U.S. shouldn't have double standards on weaponized protest movements
Andrew Korybko- Failure to do so is a gross manipulation of the war on terror for self-interested ends and exposes state hypocrisy.
Russian Deputy Envoy to the United Nations Dmitry Polyanskiy made a powerful point on Twitter earlier this week when he asked, “Why do you call storming by protesters of the U.S. Capitol ‘domestic terrorism’ and similar and much more bloody events in Kiev in 2014 ‘revolution of dignity’?”
Many remember how America praised the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, which overthrew President Viktor Yanukovich, in the aftermath of a run-off vote.
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