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Why don’t they just get the CIA to install a new leader?
It’s not like they haven’t done that before.
Israel is a long ways away from the Caribbean and central America, where the CIA had the most success with that stuff, thanks to the Monroe doctrine.
I don’t think it’s that easy to get what you want in the Middle East.
Not the US but the UK did it in Iran.
To successfully do that, it takes a couple years of groundwork. And it’s harder in a parliamentary system, because you don’t really pick a leader, you pick parties, and the party picks a leader from their own members.
Not that the CIA would want to. I’d bet they share a lot of intelligence about common adversaries.
That’s a road I’d very much rather we left in the rear view mirror, if I’m honest.
Remember when Trump tried a coup in Venezuela and they clearly dusted off a 1980’s coup plan in the smartphone era? They kept trying to stage things for TV cameras and random people were posting videos of them on social media like, “What are these guys filming?” And then they just pretended it worked and were like, “Juan Guaidó is the president now.” as if you could just pretend a coup worked.
That was some of the least competent shit I’ve ever seen. We shouldn’t be involved in coups at all so it was morally repugnant but on top of that, everyone involved in the planning and execution of the coup attempt should be required to wear clown makeup and big floppy clown shoes for the rest of their lives.
Yeah it was pretty insane and dismaying and absurd to watch that episode unfold…
it needs to be worse than in jeopardy.
it needs to be completely nonviable.
it needs to be fucking extinct.
It’s not in jeopardy because he’s committing genocide however.
So even if he goes, they won’t stop.
