Posted on 12/06/2025 5:13:59 AM PST by MtnClimber
A “color revolution” (sometimes called a “soft coup” or “regime-change operation by non-kinetic means”) is a modern form of orchestrated political upheaval designed to replace an existing government without traditional military invasion or civil war. The term arose from events in the early 2000s, such as Serbia’s Bulldozer Revolution (2000) and Georgia’s Rose Revolution (2003). These operations follow a remarkably consistent playbook, refined over two decades by Western NGOs, intelligence-linked foundations, and State Department-affiliated entities (Open Society Foundations, USAID, etc.).
Authors describe seven stages of a color revolution. The stages include these tactics, which I’ll list in approximate chronological order:
- Portray the target government as illegitimate, authoritarian, corrupt, or “fascist.”
- Front-load allegations: accuse incumbent of planning the crimes the opposition intends to commit (rigging, regression, dictatorship).
- Fund and train NGOs, student groups, and opposition politicians to repeat a unified message.
- Create/amplify a unifying symbol or theme (e.g., Orange Man Bad).
- Manufacture an electoral crisis.
- Street mobilization.
- Public appeals to and moral blackmail of the military and police: “You’re with the people, not the regime.”
- Promises of immunity, future positions for defectors.
- Threats to those who support target government.
- Provoke a response, flood media with images of “peaceful protesters” being attacked.
- International legitimation as foreign governments and media recognizes opposition leaders as “legitimate” authority.
- Sanctions, frozen assets, diplomatic isolation applied to sitting government.
- New elections scheduled under international supervision.
We’re approaching the final four stages of this process with the Seditious Six’s “advice” to the military about alleged “illegal orders”, and threats to those who obey the POTUS. These warnings have eroded military cohesion, priming them for institutional resistance against Trump's policies on immigration enforcement and domestic security.
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Gregory Burgess:
“So let me get this straight — Donald J. Trump spends four years in office getting attacked from every direction by the swamp creatures: impeached twice, spied on, lied about, accused of everything short of sinking the Titanic — and through it all, he never pardoned himself, never ran, never hid, and never backed down.
Then Biden shuffles in, and suddenly real corruption is fashionable again. The man’s family turns “public service” into a global ATM, raking in millions from China, Ukraine, and whoever else was dumb enough to Venmo “The Big Guy.” And when his time’s up? He signs a blanket pardon for his whole damn family — like it’s Black Friday at the Department of Justice.
But here’s the kicker:
While Trump’s out of office — minding his own business in Florida — they launch every bogus charge imaginable just to keep him from coming back. Indictments, investigations, mugshots, witch hunts… hell, they probably checked if he returned his Blockbuster rentals from 1998.
They tried to bankrupt him.
They tried to jail him.
They tried to erase him.
And yet — here he is. Back in the Oval. Still standing. Still swinging. Still terrifying the same people who said he’d never make it past Iowa.
Now he starts using the one power that belongs solely to the President — the power to pardon — and suddenly the media’s having a collective nervous breakdown like someone told them TikTok was getting banned.
“That’s an abuse of power!” they shriek.
Really?
Where was that energy when Biden was pardoning his own family of felons?
This isn’t journalism anymore — it’s gaslighting with a side of amnesia.
The same people who weaponized the justice system for four years are now clutching their pearls because the guy they tried to destroy didn’t stay destroyed.
You don’t get to frame a man, persecute him, and then whine when he uses his legal right to set things straight.
That’s not democracy.
That’s delusion.
And it’s rich as hell coming from the same crew that turned the DOJ into a Biden Family Law Firm.”
Thanks, GOPJ. Good to read and understand the stages of the so-called color revolution.
Trump and team have countered with their own very effective strategy of stopping this dark and dirty revolution from spreading.
And the Trump multi-jeweled strategy is working like a charm. And the multi-colored revolution and violence in the streets has being painted over with law, order, and fine statues of American heroes.
