It’s almost like you don’t read. I know about the insanity of LaRouche. I’ve seen that video. It’s totally irrelevant to the conversation. The only thing that could possibly be connected to LaRouchism is that any cult and any false narrative must always have elements of truth to it. You can’t just discard true things because LaRouche incorporated them into his worldview.

It’s really important to watch it if you genuinely believe that George Soros and the NED caused the Euromaidan.

I never made this claim. I don’t know why you’re bringing it up. NED’s activities started in 1980, not 2014

Second, it is not russophobic to criticize Vladimir Putin

Correct, it’s not. What you claimed is that because I critiqued NED as a CIA carveout, you called me Vladimir Putin, and then you doubled down and said:

the term “color revolution” is part of an anti-democratic conspiracy theory promoted by various dictatorships, most notably the Russian Federation

Meanwhile, the video essay you wrote literally says this:

the National Endowment for democracy, a small NGO founded by Congress during the Reagan Administration to put a friendlier gloss on Reagan’s hyper aggressive foreign policy.

And then it goes on to spin a yarn about the psychology of how kooky people got this weird idea that the US had been training counter-revolutionaries in all over Eastern Europe.

Except, we know that’s true. Operation Gladio is part of the historical record. The CIA and NATO engaged in covert operations to organize, fund, arm, and train neo-nazis and other fascists literally all over Eastern Europe. What do you think happens when the NED is founded to do the same American foreign policy openly?

Allen Weinstein, a former acting president of NED and one of the authors of the study that led to its creation, told David Ignatius in a 1991 interview that: “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA. The biggest difference is that when such activities are done overtly, the flap potential is close to zero. Openness is its own protection.”

So how are we to take this? We know for a fact that the CIA literally trained fascist militias in the hopes of using them to fight against the Soviets and regain hegemony over those countries. And we know for a fact that the NED in 1990 is doing what the CIA used to do in 1965. And we know that classified operations remain classified for about 50 years. We will have access to the first docs regarding the collaboration of NED and the CIA in the 2030s. Until then, we have to use our understanding of history to evaluate these things.

What we know of history is that the US is a brutal, white supremacist, genocidal, mass murdering psychotic belligerent. It’s actions in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Korea should be sufficient to convince anyone of that. But we can also look at Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. If that’s not enough we can look at the School of the Americas and their training of death squads that committed atrocities all over South America (and some still do today).

So, what’s NED all about if that’s how the US operates clandestinely? NED is about openly convincing locals to fight against their own governments to achieve the same objectives that the US has when they send in racist jarheads led by psychotic genocidal generals. The US wants control over resources, over economics, over entire countries, and they don’t care who has to die to make it happen. NED is the friendly face of that. I don’t mean that poetically. That’s what all the documented evidence from NED itself says.

But, you might say, NED is an NGO and not part of the US government.

NED acknowledges its ongoing relationship with lawmakers, saying that its “continued funding is dependent on the continued support of the White House and Congress.”

And what’s the White House and Congress been up to?

Bush/Cheney - Iraq, Afghanistan
Obama/Clinton - Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia
Trump /Pence - Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia
Biden/Harris - Gaza, Somalia, Yemen, Syria
Trump/Vance - Somalia, Gaza, Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria, Syria, Iraq, Yemen

And this is just our hot conflicts. The sanctions regimes are BRUTAL and bi-partisan. In the last 50 years, US (and Euro) sanctions have killed 38 million people.

So what does it mean for NED to be a USG-founded NGO, funded by the USG, dependent on the support of the White House and Congress, designed to do US foreign policy outside of the military, and literally replacing some of the functions of historical CIA covert operations?

None of this is coming from LaRouche, Pavloski, or Putin. This is coming from inside the house. It’s also not a conspiracy. As NED says, it’s all out in the open, because being open about it is part of the way they make it defensible.

And now let’s go through your list of historical facts that you think I missed:

The US had no part in “dismantling” the Soviet Union.

Correct. The US had no part in dismantling the SU. It was dismantled by its leadership. I did not miss this fact.

The CIA did overthrow governments during the First Cold War (as did the tankies).

The idea that the CIA only overthrew governments during the First Cold War is ridiculous. The US government was overthrowing governments before the CIA was even formed and the CIA and USG has been overthrowing governments literally up to today.

More ridiculous is the idea that the two camps were talking about here are the CIA and “the tankies”. Your lack of sincere intellectual honesty is very clear and it makes sense why the Sarcasmitron video was so compelling to you.

The US did not overthrow any South American governments during the 90’s-2010’s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change#1991–present_day

It FAILED in its attempts to overthrow the government of Venezuela. That’s not representative of a change in foreign policy, it’s representative of a change in the effectiveness of US regime change operations against contemporary forms of resistance.

The two American attempts at regime change in the 2000’s, Iraq and Afghanistan, were much more heavy-handed than the Cold War era coups, and were explicitly pro-democracy, albeit imperialistic

You have got to be kidding me? Explicitly pro-democracy? No. They were propagandistically pro-democracy. They were 100% about dominance, control, wealth accumulation, resource management, and strategic military positioning.

The US has had universal hegemony, there was no point for them to spend money invading countries.

You are so delusional. https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/

the total cost of the War on Terror (since 2001) is over $8 trillion, which includes $5.8 trillion already spent and $2.2 trillion in future obligations for veterans.

The National Endowment for Democracy, founded in the 1980’s, has not had any part in any “Color Revolutions”, all it does is give grants to pro-democracy politicians and groups.

This is not a historical fact. This is an assertion you’re making. Who defines these groups as “pro-democracy”? What does it mean when the NED acting president says they’re doing what the CIA was doing? All we need to do is look at Venezuela to dismantle this assertion.

Russians could have had democracy, but they threw it away, and now all the Russian Tsarists have left are stupid conspiracy theories saying that democracy is a Jewish hoax.

The US isn’t a democracy. It’s an oligarchy. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

https://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/idr.pdf