Talk about Hypocrisy: A US Government Guide to Overthrowing Foreign Governments! By Charles Taylor

     The Democrats have been going on about Russia meddling in the US 2016 election since it happened, and no amount of refutation has hosed them down. It has become a religious premise with their politically correct theology. But, still, if there is any reason still left, shouldn’t the US not meddle in other countries, let alone actively overthrow them, at the command of the Dark Lords of Mordor?
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-11/us-special-forces-command-issues-new-guide-overthrowing-foreign-governments
  https://www.newsweek.com/us-guide-overthrow-government-special-forces-school-1419837

“The official school of the United States' Special Operations Command has published a new paper detailing a decades-long history of Pentagon-backed interference around the world, hoping to provide insight on how best to approach such efforts in the present and future. The 250-page study, "Support to Resistance: Strategic Purpose and Effectiveness," was compiled by Army Special Forces veteran Will Irwin and published earlier this week by the official Joint Special Operations University, where he was a resident senior fellow. Though the report notes that its views "are entirely those of the author," its findings present a comprehensive look at how the U.S. has supported efforts to pressure, undermine and overthrow foreign governments. The report includes some 47 case studies spanning from 1941 to 2003, detailing a legacy of mixed results that included assisting partisans against the Axis Power satellites during World War II, bolstering anti-communist forces throughout the Cold War and taking on post-9/11 adversariesin Afghanistan and Iraq. The numerous Washington-orchestrated coups of the past 70 years were "not included in this study as they did not involve legitimate resistance movements." "This work will serve as a benchmark reference on resistance movements for the benefit of the special operations community and its civilian leadership," the report reads.

The cases were broken down into three major support to resistance (STR) categories: disruption, coercion and regime change. The report found that "from 1940 to the present, nearly 70 percent of STR operations were conducted for disruptive purposes," while "non-disruptive cases were about equally divided between coercion and overthrow." Of the 47 cases analyzed, 23 were deemed "successful," 20 were designated "failures," two were classified as "partially successful" and two more—both during World War II—were called "inconclusive" as the broader conflict led to an Allied victory anyway. Coercion was the most successful method at a three-quarters rate of success or partial success, while disruption worked just over half the time and regime change only yielded the desired result in 29 percent of the cases reviewed. Other major findings included observations that most operations "were carried out under wartime conditions, with those being nearly twice as successful as cases conducted under peacetime conditions" and "support to nonviolent civil resistance seems to be more likely to succeed than support to armed resistance." At the same time, they were also "most effective when conducted in direct support of a military campaign rather than as an independent or main effort operation." In eight of the 20 failures found, the author blamed security breaches that clued the enemy in ahead of time, sometimes potentially through coverage in U.S. media, as may have been the case with newspaper stories prior to the abortive CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.”

     The full report is here:
  https://jsou.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=48094050

     The above story is from Newsweek, a leading mainstream publication, so it is clear that nobody is denying that the US overthrows governments. Why, Iran and Venezuela are next in line. So, it is also clear, by that principle that there is nothing wrong with Russia meddling in US elections, for that is just how things are done. After all, here in Australia, we have long ago surrendered our sovereignty to whoever has the most money. There is a word for that, isn’t there?
  https://clivehamilton.com/books/silent-invasion-chinas-influence-in-australia/

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