Leaked files reviewed by The Grayzone show the US gov’t covertly funded Nepalese youth groups in the run-up to a violent coup. The “Gen Z” shadow army mobilized as the US sought to neutralize Chinese and Indian influence over Kathmandu – now controlled by a leader chosen by an informal social media poll. The US government’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) spent hundreds of thousands of dollars tutoring dozens of Nepalese youth on “strategies and skills in organizing protests and […]
I don’t think they’re mutually exclusive. The protests can be and most of the time are organic and have well-founded concerns, but from some point on the NED gains the lead because there’s just no organisation to compete with it. This just means the population lacks an already-existing organisation championing their own [sovereign] interests (which is pretty much everywhere in the world, not trying to lay blame).
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