Agreed, the whole point of regime change is that destroying a regime is incredibly costly, but a regime change has the possibility to be a net positive through tribute and fighting for your interests.
Now that you mentioned it, for some reason this triggered some ancient memory in the fossilized brain of mine.
It was the CIA manual.
They had different types of coups, if we can believe that or not.
Okay, I do not remember all of them, but if we guess, this is what are the different types of coups. A coup is the archaic term from regime change, ahahahahaha! I just realized that now! Haha!
- the military takes over usually by violence
- foreign force takes over often violently
- popular uprising that topples the government
- a palace coup where leadership change internally without blood
Last few decades we saw all of the above, probably more other categories but I do not remember. Military takes over that is Thailand about every five year. A foreign force topples the government is the United States in the Middle East, too many examples to list. The popular uprising is interesting because it does not happen often, but that was how Colonel Ghadaffi came to power, and how Marcos Sr was ousted and they found all those shoes in the palace. The palace coup is kind of rare and I cannot think of one right now.
The US plan, was a popular uprising coup, with those protests earlier a couple months ago in Iran. Then this current war started, with decapitation strikes, which is a coup violently enforced, but that coup did not coup itself, so this coup attempt failed. Now they push out the Shah of Iran's son, like a palace coup is in the works, that is nuts.
The point is, there are different types of coups in the CIA manual, this is how they think of it, yet they could not make up their minds on which type of coup they want to execute. In the end, they cannot execute any of the above!
Hahahahaha! They have no solid plan at all, and are just groping around in the dark.
