KASICH: When you talk about regime change, Wolf, it means regime change.
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Remember, the first rule of regime change is you don't talk about regime change.
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When they say getting rid of, regime change in their own words, how does regime change happen?
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The clear goal now is regime change, and regime change by either peaceful or at least much less lethal means.
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It's an accident of history that we've hit a demand-side regime change and a supply-side regime change at the same time.
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His implicit strategic formula was regime change in Taiwan to a communist dictatorship, and then regime change in China to a more moderate, tolerant rule.
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Regime change in Iraq created the conditions that permitted the rise of the Islamic State; regime change in Libya gave ISIS a failed state to occupy.
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The secretary is also widely believed to desire regime change in Iran, though he has said he just wants to see the regime change its behavior.
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As much as Iran hardliners might pin their hopes of regime change on Trump, he does not appear to be a regime-change-at-any-cost president.
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Iraq gave them both: That October, seizing on PNAC's call for regime change, congressional Republicans passed the Iraq Liberation Act, which stated that regime change was US policy.
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The U.S. can encourage this regime change, with minimal risk of war, using strategies similar to those President Ronald Reagan used to bring about regime change in the Soviet Union.
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Retired Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield Jr. closed the briefing with a defense of regime change from within, new sanctions on Iran, and growing capabilities of the NCRI to bring about regime change from within.
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"Regime change may not be the right term," he said.
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Some individuals and groups are actively hoping for regime change.
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Only a war to bring about regime change would suffice.
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Mr Bolton, as a private citizen, called for regime change.
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I'm not convinced that they've actually moved to regime change.
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The penalties announced this week are aimed at regime change.
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For its people, the sooner regime change comes, the better.
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To attempt regime change in Iran would be costlier still.
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Absent a coup, regime change is unlikely in the North.
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Freedom and democracy can only be secured through regime change.
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Both have more to gain from regime change than most.
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"Our goal should be regime change in Iran," he stated.
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But Ledeen's zeal for regime change in Iran remained undiminished.
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In that sense, what the uprising wants is regime change.
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The White House has repeatedly denied pursuing a regime change.
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But North Korea doesn't need nukes to prevent regime change.
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More recently, he's mused about regime change in North Korea.
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The decision to leave the European Union marks a regime change.
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Regime change is something we need to be very careful about.
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It means a clear departure from past practice: a regime change.
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John Bolton, America's national security adviser, has long advocated regime change.
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"We do not seek regime change in North Korea," Tillerson said.
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These two men are longtime supporters of regime change in Iran.
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Regime change The Trump administration has sent mixed messages on this.
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In the meantime, you get to endure yet another regime change.
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Where exactly is the Trump administration on regime change in Syria?
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The U.S. record with regime change is, of course, decidedly mixed.
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Bolton has long advocated regime change and military action against Iran.
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These are the tenets of the Obama doctrine for regime change.
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Russia, he believes, is next on America's "regime change" hit list.
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And Russia doesn't believe revolutions or regime change can bring stability.
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Second, externally imposed regime change usually leads to disastrous unintended consequences.
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However, if genuine reform occurs, the likelihood of regime change increases.
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Furthermore, they are concerned about US efforts to support regime change.
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Both were on the receiving end of U.S.-led regime change.
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Uribe has long backed the U.S. regime-change effort against Venezuela.
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The CIA has admitted its role in the forced regime change.
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Rather than preach regime change, the campaigns reflect citizens' everyday concerns.
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SANDERS: — American involvement in regime change, you see that quite often.
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Q: So the U.S. doesn't look for regime change in Iran?
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Why is Trump gambling that Iran is ripe for regime change?
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I didn't want to be a part of another regime change.
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Imposing regime change based on the prospect of Iranian economic collapse?
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Unsurprisingly, Iran's Supreme Leader is not an advocate of regime change.
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Many other principals in his administration are set on regime change.
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End the wasteful regime change wars and bring our troops home.
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Will there be even more regime change in the Middle East?
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"Essentially, he admitted their policy is regime change," Mr. Morrell said.
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The other option — regime change — was weakened by the JCPOA's concessions.
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Sanctions are seen as a key tool to foment regime change.
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I mean, you could not find more unrepentant advocates of regime change.
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"regime change," without the years-long commitment the latter term implies. But
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"regime change" is what the Republican electorate hungers for at this juncture.
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A month ago, Bush told CBS News that regime change, wherever the
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Regime change alone will not fix the country's economic woes, she warned.
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"Let me be clear: We are not seeking regime change," Pompeo added.
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If they withdraw support from his beleaguered regime, change will come soon.
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All three have at some point advocated for regime change in Iran.
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Best possible, in their view, the unrest will lead to regime change.
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What is an endless war if it not a regime change war?
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MAY: Look, they cry no salty ears for regime change to happen.
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Haley's been saying that regime change in Syria is a top priority.
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As Iraq and Libya demonstrated, regime change can be messy and risky.
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We&aposre going to bring about regime change without firing a shot.
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Trump announced in Wisconsin that the era of regime change is over.
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However, prominent former officials have again begun to advocate Iranian regime change.
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" Pompeo replied, "We're careful not to use the language of regime change.
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"We're not looking for regime change," Trump said during a Cabinet meeting.
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His stated goal for regime change in Iran has incensed Iranian officials.
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Embargoes rarely produce regime change of the sort Trump seeks in Venezuela.
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From Putin's perspective, democracy promotion is just a cover for regime change.
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But activists indicated they won't be placated by a simple regime change.
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The push for regime change in Venezuela has run into similar headwinds.
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News Analysis WASHINGTON — Nobody said regime change was going to be easy.
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Academic exchange, the video explained, was a Trojan horse for regime change.
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Is the American goal an enfeebled, compliant Iranian state or regime change?
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Squeezing the citizens of a country to affect regime change is absurd.
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His diplomatic deal assumed regime change from within was not viable, e.g.
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One of her themes was a need for regime change from within.
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Both Mexico and Colombia issued statements denying the regime-change accusations Monday.
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Regime change absent a massive invasion force is a think tank fantasy.
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Barcelona has seen coaches and executives leave in purges following regime change.
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The United States' track record of fomenting regime change is very poor.
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"We want to see a regime change in Iran," Mr. Giuliani said.
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Trump says he doesn't want regime change for Iran: Trump later on Tuesday reiterated that he is not seeking regime change in Iran after the country's foreign minister suggested it may be open to negotiations over its missile program.
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The president hasn't publicly commented on the regime change question since the strikes.
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"I think the president wants the economic equivalent of regime change," Cramer said.
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Giuliani called for regime change in Iran before the crowd, as has Bolton.
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But the Americans were not averse to regime change when it suited them.
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Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, once was an advocate of regime change.
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I'm not quite the fan of regime change that I believe she is.
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Sanders, for his part, has more broadly targeted Clinton's views on regime change.
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Does he propose a full-scale invasion, occupation and regime change, Iraq-style?
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Go deeper: U.S. sanctions Venezuela's state oil company in push for regime change
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Recently they have fired up their rhetoric, calling for regime change in Qatar.
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Which country then, has the highest chance of seeing a sudden regime change?
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Johnson said regime change in Iran was not a policy Britain should pursue.
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It seems that Iranian regime change is priority number one for the Saudis.
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Is that really true or do they secretly, privately really want regime change?
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"We do not seek a regime change," Tillerson told reporters before his departure.
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Under Bush, Americans saw what Straussian ideas of regime change could do abroad.
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Another way to frame the divide is on the issue of regime change.
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Pyongyang views the nuclear deterrent as vital to prevent potential US regime change.
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This, to emphasize, is a different goal than regime change or changing borders.
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"I also think regime change in Syria is a bad idea," Paul continued.
