The US is known for causing violent and disastrous regime changes throughout history. It has done so in Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, and in African, Asian, and Latin American countries.
There is really no place on earth where the US has not tried to meddle and cause trouble.
But these are recent regime changes, and they all stem from the first regime change that started them all: the American Revolution of 1776.
And if we compare it to US-orchestrated regime changes that came later, the methods bear an uncanny resemblance to the mother of all regime changes of 1776.
In each case, a group of local provocateurs and elites driven by their own self-interests, and supported and directed by the US or some US government-linked NGO, start causing acts of unrest against current rulers.
It makes no difference whether the current rulers were democratically elected or not.
The regime-changers fund various choreographed propaganda stunts (Boston Tea Party, burning of tax stamps) and spread all sorts of lies and disinformation denouncing the current rulers, and calling for some sort of change.
They appoint themselves as leaders, and pass all sorts of acts and declarations.
They try to get as many unwitting fools as possible on their side by promising them all sorts of benefits, like freedom, land, etc. if they join the cause.
Once enough of the 'revolutionaries' have been corralled, they are given weapons and told to storm the barricades and die for the ‘cause of freedom.’
But the elites and their foreign handlers stay in the background while the rabble bleed for their ‘revolution.’
Once the regime change succeeds, the elites come forward and take over. They quickly lock up whoever is left of the old regime, or exile them. They promptly pass laws, regulations, and 'new constitutions' to make sure that no opposition exists to challenge them.
The battered rabble disbands, and is left to fend for itself. Taxes are raised, un-payable loans from foreign banks received, and the resources of the country are plundered and sold for cheap to foreign investors at the direction of the foreign backers.
The current US attempts to overthrow the legally-elected government of Venezuela bear a scary resemblance to the first US regime change of 1776.
In both cases, we have an elite that has self-appointed itself in charge, without any elections or popular consensus whatsoever.
In both cases, the so-called revolutionaries had scant support, and relied on most people to just ambivalently roll-over for them, and buy their propaganda and disinformation.
We have these self-appointed elites forming their own parallel governing bodies, in opposition to the current government. In 1776 there was the Continental Congress, and today in Venezuela we have the National Assembly.
In both cases, both regime change movements tried to recruit volunteers to fight the current rulers. In 1776 there was the continental army, and in Venezuela there are army dissidents and other paid mercenaries.
In both cases, foreign military assistance is/was given. In 1776, the revolutionaries were aided by France, Prussia and other European powers. In Venezuela today, the regime changers are aided by the US, EU, and some L. American countries.
And just like with the original US regime change of 1776, the results have been the same elsewhere.
Repression and killing of dissidents, the marginalization of the poorer sections of society, the exploitation of the nations’ resources by the elites for profit, or never-ending mass violence and chaos.
The fact is that these US-sponsored regime changes and coups have resulted in misery and loss of many lives for all countries where they were attempted. They became worse off, and have all lost a large piece of their freedom and sovereignty.
They have been forced to give up their wealth to foreign interests, and have been dragged into hapless, unnecessary and expensive economic and military alliances for no good reason-if not into some internal, eternally brewing civil war or insurgency (Ukraine, Libya, former Yugoslavia), or some brutal foreign military occupation (Iraq).
But how could the results of these fake US-led coups and regime changes not be disastrous? After all, look at the vile, malevolent, corrupt and failing US monstrosity that was created by the first regime change in 1776 that spawned all the others.
After all, nothing good can be built on rotten foundations.
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