Listed protests occurred. No source shows any US six-step manual or its use in India.
- Wrong: Trump spoke at the White House in February 2025. His second inaugural address was on 20 January 2025.
- No record found: Step three of the manual is underway in India via Gen Z Instagram demands. No source establishes any numbered step or manual.
- Prediction or opinion: 'In the coming few weeks or months the situation in India can turn violent' is a prediction.
Checked against: TheCommuneMag, The Conversation, ryangrim.substack.com, PBS News, en.wikipedia.org
Why we say that›
Reel fabricates a numbered US regime change manual from real but separate events.
One diplomat meeting and several protests are real. The reel wrongly frames them as coordinated steps in a nonexistent US manual.
Each listed protest and one meeting occurred. No source shows any numbered US manual or coordinated execution.
Reel shows only fallen leaders with 'GONE' stamps and omits any counter-examples.
Reported 18 Oct 2026
How the reel gets there
The reel says: “किसी country की सरकार गिरानी है? उसका एक manual है just six steps और पिछले four years में यह manual हमारे neighborhood में चार बार successfully execute हो चुका है.”
The record shows: Sources describe independent local protests and one US diplomatic cable in Pakistan without evidence of a unified US-written six-step manual applied to these cases.
TheCommuneMag · The Conversation · ryangrim.substack.com · en.wikipedia.org
Claims
1 false · 1 true · 18 no record
- False
Trump spoke at the White House in February 2025.
- No record found
A six-step manual for regime change has been successfully executed four times in India's neighborhood in the last four years.
What we found
The sources reviewed establish individual events in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal but do not establish any six-step US manual or its execution four times.
- No record found
In India step three of the regime change manual is currently underway.
What we found
No source establishes a numbered regime-change manual or that India is in step three of one.
- No record found
The four regime changes shown are Sri Lanka 2022, Pakistan 2022, Bangladesh 2024, Nepal 2025.
What we found
Whether the four regime changes include Pakistan 2022 alongside Sri Lanka 2022, Bangladesh 2024 and Nepal 2025 remains unsettled.
- True
On 7 March 2022 American diplomat Donald Lu met Pakistan's ambassador and, according to leaked cables, said if a no-confidence vote against Imran Khan passed, the US would support it.
What we found
The content of the leaked cable concerning the US diplomat's meeting and remarks on the no-confidence vote.
+15 smaller points we found no record of›
- No record found
Step one of the regime change process is to pick an issue or grievance.
What we found
No source establishes any numbered US step-one doctrine.
- No record found
In Sri Lanka the grievance used was food and fuel shortage.
What we found
Whether food and fuel shortage served as the grievance in Sri Lanka remains unsettled.
- No record found
In Bangladesh the grievance used was job quota.
What we found
Whether job quota served as the grievance in Bangladesh remains unsettled.
- No record found
In Nepal the grievance used was social media ban.
What we found
Whether social media ban served as the grievance in Nepal remains unsettled.
- No record found
Step two is to form groups including NGOs, independent pages, Instagram creators and student leaders already prepared.
What we found
No source establishes any numbered US step-two doctrine.
- No record found
Step two includes manipulating social media algorithms and avoiding having one face so no one can be caught.
What we found
No source establishes any numbered US step-two doctrine.
- No record found
Step three is to break trust in the system by convincing people elections are rigged and courts are bought.
What we found
No source establishes any numbered US step-three doctrine.
- No record found
Step three includes showing a lost election as evidence so everything looks true.
What we found
No source establishes any numbered US step-three doctrine.
- No record found
Step four is to trap the government in a place where it loses from every side.
What we found
No source establishes any numbered US step-four doctrine.
- No record found
Step four leads to capturing the entire country.
What we found
No source establishes any numbered US step-four doctrine.
- No record found
In India a Gen Z Instagram page is demanding the resignation of the chief election commissioner, previously EVMs, then the election commission, and now the country's chief justice.
What we found
Demands for the Chief Election Commissioner resignation but does not establish the Gen-Z Instagram page or the described EVM-to-CJI sequence.
- No record found
Step #04: Set the Trap. Government को हर तरफ से फँसाओ.
What we found
No source establishes any numbered US step-four doctrine or this phrasing.
- No record found
In Spain housing protests led to early elections.
What we found
On Spanish events but does not establish the specific causal link to early elections.
- No record found
In France school children are on the streets and more than 6000 have been arrested.
What we found
On French events but does not establish the arrest figure or framing.
- No record found
In Chile there was a students' march and an American website headline said 'this is going global'.
What we found
On protests but does not establish the headline or framing.
The full story, from the sources›
A government ban on 26 social media apps… triggered widespread protests… Prime Minister, KP Sharma Oli, resigned on September 9. - The Conversation lists historical U.S. regime-change operations but does not address the four named 2022-2025 cases. - en.wikipedia.org State Department encouraged the Pakistani government in a March 7, 2022, meeting to remove Imran Khan as prime minister over his neutrality on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to a classified Pakistani government document obtained by The Intercept. - ryangrim.substack.com (2023-08-09) PBS, Guardian, White House (no passage supplied). - PBS News (2025-01-20) The cycle began in Sri Lanka in 2022… Bangladesh in 2024… Nepal has joined the arc of crisis… Prime Minister Olis own exit. - TheCommuneMag (2025-09-09)
From reporting
Predictions and opinions in it (2)›
- Prediction: In the coming few weeks or months the situation in India can turn violent.
- Prediction: What Comes Next? Violent? (next few weeks / months)
How it's framed (5)›
Sources (5)›
The cycle began in Sri Lanka in 2022… Bangladesh in 2024… Nepal has joined the arc of crisis… Prime Minister Olis own exit
A government ban on 26 social media apps… triggered widespread protests… Prime Minister, KP Sharma Oli, resigned on September 9
State Department encouraged the Pakistani government in a March 7, 2022, meeting to remove Imran Khan as prime minister over his neutrality on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to a classified Pakistani government document obtained by The Intercept.
PBS, Guardian, White House (no passage supplied)
lists historical U.S. regime-change operations but does not address the four named 2022-2025 cases
Notes on this check (1)›
- Some spoken passages were excluded because their transcription was uncertain; those assertions were not checked.
Checked against 5 sources · 18 Oct 2026
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