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Consider the United States' more recent regime change efforts in Iraq and Libya.
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For its government by openly making claims including this illusion about regime change.
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The call for regime change in Egypt, also successful, was even more astounding.
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Others, like John Bolton, call for regime change in assertive powers like Iran.
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The embargo's objective was to contain the Castro government and achieve regime change.
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In another change, state news agency APS said protesters had demanded "regime change".
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Calling for regime change in Syria was seen as a cost-free option.
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Our current strategy of nation-building and regime change is a proven failure.
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Eventually, the administration convinces itself that regime change is the only viable option.
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Nuclear weapons, in other words, would be the ultimate deterrent against regime change.
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Mr. Bolton, as a private citizen, long called for regime change in Tehran.
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He says he does not want war and is not after regime change.
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Does Trump want regime change in Iran or just a change of behavior?
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This is one reason economic sanctions are usually ineffective in inducing regime change.
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And we've tried no intervention at all but demanding regime change — in Syria.
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It was Pompeo, after all, who spoke publicly about regime change in Pyongyang.
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"I don't think our policy ought to be for regime change," Paul said.
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A few days ago, administration officials said regime change was not a priority.
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Iraq-style regime change seems less likely than an ongoing tit-for-tat.
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Think of the regime-change elections in 28503, 22019, 1860, 1932 and 1980.
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"I will end these regime-change wars," she said at the town hall.
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Clinton responded by saying Sanders had been in favor of the regime change.
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"I don't think the solution is regime change," he told CNN after prayers.
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Instead, they see a regime change policy at the expense of Russia's sovereignty.
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" Asked if that means regime change, Netanyahu said, "I don't rule anything out.
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Sen. Ben Cardin: Are you in favor of regime change in North Korea?
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In his new job he must champion democracy without directly calling for regime change.
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The former diplomat has openly called for regime change in Iran in the past.
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He did not consider himself a dissident and disliked the idea of regime change.
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Russia has repeatedly said it does not want to see regime change in Syria.
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Putin, who has long feared US-backed regime change efforts, faces reelection in March.
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Qatar "actively promoted regime change across the Arab world," while its neighbors did not.
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In April, Tillerson said regime change -- removing leader Kim Jong Un -- wasn't the goal.
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In July, CIA Chief Mike Pompeo said regime change could be a possible approach.
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So I think, yeah, regime change is easy, getting rid of dictators is easy.
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Regime change In 2011, Trump urged U.S. intervention to help Libyans topple Moammar Gadhafi.
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Many confuse Gabbard's opposition to the recent bombing or regime change as supporting Assad.
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The coup became a blueprint for other regime change efforts during the Cold War.
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At the moment, Kim is terrified of a U.S. invasion or regime-change attack.
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Clinton wants to continue a muddled mix of intervention, regime change and bombing campaigns.
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MASON, Ohio — On a day of possible regime change, only smaller breakthroughs were achieved.
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But John Bolton, the National Security Advisor, has repeatedly advocated regime change in Iran.
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"Just to be clear, regime change in Iran is not American policy," he said.
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Regime change means no talks and no resurrection of the July 2015 nuclear deal.
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Bolton's relentless advocacy of regime change contradicts the isolationism Trump touted during the campaign.
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Conducting an Iraq-style invasion and "regime change", however, is not a reasonable prospect.
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With Gimelstob out, Djokovic looks more isolated in his attempt to drive regime change.
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First, he asserted, the Trump administration is not seeking regime change in the North.
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That led to the demonstrations, in which protesters called for regime change and revolution.
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Mr. Trump disavowed regime change in Iran, a long-held goal of Mr. Bolton's.
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Belief in administration that actively pushing for regime change is a good idea.3.
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During one of those speeches last year, Giuliani called for regime change in Iran.
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They should reject regime change as a policy objective in both word and deed.
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Jim Jones, echoed the remarks of others, in focusing on regime change from within.
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Bolton had previously advocated for regime change in Iran before he joined the Trump administration.
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His rejection of her fondness for regime change comes only after he offers up praise.
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Congressional hawks who preferred regime change to diplomacy tried to scuttle the international nuclear agreement.
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Bolton backed the Iraq War and supports regime change through military action in certain cases.
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This time Ethiopians are calling just as fiercely for regime change, and not just reform.
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And I disagree with Saudis who are calling for regime change and stuff like that.
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And this is a highly inflammatory regime change with a nuclear armed power next door.
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Such regime change originally met strong resistance from farmers and other big users in Australia.
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But, when I say regime change, I don't have to talk exactly what that means.
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This looks, sounds and smells like support for regime change in a lot of ways.
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The outgoing CIA boss is another advocate of regime change in Iran and North Korea.
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The U.S. has gone all-in on regime change in Venezuela and wants results — fast.
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The past 150 years have been witness to military incursions, assassinations, regime change, coups, etc.
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Specifically, they urged military strikes against President Bashar al Assad's government to force regime change.
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Haley seemed to be quite clearly announcing that regime change was a priority in Syria.
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Regime change is not our business, and I would hope she has learned this lesson.
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Under Trump, we might see the same urge for regime change applied to America itself.
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He&aposs done it because he knows that&aposs the ultimate deterrent for regime change.
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We are not going to have a new agreement, we are going to regime change.
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Sanders accused Secretary Hillary Clinton of having supported regime change, a policy he harshly criticized.
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The administration continues to refute suggestions that a significant U.S. policy goal is regime change.
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Today, President Maduro insists on blocking Venezuelans seeking peaceful regime change through a recall referendum.
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Signs of the regime change America had long hoped to see are on the horizon.
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Is that the kind of regime change the Trump administration has in mind for Iran?
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"And the United States of America, historically, does not do regime change very well." pic.twitter.
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Rather, the administration is singularly pursuing regime change through the misapplication of the sanctions tool.
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Finally, Trump could stick to his guns on Iraq and eschew future regime-change efforts.
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Rouhani also reiterated his position that the sanctions have been imposed to force regime change.
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No previous White House occupant has dared to hint at regime change for North Korea.
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Lachlan Murdoch noted that a studio regime change was put into motion in the quarter.
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North Korea: He clarified that he does not advocate for regime change in North Korea.
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Since the government has absolute control of the company a regime change could cause upheaval.
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R. Ghodsee's "Electing for Autocrats", Ghodsee reveals how U.S.-led regime change breeds future demagogues.
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He campaigned on ending nation-building, he can't get involved in regime change in Syria.
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Do not use our military to force regime change in Syria or any other country.
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The Trump administration wants a regime change in Iran — and India does not, he said.
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"The U.S. has no interest in regime change or accelerated reunification of Korea," they wrote.
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He did, however, vow not to engage in any way in regime change efforts abroad.
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But the risk is it's just a technological elite in the regime-change driving seat.
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"The only catalyst for regime change this year is a potential social explosion," it said.
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For this, the international community should make active efforts for regime change in the country.
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Otherwise, it risks being ignored or, infinitely worse from its perspective, targeted for regime change.
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In particular, Pompeo made waves last year for comments many inferred as supporting regime change.
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He makes no secret of his desire to stoke unrest in pursuit of "regime change".
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He has also said Clinton was too quick in pushing for regime change in Libya.
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He accused the United States of seeking to gather support for regime change in Venezuela.
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She has been an outspoken opponent of U.S. military intervention in conflicts surrounding regime change.
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He preached caution about regime change and urged that the focus be on disarming Saddam.
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Pompeo is known as a staunch Iran hawk who has expressed desires for regime change.
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" Cardin pressed Pompeo on the regime change issue and Pompeo responded, "You are misstating that.
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Graham said his legislation isn't aimed at regime change, although he'd like to see one.
