Yeah the whole “had taken power” in OPs article pretty much shows its bias. The Houthis were never elected into power in Yemen, they forcibly took power after exploiting the peoples’ rebellion against the elites.
The Iranian propaganda was really effective on leftists and on Reddit in general. There’s an actual subreddit that started tracking foreign influence campaigns on reddit because of this
No, it isn’t. The CIA are not good at statecraft. The FSB/GRU and formerly the KGB were great at that stuff. The CIA “won” the cold war because the CCCP was incompetent not because America was good at anything.
Yeah the whole “had taken power” in OPs article pretty much shows its bias. The Houthis were never elected into power in Yemen, they forcibly took power after exploiting the peoples’ rebellion against the elites.
The Iranian propaganda was really effective on leftists and on Reddit in general. There’s an actual subreddit that started tracking foreign influence campaigns on reddit because of this
Historically, whenever civil war suddenly breaks out in any country (not just in the middle east), it’s the CIA 9 times out of 10
No, it isn’t. The CIA are not good at statecraft. The FSB/GRU and formerly the KGB were great at that stuff. The CIA “won” the cold war because the CCCP was incompetent not because America was good at anything.
Morons say that every time, until declassification occurs decades later. At some point you need to start seeing the signs
That may not be wrong historically.
But the CIA had what interest exactly in toppling the US-supported authoritarian regimes in the Middle East with the “Arab Spring” in 2011?
it’s wrong historically. the CIA was never good at that stuff