>>1404447>America no longer needs to coup a nation à la Pinochet or 30 September, it simply needs to put "an opposition figure," arm it with words, and "inspire" people to fight against "the axis of evil" (while in reality encouraging the government to adopt neoliberal economics and fail like the United States)I mean the US has always used this as a strategy. Couping is a high level strategy that comes after other strategies don't work. The US has a series of things they try as they escalate with a nation they want to change. They move imperceptibly from soft coup to hard coup.
They don't always do things in this exact order, and often mix multiple strategies at once, but this is the "usual" escalation:
1. Have talks (encourage them to adopt your desired policies, against their own interests)
>good example of this would be the attempt to get the Soviets to privatize their economy and put themselves in greater debt to the USA under the Marshall Plan before the cold war "began"2. Denounce (when they fail to take your "suggestions")
>how dare the hostile soviet union and her COMECON satellites not allow us to privatize them. 3. Slander, Atrocity propaganda (especially if they look good on the world stage compared to you)
>muh red fascism>muh red imperialism>muh authoritarianism>saddam is throwing babies out of incubators>gaddafi is giving his troops viagra and telling them to rape>xi is killing uyghurs in Xinjiang4. Sanction, Embargo, IMF loans, etc. (to force the policies from step one)
>Cuba5. Proxy war (if step 4 fails)
>Ukraine-Russia War6. Coup/Color "Revolution" (if step 5 fails)
>Orange Revolution, Euromaidan7. Full scale invasion and occupation (if step 6 fails)
>Vietnam>Iraq War