What Color Is The Sky In Your Revolution?

.@StephenM on the “Seditious Six”: “They should be held accountable under the law and under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for a seditious conspiracy against the United States of America.”

“For what purpose would you ever deliver this message?… It’s to create a color… pic.twitter.com/L6p7dlker7

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 26, 2025

. @StephenM on the “Seditious Six”: “They should be held accountable under the law and under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for a seditious conspiracy against the United States of America.”

“For what purpose would you ever deliver this message?… It’s to create a color revolution. It is the CIA playbook for trying to foment insurrection from within the military…”

The White House is proud of this.

 Wait, what’s the problem here?

The colour revolutions (also spelt color revolutions) were a series of often non-violent protests and accompanying (attempted or successful) changes of government and society that took place in post-Soviet states (particularly Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan) and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the early 21st century. The aim of the colour revolutions was to establish Western-style democracies. They were primarily triggered by election results widely viewed as falsified. The colour revolutions were marked by the use of the internet as a method of communication, as well as a strong role of non-governmental organizations in the protests.

“CIA Playbook,” huh? 🤔 

Government figures in Russia, such as Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (in office from 2012 to 2024) and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (in office from 2004), have characterized colour revolutions as externally-fuelled acts with a clear goal of influencing the internal affairs that destabilize the economy, conflict with the law and represent a new form of warfare. Russian President Vladimir Putin stated in November 2014 that Russia must prevent any colour revolutions in Russia: "We see what tragic consequences the wave of so-called colour revolutions led to. For us, this is a lesson and a warning. We should do everything necessary so that nothing similar ever happens in Russia". In December 2023 Putin stated that "the so-called color revolutions" had "been used by the Western elites in many world regions more than once" as "methods of such destabilization". He added "But these scenarios have failed to work and I am convinced will never work in Russia, a free, independent and sovereign state."

Hmmmm:

What were the color revolutions? The phrase encompasses a set of political changes across the postcommunist world that can be divided into three categories: transformative elections, “electoral revolutions” as such, and “postelectoral” popular uprisings. Electoral transitions varied dramatically with regard to the significance of the oppositions’ actual victory in elections, the size of the crowds that turned out in the streets in support of the opposition, the geopolitical context of the transitions, and the long-term consequences of these electoral revolutions for the countries where they occurred. In seeking to explain these events, diffusion and structure need not be viewed as mutually exclusive causal variables. Indeed, diffusion, working in different structural and cultural contexts, has produced diverse political outcomes.

Pull one thread, the whole thing unravels.