When a minority group lacks sufficient political or military strength to replace a government domestically, it can create the appearance of instability in the street that justifies foreign intervention on humanitarian grounds. In her book on NATO’s Yugoslavia war, Fools’ Crusade , Diana Johnstone explains that . . . when real or potential rebel groups are made to understand that Great Powers can arbitrarily decide to intervene on the basis of a humanitarian catastrophe, the incentive becomes enormous to manufacture just such a catastrophe, or the appearance of such a catastrophe, in order to get decisive military support from outside. Johnstone argues that this coup strategy was employed in Yugoslavia. Similar strategies may recently have been attempted in Libya and Syria. And the same strategy may be being employed as part of the current plan in Venezuela where the 2013 Strategic Venezuela Plan recommends creating situations of crisis in the streets that will facilitate U.S. intervention, as well as NATO forces, with the support of the Colombian government. original.antiwar/Ted_Snider/2014/03/09/ukraine-and-twenty-first-century-coups/
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