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Ed Markey rebuked Haley's call for regime change, saying that would require a major military effort on the part of the US. "When the Trump administration uses the words regime change, they are talking about a military effort to remove Assad," Markey told Tapper.
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As she did in her debate appearances, Gabbard emphasized her military experience and unique foreign policy views, again vowing to end "long-standing regime-change wars," a position she has been criticized for given the US is not currently waging any regime-change wars.
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Dictators hedge against regime change by ensuring that the resulting power vacuum would be even worse.
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It has little incentive to compromise with a president it sees as bent on regime change.
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"Regime change, young fellows, does not take place in the streets," he declared — and was mocked.
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However, when Muammar Qaddafi offered to negotiate a settlement, the West forcefully insisted on regime change.
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Notably, Tillerson's plan for eventual regime change relies on several assumptions that are far from certain.
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What has not worked is military intervention, regime change, and grand schemes to reshape the region.
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Some of us think of the CIA we think of torture, assassination, and forced regime change.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the United States of seeking a pretext for regime change.
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The U.S. recognized that claim and has been encouraging support for regime change in the country.
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An abrupt but credible "regime change" in policy could realign popular expectations almost instantaneously, he reasoned.
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Bolton, whose is being floated as undersecretary of state, is pushing for regime change in Iran.
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They see him as a deal-maker who is uninterested in nation building or regime change.
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"Our current strategy of nation-building and regime change is a proven failure," Trump said then.
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We can elect a president who will lead us into more interventionist wars of regime change.
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Against this backdrop, the Iranian people have shown on many occasions that they want regime change.
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Fed rate cuts as part of standard risk management and once-in-a-generation regime change.
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This is a combo that could surprise investors and mark a major regime change, he said.
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This begins with setting aside U.S.-managed regime change as a plausible or beneficial policy goal.
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It would not lead to regime change nor to any other particular political outcome within Syria.
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"And the United States of America, historically, does not do regime change very well," he continued.
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Intervention will become invasion, followed by occupation and likely regime change and nation building as well.
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Trump also drew objections for warning that regime change in Syria would risk exacerbating chaos there.
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Protesters have demanded a regime change, but Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri has refused to resign.
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Regime change seemed exceedingly difficult, because there was no organized group remotely capable of taking over.
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This concern about possible regime change has plagued Iranian governments for years, particularly since the 2202s.
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Yet Trump accompanied this by saying he did not support "regime change" and doesn't want war.
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The White House, though sharply critical of Tehran, has not directly called for Iranian regime change.
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Can mutual equities be addressed while excising primal Iranian fears of U.S.-led regime change efforts?
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In other words, they're angling for regime change, despite publicly saying it is not their aim.
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The time may be right for President Trump to consider and pursue regime change in Iran.
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They're all trying to stake out some Goldilocks "regime change for those who want it" position.
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Given Bolton's past positions, he is likely to strengthen the administration's support for regime change policies.
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But this is not so in Tehran where regime change by the people is an option.
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In such cases, regime change was celebrated by the United States as the restoration of democracy.
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In Washington, regime change had suddenly and with little thought become a comfortably bipartisan policy position.
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Before re-entering government as Trump's national security adviser, Bolton openly advocated for regime change in Iran.
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President Obama opposed the destabilization that followed regime change in Iraq, but then repeated it in Libya.
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Khamenei said a recent promise by Trump not to seek regime change in Iran was "a lie".
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"Regime change in Iran is within reach as never before," leader Maryam Rajavi said at the event.
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"If there is regime change and cancellation of all agreements, the impact could be greater," he said.
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The legacy of removing Saddam from power has rightly kept us from supporting regime change in Syria.
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Pompeo is known as a staunch Iran hawk, for example, who has expressed desires for regime change.
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Many of those who support regime change believe that the Kim government is fundamentally untrustworthy or irrational.
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Her most distinctive policy is her opposition to American involvement in what she calls "regime change wars".
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"I'm looking at a really good Iran, really strong, we're not looking for regime change," he said.
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Since 2001, "regime change" has brought, on balance, more death, destruction and chaos than stability or prosperity.
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Al Jazeera, which amplified cries for regime change, both peaceful and not, faced the sheikhs' particular ire.
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You have said the United States should start examining a strategy of regime change in North Korea.
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"He can no longer hold the banner of fundamental regime change," says Denise Dresser, a political scientist.
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Both the United States and Turkey are in favor of regime change in the war-torn country.
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Since 221, "regime change" has brought, on balance, more death, destruction and chaos than stability or prosperity.
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" And he alluded to "geopolitical engineering," a reference to Russian concerns about US attempts at "regime change.
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Yet while regime change should not be undertaken lightly, candidates risk overlearning the lessons from these conflicts.
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But he is committed to not wasting precious lives and money on interventionist wars of regime change.
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Misinformation and civil disorder could lead to regime change with a client government of Moscow taking charge.
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The rapprochement with Russia means it is even more likely to ditch its support for regime change.
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In the 1980s, we still hoped for another regime change, a disruption of the theocracy's stifling rules.
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Today, there is little hope that such a regime change is Trump's goal or is even possible.
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And there is no reason to think U.S.-forced regime change would end better this time around.
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In one of his first tweets of the new year, Trump was openly rooting for regime change.
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"I have never advocated for regime change," Pompeo told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the hearing.
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And he reasons, with cause, that a nuclear arsenal is his best insurance against forcible regime change.
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" The U.S. official interviewed by Reuters reiterated the administration's stance that it is not seeking "regime change.
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If the Trump administration's goal is regime change in Iran, that goal has become harder to achieve.
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But the US goal is -- it appears -- ultimately regime change, and that may not be so easy.
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" The U.S. official interviewed by Reuters reiterated the administration's stance that it is not seeking "regime change.
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He also accused the United States and its partners of "proactive steps to encourage regime change overseas".
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Shouldn't it have predicted early on that regime change in Syria would result in an Islamist regime?
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He appears focused on regime change as the one sure way to resolve the North Korean problem.
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One prime example: Bolton's position on Iran, where has spoken out unequivocally in favor of regime change.
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The world's experience with regime change in Iraq should make clear why this is a terrible idea.
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And if Washington pursues regime change, as some officials seem to favor, the risks will be huge.
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And Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the U.S. was not seeking regime change in North Korea.
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Killing Soleimani, they effectively argue, will help draw a straight line to eventual regime change in Iran.
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Incoming Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has in the past advocated for regime change in North Korea.
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It is imperative for us to concentrate our capabilities on strategies for regime change in the country.
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"It's a regime change," said Diane Swonk, CEO of DS Economics, who has known Warsh for years.
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Bolton was a fierce Iran hawk and had previously advocated for regime change before joining the administration.
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This "maximum pressure" campaign seemed geared toward nothing less than regime change — a goal Trump has denied.
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President Trump and his senior officials insist they do not seek "regime change" in a military sense.
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Or, Washington could settle on a military strike of overwhelming power that is aimed towards regime change.
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" The resistance, however, only needs American political and perhaps economic support to effect "regime change from within.
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Kim Jong-un has refused — to him, nuclear weapons are the only insurance policy against regime change.
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Regime change could also mean regime collapse and a free-for-all to control the nuclear weapons.
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" "The draft submitted by the US delegation was written for regime change disguised as care for people.
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If they agree to stop funding regime change, they will get seven years to phase out slavery.
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Bolton wanted bombs to drop in service of regime change and the display of American unilateral power.
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As a private citizen, he later called for military strikes on Iran, as well as regime change.
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They waved Iranian flags and held aloft giant yellow balloons with "Regime Change" written in block letters.
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Scholars of comparative politics understand authoritarianism and regime change and the factors that contribute to state collapse.
