It is more complicated than that. I was reading recently about how the Shah of Iran was ended and how the US intentionally helped that happen while they were a

It is more complicated than that. I was reading recently about how the Shah of Iran was ended and how the US intentionally helped that happen while they were allies. I dug into that more. Shah of Iran didn't have any imperial ambitions but the west didn't support him because of geopolitics reasons. > The Shah of Iran had promoted secular rule and thus he believed that he would be embraced by the west. He also believed that his transformation of Iran from a near Middle Ages nation to a modern nation would be appreciated by the world at large. But, instead, he had gone too far too fast for Western interests. https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-the-USA-help-the-Shah-of-Iran https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-the-USA-help-the-Shah-of-Ira... Same story but a different reason how British and Roosevelt did influence on Mosaddegh's overthrow! While Mosaddegh was doing everything that we would praise by today's standards and our modern values: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh When you read two stories you just realize how geopolitics reasons can be unfair sometimes. Many countries are destabilized because of regimes changes for sake of geopolitics reasons. And it is really hard to say if there is any positive outcome for anyone in it.