You mean like the US regime changes in Germany and Japan 1945? Those ones were really bad for the local population!
A coup is... not even remotely the same thing. How many coups do you know of that helped the local population?
Then you will say things like: but it was 80 years ago!!
But my larger point is that I don’t trust the current US administration to engage in regime change in a beneficial way as perhaps the US admin in 1945 did. You’re right that those examples and some others are good ones. But I believe the odds are that this situation would be one of the worse ones.
Do I support the Iranian regime? Hell no! I just also don’t think the US invading is a solution that would bring long term peace and prosperity.
It is always the same story: Look how poorly the regime manages the country!
Never said: The country is under such sanctions/blockade that any western country would have already folded long ago.
How do you know that? Is it just your general assumption "Westerners weak, must fold, third-worlders stronk, they endure"?
Under what conditions would you say that sanctions are OK? Or are they never? In that case, there still might be white minority rule in Rhodesia or South Africa.