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That obsession would, by the end of the decade, congeal into a policy, explicitly stated: regime change.
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"Since Venezuela needs a new government the decline in PSUV's approval rating brings regime change closer," he added.
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For Putin, Western efforts at regime change could only be countered by his own attacks on Western democracies.
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He hasn't gone so far as to call for regime change, but has walked up to the line.
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"For Beijing, the goal of sanctions is not regime change," Brookings's Paul Park and Katharine H.S. Moon write.
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SANDERS: That is very different than talking about specific action for regime change, which I did not support.
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If regime change comes, it could consist of a coup mounted by these dark and well-connected characters.
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Mr Trump said he is not seeking regime change in Iran—unlike his national-security adviser, John Bolton.
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I have put it on the table that I would leave to see regime change in North Korea.
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Regime change sounds easier than occupation; but it has not proved a very productive strategy in recent years.
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On April 215th Deutsche fired John Cryan, its chief executive, in the third regime change in seven years.
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BY PULLING out of the Iran nuclear deal, President Donald Trump is counting on renegotiation or regime change.
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The boycotting countries deny seeking regime change in Doha, and Sheikh Abdullah denied acting out of personal interest.
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Trump doesn't have any particular incentive to bomb North Korea or advocate for regime change in the country.
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He had long argued for doing whatever it would take to bring about regime change in North Korea.
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The Americans are pursuing their aim, which they describe as "constitutional regime change", through a four-pronged strategy.
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But then, just a day or two later, they launch a military strike and gesture toward regime change.
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They are going to use this to try to push the US into a full regime-change policy.
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Suggestions that the US could force a regime change in North Korea have also only further inflamed tensions.
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Regime change, it seemed, was no longer desirable for the US. Yet, within a few weeks, everything changed.
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Newton's ascension to greatness aside, the Panthers made it here on the backs of a massive regime change.
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Our collective national experience with a decade of reckless interventionism and myopic regime change tells a different story.
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In the new foreign policy, old enemies became hidden enemies and regime change became imperative to restoring liberty.
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Those opposed to Iraq/Libya/Syria regime change wars are called 'dicatator-lovers' or 'cozy' with evil regimes.
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Do you think Saudi Arabia is actively looking at ways to bring about regime change as we speak?
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But that doesn't guarantee Venezuelan regime change, a major foreign policy goal of the Trump administration, said Ramos.
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Bearing the Iraq example in mind, what would the different options for pursuing regime change in Iran cost?
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Kim Jong-un also likely understands that nuclear weapons may be his best bet for deterring regime change.
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Clearly, no American, whatever their political beliefs, should venture into North Korea until there is a regime change.
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The strike has raised questions about President Trump's broader Syria strategy and whether he will pursue regime change.
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She's opposed to "regime change wars," and wants to see the US get out of Syria and Afghanistan.
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Would WH Nat'l Security Adviser Bolton advocate for regime change in Iran following withdrawal from the nuclear deal?
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Still, the Iranian people have no alternative but to boycott the elections and call for genuine regime change.
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Strikes did not target Assad's broader war-making capability or seek to advance the goal of regime change.
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Those opposed to Iraq/Libya/Syria regime change wars are called "dicatator-lovers" or "cozy" with evil regimes.
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Later, as a private citizen, Mr. Bolton called for military strikes on Iran, as well as regime change.
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"They're talking about regime change, but we don't have the tools to bring it about," Mr. Haass said.
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Trying to force regime change on Iran right now could unleash disorder and refugees of massive proportions there.
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Washington has hoped to foment public uprisings leading to regime change; Tehran has sought compliance and regime durability.
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President Trump set a new bar for Iranian citizens in his Nowruz message on March 20: regime change.
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But his national security adviser, John R. Bolton, has advocated military strikes against Iran and regime change there.
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The armed forces' continued support for the dictator remains the opposition's most formidable obstacle for a regime change.
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He indicated he wanted to address the nuclear deal's timescale and said he did not want regime change.
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This is hardly a great deal from Bolton's global regime change perspective or even compared with the JCPOA.
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There is already ample evidence that regime change by force is not a viable or sustainable policy option.
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Bolton was among Washington's most prominent hawks on Iran, advocating at one point for regime change in Tehran.
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He also strongly hinted that the United States was considering ways to seek regime change in North Korea.
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At one point, Gabbard asked Warren to join her in calling for an end to regime-change wars.
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Such action should be combined with vigorous American support for Iran's opposition, aimed at regime change in Tehran.
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But regime change is the policy that dare not speak its name after disasters in Iraq and Libya.
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" Gabbard, a veteran, has campaigned on ending "regime change wars" and also talked about the spirit of "aloha.
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However, it's naïve to think regime change will be an immediate panacea that solves all that ails Venezuela.
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He has repeatedly warned of Pyongyang's growing nuclear ambitions, coming close to advocating for regime change in July.
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Any attempt at regime change in Iran could destabilize the volatile Middle East in even more unpredictable ways.
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It was one of Washington's most overt attempts in decades to carry out regime change in Latin America.
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"There is no sensible military option for the US in Venezuela in terms of regime change," retired Adm.
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"Bolton, in particular, has a track record of supporting violent regime change in Iran and taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from a military cult that supports violent regime change," Slavin said, referring to the People's Mujahedeen of Iran, or MEK, an opposition group whose mission is to overthrow the regime.
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That's critical, since North Korea analysts in China argue that North Korea's fears that the US seeks regime change are at the heart of the Kim government's mistrust of the US, making it important for the Trump administration to signal it's not seeking regime change as it enters talks with Kim.
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" In the October Democratic presidential debate, Gabbard worked to make the case that she is now the candidate who can lead the US to "peace and prosperity," calling US involvement in conflicts in Syria and Yemen "regime change wars," and promising "as president I will end these regime change wars.
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During interviews this week Kerry has accused the Trump administration of pursuing a policy of regime change in Iran.
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What it wants is a deterrent to protect it from any kind of Iraq- or Libya-style "regime change".
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He has accused Washington of trying to effect regime change in North Korea, and predicted that would unleash chaos.
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And he cited US policy in Libya as a symbol of failure by Western countries who favored regime change.
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The weekend rally, called "Free Iran 2018 — The Alternative," sought to plant the seeds for regime change in Iran.
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Trump's National Security Adviser John Bolton told Reuters in August that "regime change" in Iran is not American policy.
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People familiar with elements of Kremlin thinking say that is because Russia flatly opposes regime change in North Korea.
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But it has just as much to do with halting what Russia calls the West's "policy of regime change".
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Regime change in Iraq was something that Bush campaigned on, although no one took him seriously at the time.
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Mr Abe told Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that Mr Trump wanted a new deal, not regime change.
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Tillerson has said that Washington is not interested in regime change or in sending its military into North Korea.
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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recently said the United States does not want regime change in North Korea.
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They justify their support of Trump by saying that America is in such deep trouble it needs regime change.
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Absent a regime change and sovereign debt default, the U.S. is unlikely to come to the aid of Venezuela.
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Unfortunately for them, the principal actors in the impending regime change in Washington aren't around to answer in person.
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What's less well known, I told Shelly, is that Sanders also voted for regime change in Iraq, in 1998.
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It has said Trump's offer to negotiate contradicts his actions and accused Washington of trying to foment regime change.
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CANVAS' training and methodology also helped usher in regime change in Lebanon in 2005 and the Maldives in 2008.
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And the best way to promote regime change is to empower Iran's minorities to topple the Islamist government themselves.
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Furthermore, a non-ideal situation does not mean external regime change has any realistic chance of producing something better.
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Putin is deeply opposed to what he thinks is a US policy of fomenting unrest and supporting regime change.
