President Biden’s denial that the US government is committed to regime-change in Russia is a lie. Ever since its inception, the core mission of the US national-security establishment, specifically the Pentagon and the CIA, has been regime change. The goal has always been to oust from power political leaders who operate independently of the Pentagon and the CIA and replace them with local stooges who obey the orders of the US national-security establishment, oftentimes on payment of large sums of cash in the form of “foreign aid.” In fact, Russia, which was the principal member of the Soviet Union, was used as the principal justification for many of the early regime-change operations. In 1953, for example, the CIA regime-changed the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, because the CIA perceived that he was leaning toward Russia and the rest of the Soviet Union. That was considered verboten by US officials. The CIA engineered a coup that succeeded in ousting Mosaddegh from power and replacing him with the unelected Shah of Iran, one of the most brutal US-supported tyrants in the world. The following year, the CIA regime-changed the democratically elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz, because …read more
Source:: Ron Paul Institute