The author isn't grasping that, going back to the Russian collusion hoax, color revolution attempts against Trump have always been a uniparty effort with establishment Republicans in on it.
It's important to realize this is a struggle between corrupt politicians in both parties with a globalist agenda against those that want to put interests of the country and the people in it first.
Globalists, not communists, are behind all this.
Yes all that is happening but it happened 10 times worse in his first presidency and even with Reagan and Bush. But they didn’t succeed.
It’s just the opposition being the opposition.
If anything Trump is in a much stronger position this time around, with a much stronger team and more popular support and more international support. The world is shifting to the right.
The “no kings” charade was a total bust, a joke. Cat ladies meowing at the moon.
And the only new election that’s going to happen is the one we have every two years,with the next one coming next year.
If the Rats win that one Trump will still be president.
The US is not some third world dump (yet) so all this talk about “color revolution” is just talking heads trying to impress simpletons with their edgy analysis.
Cat ladies meowing at the moon.
You win the internet today!!!
Globalists are a variety of communists, just like when there were Stalinist and Trotskyite factions in the international communist movement. They don’t all admit to being communists and think of themselves as democratic socialists (or in some cases as neo-conservatives).
But there is no real difference between the politics of the Soviet Union post-Stalin, and the globalist movement. It is international and relies on exploiting grievances and divisions existing in non-globalist countries to move into positions of power. It is much more effective than the old communists were, and it has taken over most of academia and the mainstream media. Had it not been for the rise of independent media in the internet age, we would be well into an Orwellian Big Brother dystopia around the world already.
But that is the end game. Whether one calls it communist or not is irrelevant, it is a tyranny of enforced thought by powerful elites. At the end of the day, communism and fascism are almost the same thing, the only real difference between them is on the question of nationalism. A fascist dictatorship will make adherence to the national identity the foundation, whereas a communist regime will make the Party the foundation. I would say therefore, communism is just fascism on a global scale, the communist national foundation is international, the concept that every national society is to be a duplicate of an international template.
National differences in culture or religion threaten this but can be tolerated as long as the cultures and religions obey the globalist commands on what thought is acceptable.
Trump’s second term is just holding back the flood tide, it will start all over again the moment any successor to Trump fails to win election. The color revolution is in pause mode at this point, its proponents are ready to restart it at any time. And this will continue to be the case until something attracts progressives away from globalism towards some other philosophy, which could be never.
It's not just rats laughing at her. She's an empty skirt and needs to be fired. All she's accomplished is to pad her resume for post POTUS Trump.
The key to countering this coup is to follow the money to identify and publicize the ones paying for the coup. Not easily done but less troublesome in western countries with managed economies than in a third world country. But you can bet that a Soros is involved. And for the life of me I don’t understand why he has not been charged on a regular basis.
bump
It’s not just rats laughing at her. She’s an empty skirt and needs to be fired. All she’s accomplished is to pad her resume for post POTUS Trump.
I trust Trump more than the lying fake news and you.
There are still too many Biden and Obama holdovers in the DOJ. And Democrats in the Senate are constantly obstructing approval of nominations from the Trump administration for additional staff. (See most recent maneuvers from Bennett D-Colorado)
It would help a lot if the Republican Senate leader would recess the Senate and allow Trump to make recess appointments. But Thune refuses to do that.
The GOPe does not generally support President Trump even now.
That’s a sort of distinction without a difference, near as anyone can tell
I think that is the reason Mark Kelly stings so bad. He was a warrior. He understands the bond of brotherhood the military fosters. The idea that if we watch our shipmates' six, we may all get to go home. So I am left wondering why? Is it personal ambition? Was he always a traitor and just good at hiding it? Idk, it just sucks.
A little folk song I hope he hears one day.
Globalists and communists are the same unit two stories one goal.
I think the color revolution is almost over.
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are you saying that you feel that the color revolution has almost been completed?
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