U.S. To Reap Whirlwind Of ‘Color Revolutions’ Worldwide

Voice of Russia
April 12, 2014

First Tunisia, then Egypt and Libya, now Ukraine: Colour revolution scenario is a wrong one to use
Valentin Zorin

The date seems to have gone unnoticed by the western media, yet it was three years ago that the phenomenon that came to be known as the Arab Spring burst into life, first in Tunisia and then in Egypt, with pundits caught unawares by the collapse of some many-year long regimes in that important world region. The bloody death of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, civil unrest in Arab monarchies came in continuation of what politicians and political analysts have referred to as ‘colour revolutions’ in the past 20 years.

Ukraine’s Orange Revolution of 2004, the Rose Revolution in Tbilisi, and back to Kiev again, but this time the developments in Ukraine failed to avoid bloodletting. Causes may have been different in different countries, but the millions who took to the streets were all discontented with their ruling regimes and all hated the regime leaders.

But the colour revolution scenarios are suspiciously alike, as if they were written in the same place by the same person. And there is invariably an American connection to each such scenario. Each of these involved or involves US experts, politicians and generals.

Bombing attacks on Yugoslavia’s capital Belgrade, missiles that destroyed Libyan cities, the supplies of weapons to Syria’s antigovernment forces, visits by the US Vice President Dick Cheney to the raging Tbilisi, political and generous financial support for ‘orange revolutions’ are the links in the same chain.

While cynically using popular discontent with the corrupt regimes, the Washington-based politicians and security services bend every effort to harness the mass movement, and insert its people into it. This is exactly what is taking place in a most insolent way in Ukraine’s capital Kiev.

But the experience that’s been gained in recent years proves that Washington is sowing the wind, but will reap something different from what it expects. Egypt has spiralled out of control, Iraq is in its current failing state; Libya, plunged into internecine war; Syria fighting US aggression and the US disgraceful withdrawal from Afghanistan are all evidence of Washington’s strategic bankruptcy.

The situation in Ukraine has also failed to follow Washington’s scenario. Instead of a quick success, the US got another headache and fresh problems.

The days of US world domination are gone; the world has changed and hates to develop according to plans that have been drawn up on the banks of the Potomac River. Washington will have to take that into account sooner or later. Sooner is better for the world and for the US proper.