Every goverment is a threat in some way and rooting for Ukraine to bleed Russian troops is in no way a bad thing especially when win or lose they will never be a threat to the United States like the Russians are! Thus realpolitik makes Ukraine the logical regime to prop up.
Batista in Cuba.
The Shah in Iran.
The South Vietnamese junta that assassinated Ngo Dinh Diem and later led that country to ruin and getting pwned by the North.
Saddam in Iraq.
The religious, nuclear armed fanatics in Pakistan and their proxies in Afghanistan.
China.
Bunch of coups and juntas in Latin America, with the only decent leader alligned closer to the west that came out of this being Pinochet.However Pinochet IIRC came to prominence and took power on his own, so any aid you gave him was IMHO immaterial.
Even South Korea was a dictatorial shitshow for a long while before capitalism kicked in.
Those were all your proxies or allies against the USSR, they either turned on you and forced you to go into costly wars or turned out to be too big to control or an actual downgrade.
Your only successful regime change and propping up operations have been those in Japan and Korea, IMHO, and in both cases there were a number of internal and external factors aiding you.
Simply put, the Blob sucks at picking leaders or running with a non-schizophrenic strategy.
For example, 9/11 IMHO never would have happened if you had followed the advice of some of your people on the ground and backed the likes Ahmad Shah Massoud to counter the Arab and Pakistani-backed loonietoons that took Iraq.
You're really one to talk.
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