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Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests by jessaustin on Friday August 21, 2020 @02:22PM (#24237477)
It's certainly true that politicians can be unpopular for entirely local reasons. For instance, most politicians in USA, for at least the last decade. They are corrupt and incompetent, so they are unpopular.

However, both TFA and other things I've read about Belarus have a very "Euromaidan"/"Kong Tsung-gan" flavor to them. This is the sort of thing CIA does. They publicly claim this is the sort of thing they should do. Why would they be sitting this one out?

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Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests by ClumsyPilot on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:00PM (#24237814)
This is a myopic eastern-European worldview where general population are sheep and nothing ever happens unless some sort of Illuminati has planned it.

CIA does a lot of things, but they are not the only ones, and they can't be everywhere at once.

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