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{{Cquote|... the idea of an “[[Arab Spring]]” for the entire Arab world that President Obama, Secretary Clinton, and investor [[George Soros]] strongly promoted turned out to be based on a naïve idealism that instead undermined the [[rule of law]] and led to [[anarchy]], [[starvation]], and a [[European migrant crisis|refugee crisis]] that hurt [[citizen]]s more than the [[dictatorship]]s that preceded it.<ref>[https://appliedunificationism.com/2016/02/08/best-policy-ideas-of-the-2016-presidential-candidates/ The Best Policy Ideas of the 2016 Presidential Candidates], Gordon Anderson - February 8, 2016</ref>}}

{{Cquote|... the idea of an “[[Arab Spring]]” for the entire Arab world that President Obama, Secretary Clinton, and investor [[George Soros]] strongly promoted turned out to be based on a naïve idealism that instead undermined the [[rule of law]] and led to [[anarchy]], [[starvation]], and a [[European migrant crisis|refugee crisis]] that hurt [[citizen]]s more than the [[dictatorship]]s that preceded it.<ref>[https://appliedunificationism.com/2016/02/08/best-policy-ideas-of-the-2016-presidential-candidates/ The Best Policy Ideas of the 2016 Presidential Candidates], Gordon Anderson - February 8, 2016</ref>}}

A “Color Revolution” in this context refers to a specific type of coordinated attack that the United States government has been known to deploy against foreign regimes, particularly in Eastern Europe deemed to be “authoritarian” and hostile to American interests. Rather than using a direct [[military]] [[intervention]] to effect regime change as in [[Iraq]], Color Revolutions attack a foreign regime by contesting its electoral legitimacy, organizing mass protests and acts of civil disobedience, and leveraging [[media]] contacts to ensure favorable coverage to their agenda in the [[Western]] press.<ref>https://www.revolver.news/2020/09/transition-integrity-project-is-this-soros-linked-group-plotting-a-color-revolution-against-president-trump/</ref>

A “Color Revolution” in this context refers to a specific type of coordinated attack that the United States government has been known to deploy against foreign regimes, particularly in Eastern Europe deemed to be “authoritarian” and hostile to American interests. Rather than using a direct [[military]] [[intervention]] to effect regime change as in [[Iraq]], Color Revolutions attack a foreign regime by contesting its electoral legitimacy, organizing mass protests and acts of civil disobedience, and leveraging [[media]] contacts to ensure favorable coverage to their agenda in the [[Western]] press.<ref>https://www.revolver.news/2020/09/transition-integrity-project-is-this-soros-linked-group-plotting-a-color-revolution-against-president-trump/</ref>

==Color revolutions are not about color==

==Color revolutions are not about color==