From 2019 to 2024 USAID in Nepal funded a project named Tayar, which literally means "prepare." Under the guise of disaster risk management they trained and prepared over 1000 Nepalese color revolutionaries. It's the same old playbook as in Ukraine.
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You are absolutely right. Look at the protests in Nepal and Indonesia and compare that to what's happening in the Philippines. Entire towns were flooded and many people lost everything... and yet not a single protest. Make no mistake about it, while incompetence is common place within the governments of the global south, we should be wary of western elites taking advantage of the protests for their own gain.
Locked out of action by Western countries, just as the Pakistani F-16s during the night of May 7/8.
This is The Arabic Soft Power. Qatar may have provided economic life line to countries that Saudis not like or that Turkish base should be evicted. regardless Israel demonstrated reliability of its airpower working long distance and no countries in the region inform Qatar about it.
There is a reason why China doesn't back governments just because they are slightly friendly to China. A lot of them are actually quite weak and are deficient in integrity.
The Army is now in charge. The commander, Ashok Raj Sigdel studied at Beijing National Defense University, so should be seen as at least China neutral for now.
The previously 2 parties in charge, one Nepali Congress is ex-SocDem current generic neo-libs that are pro-India, the other is Marx-Leninist that's anti-India, but friendlier towards both US and China. Both are effectively ousted as a result of this protest.
The pro-monarchist factions are basically religious conservatives, they have some backing from nearby Indian Hindus and some other Asian conservatives like Japan, but are scattered in its organization and ideology, should be seen as close to western backed Iranians (i.e.: a bunch of Israeli backed monarchists working with pseudo-communists) as a confused "wrecker" opposition.
The Maoist are hurt by their previous association with the government, but were in opposition and can thus have some "political distance" to work from. Whether this is workable in the oncoming political arena will be seen.