🧩 BND Motif Index · M847
The regime-change playbook
Make the people suffer, sanctions, blockades, cut-off supplies, blame their government for the misery, then use the chaos to justify intervening: the old playbook, said to be running again.
- 2claims filed under it
- 4left shows it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Foreign meddling
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Color revolution
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 4
🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show 🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast 🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast)
⚖️ center 1
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-07 “Trump's trade wars have caused the price of many goods to increase.”
🎙️ The Daily (NYT) 🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show - 2026-10-06 “Donald Trump uses economic pressure and instability in foreign countries to justify regime change or new leadership.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast
M847 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works