US backed coups have consequences.
“History is one long laundry list of how you can’t kill ideas with brute force.
What you can do is introduce better ideas.”
I've been thinking about this statement by HRF's nostr:nprofile1qqs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9spzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj7spz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kueg6g89xw for a few weeks. Notably, HRF as an organization is strictly "non-violent" – they're only willing to support diplomatic and educational efforts to stop tyranny. If you're using force, they want nothing to do with you.
This week Russian finally took full control of the Shevchenko Lithium Ore Field in Ukraine. Yet another in a long list of minerals resources they've stolen.
That one ore deposit is estimated to have $141 billion dollars worth of lithium in it: https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/ukraine-s-lithium-wealth-diminishes-as-key-deposits-fall-to The total value of land and resources Russia has stolen is in the trillions of dollars.
Now ask yourself, is invading Ukraine a good idea for Russian? Can you convince Russians a better idea would be not invading Ukraine?
You're not going to do it by appealing to their rational self interest: stealing trillions of dollars is incredibly profitable. You're not going to do it by appealing to their humanity: they're a nation of monsters who have no qualms murdering Ukrainians in their sleep.
What you can do is change the incentives. At the moment, Russia has stolen something like $10 trillion worth of Ukrainian resources, at a cost of about 1 million casualties. That's $10 million of loot per casualty. That's a good deal, and it's precisely why they can pay soldiers enough to convince them to volunteer. If Russian gets a ceasefire now, they've profited enormously from their invasion.
Taking that property back and killing a lot more Russians will make that a much worse deal. That's exactly what needs to happen.
As for HRF, they're no different than the "defund the police" activists who tried to get incentives replaced with "dialogue". Just like those activists, HRF is a fraudulent organization whose non-profit status should be revoked. Furthermore, their connections to Russian imperialists and controlled opposition – who are literally on their board of directors – should be investigated thoroughly by the court system.
In the meanwhile, if you want to actually help stop tyranny, donate money to one of the many Ukrainian military organizations who are defeating Russia by killing Russians more effectively. Most of them even accept Bitcoin, e.g. https://wildhornets.com/en/ and https://savelife.in.ua/en/
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Agreed.
It’s amazing how much propaganda one guy can swallow.
Sadly true. Though, to give him credit, he wouldn’t be on a site like this if he was fully brainwashed like the machine would like him to be.
That being said, most people are so painfully unaware about how the entire cultural zeitgeist of the west was entirely rewritten by Marxist and occultist intellectuals after the world wars.
At this point, most people can’t even identify Marxist thinking they’ve been forced into the way a fish doesn’t know the ocean.
Was the Ukrainian People's Republic of 1919-1921 also a US-backed coup?
Wasn’t a coup, it was a fight for Independence after the Jewish Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian Empire in 1917.
US didn’t get in the Coup business until 1947.
“Best Estimate (Based on Known Evidence):
• Over 80 attempted or successful regime change operations according to historian Lindsey O’Rourke, whose work draws from declassified U.S. documents and academic research.
• Of these, at least 20–30 are widely considered to be successful coups that replaced governments, often in favor of U.S.-aligned or anti-communist regimes.
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Well-Documented U.S.-Backed Coups Include:
1. Iran (1953) – CIA and British MI6 overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.
2. Guatemala (1954) – CIA ousted President Jacobo Árbenz.
3. Congo (1960–1961) – U.S. helped remove and facilitate the murder of Patrice Lumumba.
4. Brazil (1964) – U.S. supported a military coup against President João Goulart.
5. Chile (1973) – U.S. supported the military coup that overthrew Salvador Allende, bringing Pinochet to power.
6. Indonesia (1965–66) – U.S. supported the military’s purge of communists and suspected sympathizers, leading to Suharto’s rise.
7. Honduras (2009) – Though officially denied, the U.S. gave tacit support to the coup against President Manuel Zelaya.
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Other Notable Interventions That Shaped or Supported Coups:
• Vietnam (1963) – U.S. involvement in the overthrow and assassination of President Diem.
• Libya (2011) – Not a coup in the classic sense, but U.S./NATO involvement contributed to the collapse of Gaddafi’s regime.
• Venezuela (2002) – U.S. was aware of and sympathetic to the coup against Hugo Chávez, though did not directly orchestrate it.”
I'm not ready to talk about topics other that Ukraine, because I don't have enough knowledge. By your phrase and context I understood that you think that maidan was us-backed coup. I don't think so.