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You usually cannot "topple" a rogue regime, unlike a civil government. Dictators almost always have secret police, and domestic espionage agencies in every cor
by baybal2 6y ago
You usually cannot "topple" a rogue regime, unlike a civil government.
Dictators almost always have secret police, and domestic espionage agencies in every corner.
This is why I do not subscribe to notion that Western spies are trying to stage revolutions in repressive regimes for a simple reason that they can not.
- pietrovismara 6y agoOh but they did. Time and time again. Given the pattern there's no reason to think western powers are not meddling with foreign affairs today.
- pydry 6y agoThey failed in Venezuela recently but that didn't stop them from trying. There was a democratic Senator who ascribed the failure to Trump's incompetence. Most of Latin America had had a US backed coup at some point in its history. Many very successful. Pinochet, etc.
- baybal2 6y agoAnd this is a very good example of what I said. US only ever managed to use staged coups to unseat civil governments, and failed miserably with tougher targets like real totalitarian regimes. The only notable exception I think was Noriega, who was a joke of a dictator, and possibly even put in power with American help in the first place.
- CountSessine 6y agoExcept that the spooks failed even when it came to unseating Noriega because they had to call in the military to stage an invasion. The only two cases that I’m aware of where the US clandestinely toppled a foreign government were Chile and Iran - and apparently even the Iranian operation was mostly driven by the British secret service. And by all accounts, Chile was more of a nudge than a push.