'...causes the host state to lose any and all viability (governance, control, policing capability) whereby it quickly dies and is transformed into something entirely different... [color revolutions] have no front lines, are primarily waged in urban areas, and utilize social media as viral replicators [so as] to properly direct the infection into the nation's vital organs. [T]he overriding strategy is to manipulate and control the state in an attempt to cause paralysis and ultimately its political death.'
I expect by now those with a more perceptive view of recent U.S. 'hugger-muggery' in its international relations and who don't rely on the MSM for their insight into geopolitical affairs will be nodding their heads knowingly, as the outcomes, if not the techniques and methods used, will have become a more familiar refrain since 'T-Square'.
But for those not so informed, regime 'reset' (to use a word much in vogue around the Beltway) by Washington has a long, sorry-ass, sub-rosa history as the indispensable foreign policy tool, almost always righteously premised on national security, national interest or humanitarian grounds and invariably paired with justifications based on the defence and promotion of liberty, democracy, freedom and the rule of law.
In the post-WW2 era, this "history" goes back at least as far as far as 1953 when the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in cahoots with Britain's MI6, infamously engineered the removal of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohamed Mossadegh in Iran and replaced him with the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. And whilst it took around 60 years for the 'Company' to 'fess up to its involvement in the Iran coup, this was considerably longer than it took for the blowback to arrive.
As history records, as another in a long conga-line of U.S. client tyrants, the imperious, klepto-brutocrat 'Peacock Potentate' then went on to divinely (mis)rule his country with an iron-fist until his own belated, long-awaited overthrow in the Iranian Revolution of 1979, itself surely one of the most pivotal, nay portentous geopolitical events of that year. It was quite possibly also one of the best exemplars in the history of tyranny and despotism of moral causation eventually prevailing -- or simply, 'what goes round, comes around' - even if for the hapless Iranians 'karma' took its sweet time in arriving.
It's fair to say then this one coup alone -- as 'successful' at the time as it was clandestine -- had profound, far-reaching, geopolitical, economic and national security consequences for the U.S. and the West in general, and indeed for the rest of the world. The present imbroglio over the agreement reached with Tehran on its mythical nuclear weapons program along with the interminable Sturm und Drang that preceded it -- and which is unlikely to abate anytime soon -- is in many respects a reflection of that.
Moreover, it is worth noting herein those folks still baffled by whatever residual distrust, bitterness and enmity harbored by many Iranians towards Uncle Sam and all that he purportedly stands for need look no further beyond a cursory examination of the execrable Shah's quarter century rule. Along with the plethora of Iran-bashers stateside and elsewhere currently falling over themselves as they crawl out the political woodwork, a good place for all these folks to start would be to familiarize themselves with the exploits of his CIA via Mossad trained secret police the SAVAK, whose impressively sadistic torture manuals set something of a pioneering benchmark even for their former mentors in the vicious black arts of brutal oppression and 'enhanced interrogation techniques', along with political terror and plain, old fashioned, garden variety murder and mayhem.
In fact so successful then was this regime 'recalibration' initiative in Iran that the following year a similarly inspired scheme was concocted and implemented for Guatemala's leader Jacobo Arbenz with a not dissimilar result, by which time the now well-tried formula had become the gift that, at least for the regime 'Change Rangers' past and present, just keeps on giving. To put that another way, if the old adage is true about all problems looking like nails when the only tool in one's repair kit is a hammer, then we can probably equate those nations reluctant to toe the Washington line to the "nails" with the color revolution now being analogous to the "hammer".
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