[seanmcdirmid]

> By destabilizing and ousting democratically elected leaders around the world and replacing them with our puppets

El Saud was put in place as rulers of Saudi Arabia by the British, not the Americans.

[pkphilip]

US has done "regime change" in many countries replacing elected officials with warlords/monarchs/dictators etc.

Consider Mossadegh in Iran - an elected, secular politician who was replaced to put Shah - a monarch, in power:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh

Then, of course, all across Latin America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

[seanmcdirmid]

Yes, but the linked story was about Saudi Arabia, not Iran or Latin America.

[pkphilip]

I was replying broadly on the issue of regime change

[bigbillheck]

But across the gulf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état