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The question is whether the administration is willing to seize the opportunity and push for regime change in Tehran.
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It is true the economic sanctions have proved successful in achieving objectives short of regime change, nonproliferation for instance.
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Military intervention and a Washington-orchestrated regime change attempt in Iran would be a dangerous mistake with catastrophic consequences.
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Moreover, "[h]ow engineering regime change in Tehran will benefit the United States is [not] clear," notes Ret. Col.
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Pompeo did stop short of calling for regime change, a policy advocated by some hawks in the Trump administration.
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The leaders of the Party, Julius Martov and Pavel Axelrod, aimed at a peaceful regime change via democratic process.
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The US instead appears to be aiming for regime change and tightening sanctions to bring Maduro to his knees.
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I think the United States should be working with governments around the world, not get involved in regime change.
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Moscow responded with a full-throated embrace of Maduro and over-the-top accusations of Washington-engineered regime change.
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He responded, "No," when asked at a U.S. Senate hearing whether Washington was seeking regime change in the country.
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"Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and others in the administration favor regime change," he said in a phone interview.
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Moreover, the former NSA was a key proponent of the aborted strike on Iran and of regime change there.
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Ms. Gabbard, a congresswoman from Hawaii, has railed against "regime change wars" and warned of a nuclear arms race.
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Tillerson said the Trump administration was not seeking to topple Assad through violent regime change because it could backfire.
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Today relations with Russia are again frigid, but it is unclear whether breaking the ice will require regime change.
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These are Strauss's relativists and nihilists, who have perpetrated "regime change" at home, destroying the republic, or trying to.
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In Washington, bipartisan policymakers celebrated the culmination of U.S.-led regime change that protected human rights and advanced democracy.
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No region in the world has a similar record of coups, revolutions and regime change caused by social instability.
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Giuliani caused more controversy on Saturday when he said that the U.S. is "committed" to regime change in Iran.
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Likewise, we should consider regime change in Tehran led by the opposition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
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We need to convince it that we have zero interest in invading the country or bringing about regime change.
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Just days before the strike, the Trump administration seemed to be signaling lack of interest in Syrian regime change.
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Saying that, she does think regime change in the country would, over the long term, be a good thing.
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That would be the issue of Pyongyang's criminal human rights record and the case it makes for regime change.
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But some groups and institutions maintained "a single political agenda of regime change at any cost", Hun Sen added.
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And in 2016, Bolton called for regime change while he was reportedly under consideration to be Secretary of State.
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" When Jake Tapper asked her if regime change was the position of the Trump administration, she offered an ambiguous response: "regime change is something that we think is going to happen, because all of the parties are going to see Assad is not the leader that needs to be taking place for Syria.
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If there is a regime change, that could lead to the installation of a more pro-US leader in Pyongyang.
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"On the other hand, North Korea is a big headache but regime change is not an option," the source added.
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"There are Libertarians finding common ground with our foreign policy, and how we will end regime change wars," Gabbard said.
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By the summer of 2011, the limited intervention to protect civilians had drifted into an opportunist policy of regime change.
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The day before the conference, in driving sleet, the Mujahideen-e-Khalq held a rally to call for regime change.
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The Trump administration has said that it is not seeking regime change in Iran, but rather a change in behavior.
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That is against what Turkey has tried to do since 2011 in terms of regime change and backing the opposition.
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" She said regime change in Syria would create a vacuum that would be "quickly filled" by "terrorists of all stripes.
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Which country routinely imposes regime change, including on dictators foolish enough to voluntarily give up their nuclear and missile programs?
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The Americans are not using all of the tools necessary in order to bring about a regime change in Iran.
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It would behoove the Trump administration to take his tough-on-Iran policy a step further and support regime change.
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"It's implicitly a regime change policy," said Suzanne Maloney, deputy director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution.
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North Korea believes nuclear weapons are the ultimate deterrent against any potential US-led attempts at invasion or regime change.
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"We want a regime change" and "We don't want Bouteflika or Said (his brother and presidential adviser)," the crowd chanted.
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The problem with Trump's regime change agenda is that to work he needs the soft power that comes with popularity.
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Neoconservative stalwart, Michael Ledeen is famous for using the catchphrase "faster please," advocating for regime change in the Middle East.
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Regime change led by China, rather than the United States, may be the best of a range of unappealing options.
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Surely, he is aware that the youth seek regime change and will not tolerate a game of regime musical chairs.
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Regime change in Iran, if indeed that is the goal of this triumvirate, is not a given by any means.
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Tehran dismissed the U.S. ultimatum and one senior official said it showed the United States seeks "regime change" in Iran.
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Last night was a surgical strike on Syrian chemical capabilities, not the deployment of 160,000 troops effecting a regime change.
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"The Hawaii lawmaker said she was running to end the "Bush-Clinton-Trump foreign policy doctrine of regime-change wars.
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And the threat of war looms once again, as the administration openly admits to maintaining a policy of regime change.
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If sanctions fail to cause regime change, Step Two is to coerce or bribe military officers to overthrow the regime.
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After an epic, bloody regime change, however, the bitter old Lord Death has given way to a younger female successor.
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The U.S. objective would not be to force regime change but to foster an arrangement acceptable to all Syrian parties.
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OK, last but not least on our menu of options: What about a larger military campaign aimed at regime change?
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Gabbard contended that the entire situation was a consequence of what she characterized as America's "regime change" war in Syria.
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As the Saudis have given up on the possibility of regime change in Damascus, their stance toward Russia has changed.
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"Do the Americans want regime change, or a photo op, or negotiations," and if so, on what terms, he asked.
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And, to their credit, some proponents of permanently expanding sanctions on Iran do admit that regime change is their goal.
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Critics called the speech a prelude to attempted regime change by the United States — and perhaps armed conflict with Iran.
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Amid life-threatening shortages of food and medicine, government officials use humanitarian aid as a political weapon for regime change.
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Of course, efforts to bring about regime change can take many forms, with military confrontation far down the options list.
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His message seemed at odds with the administration's repeated claim that it is not pressing for regime change in Iran.
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But a year later, Mr. Guaidó's campaign for regime change is flagging, while Mr. Maduro has ramped up political repression.
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In a lot of ways, we've been too concerned with those ambitions of nation-building, regime change, and democracy promotion.
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In 2002, Bush put North Korea in the infamous "Axis of Evil", which strongly implied a future regime change effort.
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They are a remarkable people, with an incredible heritage and unlimited potential," Trump added "We do not seek regime change.
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Trump said "we did not take action to start a war," adding that his administration does not seek regime change.
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It rejected the charges as unfounded and political, noting how the timing of the lawsuit coincides with political regime change.
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The President claimed that the US is "not looking for regime change," but suggested painful US measures are to come.
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But Castro said Friday that Trump's policy shift announced last month would ultimately fail to spark regime change in Cuba.
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Pompeo made waves last year when he made comments that were widely interpreted as supporting regime change in North Korea.
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"They only rally around regime change," said Ms. Golinger, who opposes how Mr. Maduro has gone about the constitutional rewrite.
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"This meeting is yet another attempt by the United States to affect regime change," said Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian ambassador.
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Consolidating influence and leadership in Latin America depends not only on achieving regime change in Venezuela, but doing so quickly.
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"I think history has shown in recent times that what comes after regime change is even worse," Mr. Wallace said.
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They are aimed at modifying Iran's behavior not bring about a "regime change" targeting President Hassan Rouhani, the officials added.
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At the same time, Pompeo said he was not advocating regime change for North Korea and had never done so.
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Donald Trump has the blood of the Kurds on his hand, but so do many of the politicians in our country from both parties who have supported this ongoing "regime change" war in Syria that started in 2011, along with many in the mainstream media, who have been championing and cheerleading this regime change war.
