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James Irwin's avatar

Someone wants to start more turmoil. Perhaps times have become easier? More food and money available. The experts are reprinting maps and arm sales are providing cheap prices?

What agencies and BANKS?

Herman's avatar

I wonder how much the protesters, or a substantial part of them, were paid in Nepal. In the Maidan "Revolution" in 2014, the rate was 100 USD a man/woman a day.* Maybe Nepalese protests are cheaper, but you have to account for a decade of inflation. In any case, it must have been peanuts for NED and Soros combined.

*According to Thomas Röper. Gesteuerte Wahrheit. Kopp Verlag, Rottenburg, 2025, p.41. The author claims that this is firsthand information.

James Schwartz's avatar

The EU getting ready to slap tariffs on China and India. With Nepal not running to join BRICS. India made its choice and Modi paraded around on world wide TV with Putin and Xi. I doubt that garnered much support at home as he’s been in shaky ground already. A western tariff on Indian and Chinese goods isolates both countries even more. Those delusions of grandeur are sinking by the minute.

Andrew Korybko's avatar

Yes, faux populist pretexts, as in false, artificial ones. What I'm suggesting in this context is that the radicalism that fueled or was exploited as the basis for Nepal's two days of carnage, which physically destroyed its governing institutions, isn't real populism.

I genuinely don't believe that average folks as a whole anywhere in the world have such suicidal impulses. Some opportunists try to claim that this is real populism but I very strongly disagree.

Even those in these countries like Nepal who might disagree as well could be pressured into thinking that this is what "everyone else" (for the most part) wants. Genuine populism is about building, not destroying. What happened in Nepal wasn't a real populist revolt.