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Even worse, the Arab Spring protests were not a phenomenon that was spontaneously organized, but was the result of careful planning by American government-financed organizations.

Here's an NY Times article about this at that time: https://archive.md/LzQjB

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To be fair, the US was supporting the other side as well:

> “While we appreciated the training we received through the NGOs sponsored by the U.S. government, and it did help us in our struggles, we are also aware that the same government also trained the state security investigative service, which was responsible for the harassment and jailing of many of us,” said Mr. Fathy, the Egyptian activist.

The US government seems to do a lot of this, funding both sides of an overseas political conflict to induce chaos within the country, which would destabilize them in the long run and make them powerless to fight against US imperial interests. Ah postmodern realpolitiks, Putin would be really proud...

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