To name a few examples, there were Iraq, Libya, Iran, Afghanistan; and to look outside West Asia, there were Chile, Congo, Guatemala, South Vietnam, Brazil, Ethiopia, Yemen, Cambodia, Laos, Tibet.
One interesting aspect of the American foreign policy over the past 60-70 years is that they try to solve the problems this decade that they created last decade. It is almost as if the think tankers who ultimately make up the policies have a well established marketing & sales plan that will keep them in business. After all there is a whole set of opportunities - consulting both national and international, lobbying, financing, arms sales etc. Even if one accepts that war mongering, expansionism and demonizing the other is an essential part of the American DNA it still won't explain why US engages in regime change when not even a single one has gone in its favor long term.
With regards to India - surely all the smart people in Indian policy making circle understand this - the biggest battle India has is digital sovereignty and cultural sovereignty. Whatever the motivation of CCP was/is - they kept Google, Twitter, Facebook and likes out. In India we had the sad spectacle of Ravishankar Prasad begging Twitter and then doing nothing about it. India seems to have lost the language battle - if i poll 10 teenagers say in b'lore or even in a place like Kannur/Trivandrum, it would be quite likely that they will not be able to name 10 authors either in Kannada or Malayalam.
All regime change operations in India (or any where else) require active local collaborators - lack of digital sovereignty and erosion of culture makes it really easy to develop local collaborators. 1000 years of occupation couldn't kill our languages - but 75 years of independence has managed to get the job almost done.
One interesting aspect of the American foreign policy over the past 60-70 years is that they try to solve the problems this decade that they created last decade. It is almost as if the think tankers who ultimately make up the policies have a well established marketing & sales plan that will keep them in business. After all there is a whole set of opportunities - consulting both national and international, lobbying, financing, arms sales etc. Even if one accepts that war mongering, expansionism and demonizing the other is an essential part of the American DNA it still won't explain why US engages in regime change when not even a single one has gone in its favor long term.
With regards to India - surely all the smart people in Indian policy making circle understand this - the biggest battle India has is digital sovereignty and cultural sovereignty. Whatever the motivation of CCP was/is - they kept Google, Twitter, Facebook and likes out. In India we had the sad spectacle of Ravishankar Prasad begging Twitter and then doing nothing about it. India seems to have lost the language battle - if i poll 10 teenagers say in b'lore or even in a place like Kannur/Trivandrum, it would be quite likely that they will not be able to name 10 authors either in Kannada or Malayalam.
All regime change operations in India (or any where else) require active local collaborators - lack of digital sovereignty and erosion of culture makes it really easy to develop local collaborators. 1000 years of occupation couldn't kill our languages - but 75 years of independence has managed to get the job almost done.