Have just been watching "Ukraine Under Fire" and I must say that it is a revelation.
The parallels to the Maydan protests in Ukraine in 2014 and our own "Farm Laws" protests are eerily similar. rumble.com/vwxxi8-ukraine…
The show talks about how there were three main pieces of any of these color revolutions 1. Money 2. Media 3. Tactics
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The CIA has often used NGOs as a means of funneling money to various revolutions and regime change operations across countries.
They did the same in Ukraine with various NGOs being funded.
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Three media channels came up within a day or two of each other and their content went viral. The whole range of media was used including traditional and social media.
Politicians, social media stars etc were all brought into play.
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They also started to demonize the leader of the country. Painting him as far right and an out and out evil person, made it easier to sell the story to the west.
Apparently, it was a decision taken during the Raegam administration that this was how to portray leaders ...
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So that simplistic Americans could be swayed. This also meant that any journalist or academic speaking out against them could be easily tarred with the same brush.
Hence the comparisons of the Ukrainian President with Hitler etc, posters with Hitler moustaches on his face
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...appeared.
Then they focused on how to keep the protests going. They got various entertainers etc together to entertain the crowds. There were TT tables set up. Food was cooked and distributed. Etc.
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But that wasn't enough. They needed martyrs. So the crowd was first infiltrated by radical elements who transformed what began as a nonviolent protest into a violent one. They identified someone key who had recited poems. That person was mysteriously killed.
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Another lady journalist who was out to make a name for herself as a politician was beaten up and her face became the face of the protests.
Meanwhile the radicals sparked action against the police and killed a few. The police retaliated and that furthered their cause.
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In the midst of this, US govt officials, including John McCain and Victoria Nuland (she who was recently in the news insisting that the Russians would be the ones using bio weapons), kept not only visiting Ukraine, but also going to the protest site and promising US help.
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The protestors then started occupying govt buildings. Snipers (which the Ukraine govt denies were theirs) further precipitated violence.
The Ukraine President says that he realized that the coup was pre planned. He left Kiev by helicopter with his motor cavalcade as a decoy.
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The motorcade came under attack. Apparently they were told to kill the President.
In light of this, I can now see the parallels between Shaheen Bagh, Delhi riots and the Farmer protests. Many elements of the modus operandi are similar.
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I now understand why the Indian govt took back the farm laws and why the PM said he was doing it in the interest of the nation.
The same elements were there
A) Money through various front organizations
B) Punjabi entertainers
C) Radical elements
D) SM influencers
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E) Demonisation of Modi in the western media and press
F) Indian media houses behind some of these
G) The use of violence at Singhur and on Jan 26th
H) the use of tractors. In Ukraine, they had used bulldozers against the police.
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Don't take my word for it. Watch it for yourself and come to your own conclusions.
If they are different from mine, I would love to know.
Shall write a note detailed thread later, but this movie is stark and visceral.
Anupam Kher and the lady who acts as Sharda. The pain in their eyes is reflective of the collective pain of the Kashmiri Pandits.I feel the guilt on behalf of India
That we let this happen to them, to our own people. That they have had to suffer this on their own, their stories unfold, their cries unheard, their Hope's of justice dashed by an uncaring state, and even more uncaring fellow citizens.
We walked out of the movie in stunned silence.
The last scene was SO raw that it stunned the mind. I don't want to say more since it would act as a spoiler.
I saw this and apart from the deviousness of Kejri, the following struck me: Vishwas says that Punjabis will NEVER accept a Hindu CM because Punjabi's worldwide will not. Punjabi is an emotion! So let me understand this. Sikhs are a majority in one state and they will NOT accept
a non-Sikh Leader. Kashmiris have a Muslim majority SO of course they will NOT accept a Hindu CM. Nagaland has a Christian majority so of course they will have to have a Christian CM. But, Hindus, who are in a majority in India are supposed to and HAVE accepted..
a Parsi COAS, a Jewish General who helped win a war, Sikh COAS, Sikh Presidents and PM, Christian power behind the PM's throne, sundry Christian CMs because ... because we are supposed to show our secular credentials all the time?
I love the fact that Hindus are like this.
Sharing a bit about my literary influences here. As a writer. Thanks to @BoredMallu for seeding this.
I have read pretty much the gamut (more reflective of my age than anything else) from the Russians to the Brit classicals to Victor Hugo, Tolkien, to Maclean, PGW, Wilbur Smith
@BoredMallu John Grisham, Sidney Sheldon, Perry Mason, Agatha Christie, Louis L'Amour, Sherlock Holmes, Kalki etc etc.
When writing however, I realized that there were five authors who have had a major impact in the way I structure the book and my thought process.
They are, in no particular order,
PG Wodehouse
Jeffrey Archer
Kalki
Louis L'Amour
Alistair Maclean
I especially like a quote attributed to Louis L'Amour where he says "I think of myself as a storyteller, a modern day troubador". That always appealed to me.
1/ I just love professionalism. In whatever field it is displayed. Be it a man making a dosai or someone ironing clothes, or the CEO of a company.
There is something abt seeing a professional ay work that warms the cockles of my heart.
This is the story of one such person, Saqib.
2/ Saqib is a barber by profession. Last week, I had booked a barber through Urban clap to show up at 10:30 AM. He never did. When we called him up at 12:00, he said that he was with another customer and would reach at 1:00 PM. We had to cancel.With Saqib, the experience was diff
3/ He called up last night to confirm the place and time. We had asked for him to show up at 7:30 AM. At 7:25 AM, the bell rang. I saw an immaculately dressed gentleman with a strolley, standing outside.
1/ I went to a Hanumanji Temple today. Had darshan, circumambulated thrice and then sat down.
The sounds were soothing, reassuring. There were three ringing of bells. The chants of Rama Rama Hare Hare, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare.
There was a mother with her two young kids...
2/ She had a 8 yr old boy and perhaps a 2 year old girl and was trying to teach them some mantras.
I closed my eyes. I could then hear sounds more distinctly. The sounds of anklets on the feet of girls, the whispers and murmurs of the crowd, the sounds of feet ...
3/ brushing against the floor as people walked around the shrine.
I could hear the mantras that the mother was teaching her kids.
And I realized that I was actually outside time.
What do I mean, you ask?
I felt like this could have been any time, over the last 5000 years.