/pol/ was really full tilt on these things back then, the maidan was because we saw the snipers shooting the protesters and we wanted to invigorate the revolutionary spirit at home, nobody seriously thought NATO would be stupid enough to do what they did and in retrospect, had been doing for 20 years. a sophomoric failure, we were literally led by the nose by the CIA on that one. Turkey was essentially the same thing but it failed and backfired on the glowniggers, they even tried again some years later and failed again. For /pol/ The arab spring wasn't about helping arabs it was about destabilizing muslim governments because fuck muslims, a mighty short sighted goal in retrospect, but nobody thought refugee rules and common sense about ethnic and racial lines which stood forever would be thrown out and nobody really thought sand niggers would just wave niggers through to europe, we figured revolutions would just make their countries suck more and take a bite out of their population growth. and yet again the revolutionary spirit was something we perceived as infectious, some also thought regional dissatisfaction could mount and turn the relatively docile former enemies to israel against israel again in a big way, there was also hope that the muslim brotherhood would be targeted and taken down, to be clear yes we translated a certain book into arabic but we were only really trying to get it to the egyptians, of course it did get everywhere arab is the lingua franca. A major unifying and driving factor in our thinking was also that in each of these cases they were trying to shut down the internet and the spirit of anonymous was only just waning, we were incensed and driven to action by censorship in each case, and knowing how to make nigger-rigged gas masks, and napalm weren't exactly the deciding factors, but we did see them used. Like I said, this translation work is a serious regret of mine. /pol/ got played hard during that time.