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What an Iranian regime change could mean for the world
MSNBC· 2026-03-01 18:32
It's important to think this through. For more than two centuries, the United States has at times tried to remove foreign governments and replace them with something else. Sometimes overtly, sometimes through invasion, sometimes covertly through intelligence operations, sometimes through economic pressure and political engineering.Let's look at how that's worked out. Let's begin with a distinction. There is tactical success and there is strategic success.Tactical success means the target government falls. S ...