Sometimes you hear something that stops you cold.
I was making coffee the other morning when a clip came across my feed: retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, voice steady but deadly serious, telling the world that the United States is currently undergoing a color revolution an attempt at regime change on our own soil, directed at a president who hasn’t even been sworn in yet.
Most people think color revolutions happen somewhere else Kiev, Tbilisi, Cairo. Not here. But Flynn wasn’t speaking in hypotheticals. He was describing tactics he’s seeing play out right now, in real time, inside America.
What Exactly Is a Color Revolution, Anyway?
If you’re like most folks, the term sounds vaguely academic, something you skimmed in a political-science textbook once and immediately forgot. Let me break it down the way it was explained to me years ago by someone who actually ran these operations overseas.
A color revolution (sometimes called a “soft coup”) is a carefully orchestrated campaign to overthrow a government without most people realizing a coup is even happening. It almost never starts with tanks in the streets. It starts with narratives.
The playbook is always the same:
- Relentless media bombardment declaring the target leader “illegitimate”
- Street protests that appear spontaneous but are professionally organized
- NGOs flooded with cash to train activists and pay for logistics
- Judicial harassment (lawfare) to tie up the target in court
- Leaks, scandals, and manufactured crises on a rolling schedule
- Pressure on the military and security services to “refuse illegal orders”
- Elite defections at the decisive moment
When you lay it out like that, it doesn’t feel foreign at all, does it?
The “Seditious Six” Video That Crossed the Line
The moment that apparently pushed Flynn past the tipping point was a video released just after Thanksgiving. Six retired senior military officers three- and four-star generals and admirals sat in front of American flags and delivered what sounded like a scripted public-service announcement.
Their message? Members of the armed forces should be prepared to refuse orders from the incoming commander-in-chief if those orders seem “illegal or immoral.”
They never defined what those orders might be.
“This is textbook sedition under 18 U.S.C. § 2387,” Flynn said. “You don’t get to pre-declare mutiny and call it patriotism.”
Think about that for a second. Six of the most senior retired officers in the country just told active-duty troops to consider disobeying the next president. In any other context, that would be front-page news for weeks. Instead, it barely caused a ripple in legacy media.
A Decade of Unrestricted Warfare Against One Man
Flynn didn’t pull the color-revolution label out of thin air. He walked through a timeline that, honestly, reads like a thriller novel if it weren’t so terrifying because it’s real.
2016: Russia-collusion hoax cooked up within weeks of the election.
2017-2019: Special counsel, endless leaks, dawn raids on associates.
2020: Summer of riots timed perfectly with the election year.
2021-2024: Two impeachments, multiple criminal indictments, civil suits, gag orders.
2025: Before Trump even takes the oath, we’re already seeing coordinated messages about military refusal.
That’s not normal politics. That’s unrestricted warfare a term the Chinese military uses for operations that combine law, media, finance, and psychology to destroy an enemy without firing a shot.
And the American left has been running this playbook domestically for almost ten years straight.
Follow the Money: The NGO Industrial Complex
One of the biggest revelations in recent years and it’s still not discussed nearly enough is how much of this is bankrolled by a handful of billionaire foundations and “non-governmental” organizations that operate with zero transparency.
Investigators have mapped out entire networks:
- Hundreds of millions flowing from a few mega-donors into “democracy promotion” groups
- Those groups then fund the protest organizers, the legal teams, the media trainers
- Many of the same NGOs that ran color revolutions overseas suddenly pivoted to domestic work after 2016
- Some even kept the same staff and the same training manuals
When people say “follow the money,” this is what they mean. It’s not conspiracy theory when the tax filings and grant databases are public.
Why a National Address Matters More Than You Think
Flynn’s core demand is simple: President-elect Trump needs to go on national television, prime time, no teleprompter if he wants, and lay it all out for the American people.
Not a tweet. Not a rally speech. A calm, deliberate address that does three things:
- Names the operation for what it is a color revolution
- Explains the tactics so average citizens can spot them
- Outlines immediate countermeasures (de-funding radical NGOs, protecting military chain of command, etc.)
Why is this so urgent? Because color revolutions only work in the dark. Once the playbook is exposed to sunlight, the spell breaks. The moment the public understands they’re watching a scripted production, the actors lose their power.
I’ve watched this happen overseas. The second the people realize the “spontaneous” protests are paid for and choreographed, turnout collapses overnight.
The Military Angle Nobody Wants to Talk About
Here’s the part that keeps me up at night.
In every successful color revolution, there’s a moment when key elites defect. Usually it’s senior officers who announce they “can no longer follow illegal orders.” That announcement is the green light for chaos.
We just watched six retired officers try to lay the groundwork for exactly that scenario.
If even a small percentage of active-duty flag officers start echoing that language in the coming weeks, the risk level goes exponential.
Flynn’s point: the only way to inoculate the military is for the incoming commander-in-chief to speak directly to the troops, remind them of their oath to the Constitution, and make crystal clear that the chain of command will be respected.
What Happens If They Succeed?
Let’s not sugar-coat it.
If this operation works, Trump is removed from the board one way or another long before any policy gets implemented. The America First movement gets branded domestic terrorism. Borders stay open. Censorship regimes harden. And the people who voted for change wake up in a country that feels like it changed owners overnight.
That’s not hyperbole. That’s the endgame of every color revolution: replacement of one power structure with another, usually far less accountable to voters.
The Clock Is Ticking
We’re now seven weeks from Inauguration Day.
The pressure campaigns are only going to intensify: more leaks, more “bombshell” stories, more street theater, more calls for military “conscience.”
General Flynn’s warning isn’t politically convenient. It’s uncomfortable. It forces everyone to pick a side.
But uncomfortable doesn’t mean wrong.
In my view, the next move belongs to Trump. A single address could defuse the entire operation. Silence, on the other hand, will be interpreted as weakness and the plotters will take that as their cue to escalate.
We’ve seen this movie before. We know how it ends when the target refuses to name the threat.
The question is whether we’re willing to watch the sequel play out on American soil.
One way or another, the next few weeks will decide a lot more than cabinet picks.
Stay sharp.
