus helping prolong the conflict.
E.G., in 'Lone Survivor' (2013), the Pentagon changed the central scene to delete parts where US soldiers argue that they should commit war crimes by killing Afghan kids & hiding their bodies.
This was a real event that actually happened. But it did not fit the wanted narrative.
The Pentagon often insists that they only work with film and TV companies to ensure the military is portrayed more accurately.
But internal documents prove that this is not true, and that they realize they are in the "reputation" management business.
"One of the most depraved front pages I’ve ever seen" - @Louis_Allday
The Daily Mail's own reporting makes clear that the U.S. killed three kids in the attack.
So they're essentially posing with the child survivors who lost their families.
And the military is being framed as a caring, compassionate force.
Unreal levels of propaganda.
On Afghanistan, I just published an investigation with @MintPressNews into the extraordinary costs of the project, including details of the enormous corruption among Afghan and US officials.
The US has directly controlled Afghanistan for 20 years. In that time, many women have lost rights and the country has been turned into the world's first true narco-state, as I wrote about for @MintPressNews in June-->
[Thread] My new investigation for @MintPressNews into Creative Associates International— the private regime change group you've probably never heard of.
"Creative Associates International (CAI): It’s Not Exactly the CIA, But Close Enough"
Over the past 30 years, CAI have worked with Contra death squads in Nicaragua, designed fake Cuban social media apps for the US gov, been involved in a coup in Haiti and redesigned the Iraqi and Afghan school systems.
It was also reported that CAI's office in Peshawar, Pakistan 🇵🇰 was being used as a front for infamous mercenary group Blackwater to stage military ops on the Afghan/Pakistan border.