Too many liberals have embraced regime-change for Russia due to their burning hatred for Vladimir Putin.

Are you one of them?

Much of the hatred derives from Putin’s association with Donald Trump thanks to the Russia-gate psy-op, but there is also the enmity due to Russia’s perceived anti-gay stance. However, despite what liberals think, Russians are very tolerant of gays.  It is no secret that a large swathe of cultural life in Russia is dominated by gays. Not just ballet, but in other performing and visual arts as well.

The problem for Russians was when gay-rights were weaponized as an essential aspect of the neoconservative/liberal interventionists color-revolution playbook. The key architect of theses color revolutions was Gene Sharp, Sharp, who wrote The Politics of Nonviolent Action, established the Albert Einstein Institution (AEI) in 1983, along with the National Endowment for Democracy, and the International Republican Institute. Throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, AEI and associate groups, like the Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) and the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), tirelessly trained regime-change activists worldwide.

But, not in US client states like Chile, Saudi Arabia, El Salvador, Colombia and Israel. In two decades of AEI activity, there is hardly any mention of these countries. Rather, AEI and its offshoots emphasize training activists in countries like the Soviet Union, Burma, Thailand, Tibet, Yugoslavia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, and post-Soviet Belarus, Ukraine, and Georgia. These were countries thwarting the United States’ geo-strategic priorities, or otherwise resisting neoliberal economic “reforms”–deregulation, privatization, austerity-forcing social spending cuts, etc. 

After these US-backed, Sharp directed “hybrid wars”, the new leadership demonstrated greater commitment to the “Washington Consensus” and acquiescence to Western demands for neoliberal economic “restructuring” , even as “democracy”, “human rights” and LGBQT rights were the ostensible pretext. Instead, these “color revolutions,” thanks to the telltale use of official protest colors, per Sharp’s framework–were regime-change operations undertaken by the United States to punish apostates and install more compliant vassals.

The relentlessly aggressive Neocons gained control over the American foreign policy establishment more than thirty years ago, and despite their record of repeated disasters, they have successfully retained that unbroken control since then. Indeed, the very term “Neocon” includes nearly the entire Washington, DC policy establishment, including liberals, it now seems.

I would argue that a central asset of the Neocons has been their dominant control over the corporate media. Our world is ruled by the media, which functions as a force of mind-control, shaping the thoughts and beliefs of those individuals who deploy powerful physical weapons or possess vast financial resources. 

An essential component of the neoconservative”color revolution” toolkit has been social media. Indeed, the major reason for the attacks on TikTok is that it provides an alternative to the Silicon Valley, US intelligence, deep state propaganda nexus. TikTok is a problem precisely because it prevents them from effectively spreading American empire propaganda. Until very recently, social media was seen as the best kind of soft power–like a neoconservative “Garden of Eden”–totally controlled by the U.S. power clique.

It’s useful to read how the authors of the House bill to ban TikTok describe its pernicious effects–“Foreign adversaries have used access to data (…) to disrupt Americans’ daily lives, conduct espionage activities, and push disinformation and propaganda campaigns in an attempt to undermine our democracy and gain global influence and control.”

Talk about projection. How can you control the minds of Americans when half of them follow a platform you don’t control? With TikTok, what’s at stake is the very central nervous system of the internet. China now has privileged access to the neuronal network and the central nervous system of a body, which the U.S. had created in order to dominate the world. Essentially, TikTok and China are thus demonstrating that the days of US exclusivity and control over the social media propaganda are long gone, just as Russia had already shown that the time for US/NATO encroachment on its territory is over.

It is one thing to have to finally, belatedly accepted that the deceptive “unipolar”moment of the 1990s has been over for a long time. It is much worse to gratuitously enter the new multipolar order with a stunning, avoidable self-demolition.

In entirely unforeseen ways, the increasingly evident failure of the neocons ill-conceived plan to divide and conquer vast Russia has brought into stark relief the internal contradictions, ideological incoherence, and vast endemic corruption of American foreign policy. What’s ironic is that despite their commitment to “democracy” in regime-change countries, the neocons have a serious problems with democracy itself.  The neocons hold democracy in contempt and understand there must be “perpetual deception” between the rulers and the ruled. Like Plato’s cave, democracy is what they say it is.

What’s even more ironic is that the accelerating unraveling of the American empire has been brought about by the aggressive and intrusive neocon foreign policies. The growing autonomy of nations such as Iran, China, Russia, India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and South Africa, represent the multipolarity that’s anathema  to the neocons and proof of the bankruptcy of their blood-drenched ideology.

If you, dear liberal, support the US a proxy war against Russia in a desperate bid to regime-change Putin you are a monster, just like the rest of the chicken-hawk neocons who are desperate to prolong the bloodshed.  At this point there’s no excuse to not comprehend that the whole war was never about democracy in Ukraine but about the selfish aims of some lunatic clique in Washington DC.