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The neocons who control U.S. foreign policy make no secret of the fact that their "endgame" is regime change in Russia.
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Haley, the UN ambassador, pushed for regime change in Syria, while Secretary of State Tillerson argued that could make things worse.
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Protesters held banners with slogans such as "Viktor give us back democracy", "We want freedom of the press" and "Regime change".
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The regime change meant Schiller lost his privilege to walk into the Oval Office at any time to see the president.
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Second, Kim is wary of eliminating the nuclear deterrent, which made autocrats Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi vulnerable to regime change.
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The White House is now full of officials who have spent much of their careers calling for regime change in Iran.
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First, he is staunchly opposed to regime change fostered by outsiders of the kind that brought chaos to Iraq and Libya.
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She has vehemently argued against U.S.-led regime change and "staked out anti-interventionist foreign policy positions in Congress," per CNN.
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Trump indicated an openness to discussions with Iran on a nuclear deal and said he was not looking for regime change.
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"(The) principle here is the fact that the Iranian people want regime change and are taking major steps towards this objective."
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Mr Trump's hawkish national-security adviser, John Bolton, has long supported regime change in Iran, and even military action against it.
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America's disastrous foreign policy of regime change and armed "liberation" would be tossed into the dustbin of history where it belongs.
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Mr Trump's hawkish national security adviser, John Bolton, has long supported regime change in Iran, and even military action against it.
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Other geopolitical experts have likened the opposing U.S. and Russian stances on regime change to a return to the Cold War.
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I think he is not anxious to have the regime change, he's not anxious to be involved in every civil war.
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She led the charge for violent, deadly and destructive regime change in Libya and Syria and supported the coup in Honduras.
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"Our current strategy of nation-building and regime change is a proven failure," he said in an August speech on terrorism.
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Iran dismissed Washington's ultimatum and one senior Iranian official said it showed the United States is seeking "regime change" in Iran.
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For Russia, propping up Assad would be a victory for their policy of national sovereignty versus America's preference for regime change.
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We can always hope that the Korean people will overthrow their dictator or that China will act to promote regime change.
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Those major speeches — with the implied threat of regime change — probably helped bring about at least a partial change in attitude.
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Indeed, "[h]ow engineering regime change in Tehran will benefit the United States is [not] clear," writes military historian retired Col.
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This has been demonstrated too many times already in the failed regime change projects of the Bush and Obama administrations alike.
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The Wisconsin Republican advocated for the US to get China "fully engaged" and eventually achieve "regime change," but without military force.
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After all, even if the ayatollahs are pushed into a corner, without a regime change their reign of terror will continue.
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Other minority groups in Iran face similar repression and note the important role the U.S. must play in encouraging regime change.
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Beyond that, major Trump administration figures, such as national security advisor John Bolton, openly advocate for regime change in the country.
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"And here's the reason the administration is trying to do this: They are pursuing a policy of regime change," Kerry said.
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From the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) point of view, the U.S. seeks changes so sweeping that they amount to regime change.
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And his former secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, suggested that the Trump administration would support regime change in the Islamic Republic.
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We should also make it a stated goal of the United States to pursue a strategy of regime change in Iran.
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MORE, became the most senior U.S. official to visit NCRI members in Albania; he also supports regime change from within Iran.
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At a minimum, Saudi officials must avoid actions that make it look as if they are plotting regime change in Tehran.
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Their goal was almost certainly to nudge friendly right-wing governments in Brazil and the United States toward supporting regime change.
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American security does not depend on regime change in Tehran, however much we would like to see the Iranian people liberated.
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Instead of a US-led regime change, the two sides need to share power temporarily, until new elections, perhaps in 2021.
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Lindsey Graham advocates for regime change in Iran Republican senator from South Carolina urges President Trump to 'stay tough' with Tehran.
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But one of the differences between the secretary and I is I'm not quite so aggressive with regard to regime change.
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Secretary of State Pompeo's recent "Plan B" was a political mission impossible that Iran — absent radical regime change — could never accept.
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The tragic irony of Obama's "Assad must go" utterance is that it was never intended as a commitment to regime change.
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They passed the Iraq Liberation Act, which declared regime change as official US policy; a reluctant but embattled Clinton signed it.
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Amanda Brugel's Rita is the Schrodinger's Cat of sympathy, while national treasure Ann Dowd single-handedly holds down the regime change.
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Such language, analysts said, edged the Trump administration closer to a position of "regime change," something it has not formally embraced.
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Ms. Gabbard has focused on ending what she calls "regime change wars," the "new Cold War" and the nuclear arms race.
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He has broken the Iran nuclear deal, with an untested alternative of broad oil sanctions, and implicitly pushing for regime change.
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In March, 2018, Trump fired McMaster and replaced him with John Bolton , a fierce advocate of regime change in Latin America.
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Will this latest mass revolt be able to topple the government, will the people get the regime change they're chanting for?
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The director also broke some policy ground with a veiled suggestion that the administration might pursue regime change in North Korea.
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Trump claims not to want regime change, but his administration has never laid out a serious negotiating position detailing its goals.
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In sum, nothing short of regime change will stop Iran from building nuclear weapons and the delivery systems to carry them.
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The U.S.–Saudi preference for regime change and demotic movements (no matter how loathsome) has been a gift to extremists everywhere.
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According to her, she is running to end "regime change" wars and turn the tide on America's history of military interventionism.
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Mindful of the lessons of Iraq, each administration has defined the primary goal as defeating the Islamic State, not regime change.
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The Kentucky senator said Sunday his opposition came from Pompeo's support for regime change abroad and Haspel's history with CIA torture.
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Mr. Putin was determined to prove that Russia would stick by its friends and oppose "regime change" rooted in outside intervention.
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As for regime change, the mass public turnout in Iran and around the region to mourn Soleimani should not be underestimated.
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The agenda of occupation, nation-building, and perhaps even regime change Macron envisions offers no promise of peace or even stability.
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The payment was part of a settlement over an arms deal from 1979, shortly before Iran went through a regime change.
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Despite increased tensions with Iran, Haley emphasized that the US was not seeking regime change in any part of the world.
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And that's just what has happened, along with some of the political repression that generally accompanies this type of regime change.
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For Kim, the "Libya model" was code for regime change; Kim had no intention of ending up dead in a ditch.
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It followed comments last weekend from CIA Director Mike Pompeo that the North Korean people "would love to see" regime change.
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" The U.S. goal, the two men said, is a denuclearized Korean Peninsula and not "regime change or accelerated reunification of Korea.
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" In the general election, Mr. Trump repeatedly criticized Hillary Clinton and Mr. Obama for pushing for "immediate regime change in Syria.
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Iran dismissed Washington's ultimatum and a senior Iranian official said it showed the United States was seeking "regime change" in Iran.
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Donald Trump has the blood of the Kurds on his hands, but so do many of the politicians in our country from both parties who have supported this ongoing regime change war in Syria that started in 2011, along with many in the mainstream media, who have been championing and cheer leading this regime change war.
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"Donald Trump has the blood of the Kurds on his hand, but so do many of the politicians in our country from both parties who have supported this ongoing regime change war in Syria that started in 2011, along with many in the mainstream media who have been championing and cheerleading this regime change war," she said.
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"Regime change — that was not our business at all," Amr Moussa, who headed the organization at the time, said in an interview.
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He defied years of US efforts at regime change and his very defiance transformed him into something of an enduring national obsession.
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Aides have variously called for regime change, a grand bargain that reshapes Iran's foreign policy or a slightly tougher arms-control agreement.
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His top national security adviser, Michael Flynn, has called for regime change in Iran and spoken out forcefully against the nuclear deal.
