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> Isn’t it pretty common policy for the US et al to promote pro democracy protests and politicians in other countries?

No, the US have supported and promoted dozens of coups and dictators. The phrase you're looking for is not "pro democracy", it's "aligned with the US interests".

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These kinds of criticisms can ring rather shallow and generic without examples. So here's an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

It's still pretty shallow and generic if the cited example occurred when my parents were still small children.

How, exactly? One day your children could say the same of political atrocities committed in your youth. Governments outlast people.

The infrastructure and incentives which drive it have not changed. America was founded and bred on colonialism and foreign dictatorships which enable cheap cost of living at the expense of hellish working conditions in other countries.

If you're going to claim that something is common practice, you should be able to do better than a 65-year-old example. There are certainly many more recent examples of American foreign policy screwups - some of which were vastly more destructive than Iran - but I'm not aware of any during my lifetime that involved overthrowing a democratically elected government.

By this logic, governments would never be held accountable for their actions if they simply waited to address them 65 years after the fact.

Another examples are dictatorial coups in Latin America supported by USA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...

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