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A YouTube provocateur, Kaiser has talked about a much more radical attack on government, akin to President Javier Milei’s in neighboring Argentina, and a bigger role for the armed forces.

Fuentes famously spent years harassing Kirk and his Turning Point staff at similar college campus events before Kirk banned the provocateur.

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So do Internet provocateurs, represented here by Ann Coulter, pretty much playing herself and proving that it isn’t an act.

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Avtandil Imnadze, 85, who was a political prisoner in the Soviet Union, said "the attempt to storm the presidential palace was the work of provocateurs."

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In the event of any violence, whether from protesters or agent provocateurs, the president will doubtless seize on it to expand his power.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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