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Since that doesn't seem to be really happening, we should at the very least be trying for that kind of regime change.
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Enter John Bolton John Bolton, an advocate for regime change in Iran, took over as national security adviser in early April 2018.
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Some of these moves are rooted in Russia's deep misgivings about western-sponsored regime change in countries such as Libya and Iraq.
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The conclusion comes via a wonky slog through issues and terminology ( "regime change" anyone?) that only an avid Fed follower could love.
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They are especially fearful a regime change could see them held accountable for any involvement in corruption or gross human rights violations.
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Many countries, including the U.S., endorsed that leadership bid and backed regime change in a country wracked by poverty and political unrest.
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Having grudgingly accepted that Mr Assad is not going away, Turkey is no longer in the business of regime change in Syria.
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Nor does Trump seem in the mold of the second President Bush, who advocated regime change and democratization in the Middle East.
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She uses Kremlin talking points on Syria, repeating the RT-approved phrase "regime change war" nine times in the last Democratic debate.
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A better policy would be to decouple armed humanitarian intervention from coercive regime change, and promote democracy only by non-lethal means.
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Russia's propaganda paranoia was based on fears of regime change that blossomed during the Arab Spring nearly a decade ago, Pigman added.
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Go deeper: U.S. sanctions Venezuela's state oil company in push for regime change How public-private partnerships failed in the Trump administration
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Mr Pompeo has held some undiplomatic positions: against the Iran deal and in favour of regime change in North Korea, for instance.
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During the nuclear deal talks, President Obama took regime change off the table and let Iran enrich uranium on its own soil.
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UN Ambassador Nikki Haley appears to have staked out a more hawkish position calling for the necessity of regime change in Syria.
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He said he didn't know whether there would be regime change in Iran but hoped U.S. sanctions would change the leadership's conduct.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has consistently rejected the idea of regime change reiterating Tuesday that it is not the US intention.
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He also endorsed regime change, explicitly calling for the removal of Gadhafi and the recognition of the Libyan Interim Transitional National Council.
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It has offered to mediate between him and Guaido and slammed what it called U.S. efforts to effect regime change in Venezuela.
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Markey said Haley's goal for a regime change would require the deployment of additional U.S. ground troops, which would require congressional approval.
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Given America's Middle East trials and tribulations since 2003, one would assume "regime change" would have disappeared from the foreign policy vernacular.
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The president frequently attacked U.S.-led efforts at regime change, particularly in Iraq and Libya, during his successful 2016 White House run.
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The neoconservatives insisted that regime change in Iraq would be easy—and would set off a chain reaction across the Middle East.
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He examined four great inflations in the 1920s and showed that once a credible policy "regime change" occurred, hyperinflation ended in weeks.
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We went from striking back against those who attacked us, to regime change, to nation-building, to policing their country for them.
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" Bolton, also an Iran regime change advocate, wrote an editorial in The New York Times entitled "To stop Iran's bomb, bomb Iran.
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It was clear to all in attendance that there is a democratic alternative to the ayatollahs and regime change is within reach.
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Finally, the tack Pompeo outlined couldn't be better designed to put the U.S. on a path to forcible regime change in Iran.
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The Revolutionary Guards have an extensive business empire to protect, and believe opening up to the West could lead to regime change.
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And the most powerful country in the world, the United States, often expressed a desire to see wholesale regime change in Pyongyang.
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" In Dubai, the new U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates told The Associated Press that America was "not advocating regime change.
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The White House denied that it is seeking regime change, but has yet to offer a clear statement of President Trump's intentions.
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While Mr. Jia is capable of cynicism, he has not been an advocate of regime change in China, friends and colleagues said.
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Trump has consistently outlined two key US aims in Syria, neither of which includes regime change: defeat ISIS and push out Iran.
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John Bolton advocated as much before he joined the administration as national security adviser, although officials deny regime change is the goal.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson emphasized on Sunday that this is not the beginning of a shift towards regime change in Syria.
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"This is an administration that is more inclined to be averse to regime change than previous administrations," the first administration official said.
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The problem, Mr. Haass said, is that regime change strategies rarely work, and even when they do, the cost is prohibitively high.
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" He added: "While the secretary has never advocated for regime change, we all have an obligation to be prepared for any scenario.
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Whether talking about Toronto's biggest musical export or prompting a youth-driven regime change, his sincerity and honesty remain at the fore.
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National Security Adviser John Bolton has long advocated regime change, while Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has also appeared to endorse it.
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TV. "Because of Trump's failure to end the regime change war in Syria — the Kurds are now paying the price," she added.
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Ted Cruz, with the intention of creating "major poverty" in the country, then "maybe" providing arms to Iranians to foment regime change.
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The cumulative effect of these actions has led Iran's President Hassan Rouhani to accuse the administration of openly agitating for regime change.
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And while Bolton has frequently advocated for regime change in Libya and Syria, the Pentagon has sought to avoid such a conflict.
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To be sure, the state-run North Korean media also color the threat of regime change with frequent outbursts and nationalistic messages.
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Mr. Trump came into office dropping demands for regime change in Syria, seemingly "resolving the tension in American policy," Mr. Stein said.
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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have insisted that the United States is not aiming for regime change.
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Mr. Putin had long opposed Western interventionist policies and explained many of the world's political crises as Western-sponsored regime-change operations.
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Washington has also led various campaigns to de-legitimize the Venezuelan government, a vital part of any extra legal "regime change" strategy.
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It's hard to tell whether the US "maximum pressure" campaign that destroyed Iran's economy is deliberately evolving into a regime change strategy.
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Meanwhile, Trump's willingness to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is at odds with Bolton's past calls for regime change in Iran.
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"You have to be very careful when people start talking about regime change or normalisation," Praet told a business conference in Frankfurt.
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U.S. policymakers must be careful not to mistake the protesters as the manifestation of their own desires for regime change in Iran.
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Credible regime change in an Iranian context involves empowerment, recognition, and solidarity with the regime's principal democratic opposition, not preemption or occupation.
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The Republican senator said Pompeo's hawkish stance contradicts the skepticism Trump expressed toward foreign interventions and regime change on the campaign trail.
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Regardless of how one feels about Mr. Maduro, it's clear that Washington is not a trustworthy partner in pushing for regime change.
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In part because of the Trump administration's all-in support for regime change, the crisis has become a dangerous global power struggle.
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In reality, both the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began as regime-change operations, and then morphed into more open-ended missions.
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Often, these activists devote most of their time to tracking migrant boats, counseling people wishing to defect, and pushing for regime change.
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He said today that he opposes regime change in North Korea but had mused just last year about toppling the Kim regime.
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Clinton over trade, immigration, Social Security, her views on regime change, and even her ties to former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.
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Trump said Monday that he's not looking for regime change in Tehran, but merely wants to avoid Iran developing or acquiring nuclear weapons.
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John Bolton, also a national security advisor to Trump, has been saying for years that we should bomb Iran and pursue regime change.
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Most outside analysts believe its true aim in wanting such weapons is to deter outside powers from considering any Iraq-style regime change.
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As such, Moscow wants to protect its assets from regime change as well as preventing the U.S. from increasing its sphere of influence.
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" He added: "This is what the Iranian leadership is banking on — that there will be regime change in Riyadh and Washington before Tehran.
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She referred to herself in one interview as a "dove" on regime change but a "hawk" on terrorism, neatly summarizing her actual positions.
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Once the regime change happens, which is inevitable, you're going to want to hold these securities as they're going to double in value.
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If, bent on regime change, it acts unthinkingly, it could come to be seen once again in Latin America as imperialist and overbearing.
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After earlier coercive diplomacy failed to produce a military uprising, the Trump administration is doubling down on its efforts to drive regime change.
