The Three Types of US 'Regime Change'

More recently, in 1983 the U.S. military invaded Grenada to overthrow a Marxist president; in 1989 the U.S. invaded Panama to overthrow former C.I.A. asset Manuela Noriega.

In non-military interventions, the U.S. does not create regime change out of whole cloth: it works with pre-existing dissent, whether in the population or in the military or another elite group.

In other words, in regime change that doesn't involve invasion and occupation, it is not a question of either U.S. involvement or genuine dissent.

As CN founder Robert Parry explained in an 2015 article republished today on Consortium News, the C.I.A. had a direct hand in the establishment of the NED, even in the writing of the Congressional legislation that authorized the U.S. Agency for International Development to fund it with U.S. government money.

Installing a government hostile to Russia and China, which both border Kazakhstan, would be advantageous to the U.S. It could disrupt China's Silk Roads initiative through the country and the U.S. could put a military base in Kazakhstan.

Normally in regime change operations, the U.S. has a leader in exile ready to be installed.

Even in an "Age of Overt Action" a smoking gun is needed, usually arriving with the declassification of documents that has proved the history of U.S. regime change.

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/01/20/the-three-types-of-us-regime-change/