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Sudan is experiencing something seen in several countries since the Arab spring of 22015: popular protests against an ageing despot precipitating regime change.
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In March, NATO began bombing Libya, officially to enforce a UN-backed no-fly zone, but effectively clearly the way for regime change.
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And anybody who believes that regime change is a viable option is delusional, unless there is a coup among the North Korean elite.
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But now, I think we're in a regime change and that the next crop of successful financial innovators will look a lot different.
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Bolton and Pompeo's history of pushing for regime change in Iran "has given us nothing but good reason to be skeptical," Price said.
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The aim of the US, they said, is not regime change in North Korea but a "peaceful pressure campaign" to denuclearize it. 3.
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Codevilla argues that regime change of a terrible kind has already occurred, with the American elite destroying what was great about the country.
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Investors cheered the regime change in Brazil, as the country's Bovespa stock index posted its best one-year performance since 2009 last year.
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He should have allies take primary responsibility for their own security, and end regime change and nation-building, especially in the Middle East.
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All systems seemed go, but just as with Rifkin's take on the material, a regime change signaled a death knell for the project.
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Finding the right balance The history of regime change in other countries has made the scrubbing of names and symbols a common occurrence.
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And two: The U.S. should end its "regime change" war against Assad and focus its military might on al Qaeda and ISIS instead.
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We could certainly contribute to an international effort, but haven't we amply demonstrated our utter incompetence in managing regime change and nation-building?
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And that's another reason the US has to assure China that it is not seeking regime change in North Korea, says Secretary Perry.
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While they have been protesting for some time, Trump's reimposition of sanctions gives the Iranian people even more reason to seek regime change.
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Agency veterans, with ample experience in analyzing authoritarian governments and implementing regime change, know full well the danger that someone like Trump poses.
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Poblete is closely allied with national security adviser John Bolton, who has taken a hard line on Iran and advocated for regime change.
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"Mindful of the longstanding position of Bolton on that matter, as an advocate of regime change, an advocate of military action," he said.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday accused the United States of seeking regime change in his country, despite the Trump administration insisting otherwise.
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The long-term solution to the Korean crisis is internal regime change and reunification under a government that resembles present-day South Korea.
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An intelligence report, dated October 30, said Beijing and Moscow both supported regime change out of frustration at Zimbabwe's economic implosion under Mugabe.
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John Bolton, the national-security adviser, and Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State, championed regime change in Tehran before they joined the Administration.
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"By the summer of 2011, the limited intervention to protect civilians had drifted into an opportunist policy of regime change," the lawmakers said.
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Menendez has criticized Sanders' refusal to call Maduro a dictator, a label in that in the establishment thinking allows for forced regime change.
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"Syria is a failing state that has not produced regime change," said Rudy deLeon, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
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What if massive anti-Putin protests had erupted during the exercise and Moscow thought everything was a Western-orchestrated plot for regime change?
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North Korea long expressed disdain for Bolton, calling him a "warmonger" and "defective human product" who glorified regime change and pre-emptive strikes.
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Thursday's announcement falls on the 65th anniversary of the 1953 Iranian coup, stoking international speculation that the Trump administration is advocating regime change.
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If Iraq was a test case on regime change, the answer clearly must be that we cannot allow this to happen in Iran.
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MORE made in 2013 when he assured Tehran that the U.S. is not seeking "regime change," during a speech at the United Nations.
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Right now, Graham said, Kim is focused on shoring up his long-term security, particularly against any threat of US-led regime change.
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In other words, the supposed US commitment to regime change in Syria is the result, at least in part, of an analytical mistake.
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Per the New York Times, Pompeo has come as close as any Trump administration official to calling for regime change in North Korea.
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In 2009, Farahanipour said, some activists were disappointed when then-President Barack Obama showed support for reformers instead of those seeking regime change.
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Russia has regularly blasted American efforts at "regime change" in Libya and derided the West for backing what it called "fascists" in Ukraine.
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The recent experience with North Korea works against any prospect of Trump switching from regime change war-war to jaw-jaw with Iran.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday that regime change is not a U.S. objective in dealings with Iran.
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But all Lukanga knew as a young boy was struggle, he said, as the country grappled with regime change and its malignant effects.
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We must abandon the failed policy of nation- building and regime change that Hillary Clinton pushed in Iraq, Libya, in Egypt, and Syria.
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Russian leaders believe that Washington interferes in their domestic politics and that the United States intends to orchestrate a regime change in Moscow.
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"The Trump administration's reaction shows how deeply rooted the regime change instinct is," said Stephen Walt, a Harvard University professor of international relations.
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The hawkish members of the Trump administration would see such a summit as an impediment to their true agenda: regime change in Iran.
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She referred to herself in one interview as a "dove" on regime change but a "hawk" on terrorism, neatly summarizing her actual positions.
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" And she had a strong moment where she accused "both parties and the mainstream media" of "championing and cheerleading for regime change war.
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Indeed, at an Aspen Security Forum on July 20, CIA Director Mike Pompeo said the Trump administration was considering regime change in Pyongyang.
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It ends with a billion-dollar company, a massive regime change, and a platform that's upended everything from retail and tourism to socializing.
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In his remarks, the Chinese envoy, Liu Jieyi, warned the United States against efforts at "regime change" and the use of military force.
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The former national security adviser sent a tweet calling the elimination of Soleimani "the first step to regime change" in the Islamic country.
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We can't do it through regulations that can be eviscerated every 4 to 8 years (or whenever there's a regime change in Washington).
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As a top national security official in the George W. Bush administration, Bolton was one of the architects of regime change in Iraq.
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And Secretary of State Rex Tillerson suggested that regime change is back on the table, despite the president's long commitment to the contrary.
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Also, experts say there have been conflicting statements by Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo and Tillerson about regime change in North Korea.
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At the meeting Wednesday, Bolivia's UN ambassador said he condemns any type of regime change by outside forces intending to control natural resources.
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"Every time we launch these interventionist regime change wars it is not only our veterans who pay the price for that," she says.
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But Mr. Pompeo chose to take a stronger approach, one person said, helping prompt the Trump administration's first overt attempt at regime change.
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"We have the feeling that the American position for Iran is regime change so what can you do within that framework?" he said.
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Trump said he thought a deal with Iran on its nuclear program was possible and said he was not seeking regime change there.
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But this is a consistent difference in assessment of America's allies, not a consistent difference in assessment of the merits of regime change.
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He has criticized regime change, but also called for the US to send more troops to topple ISIS's empire in Syria and Iraq.
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Their presence proves a future regime change will bring some figures out of the dark only to select others to take their place.
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Why it matters: The Trump administration is using all economic and diplomatic levers at its disposal in a push for regime change in Venezuela.
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Oil prices are basically flat Thursday after falling yesterday despite uncertainty in Venezuela and the White House endorsement of regime change against Nicolás Maduro.
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Before he left, he was generally seen as close with the royal court, and even today describes the idea of regime change as "ridiculous".
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The regime's the real issue," he wrote in an email, adding that he sees "regime change as the only eventual way out of this.
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But Mr. Pompeo has expressed extremely hawkish views about North Korea, suggesting over the summer that the United States should push for regime change.
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I'd like to ask Senator Warren if she would join me in calling for an end to this regime change war in Syria finally.
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More aggressive options like military strikes, or even regime change, carry catastrophic risks, such as the type of nuclear disaster Washington hopes to prevent.
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They keenly recall how the last one turned out, and how chaotic a process regime change has been for their neighbors Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The U.S. recognized that claim and has been encouraging support for regime change in Venezuela, a country hit by the economic policies of Maduro.
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"We're definitely not seeking conflict or regime change," Susan Thornton, acting assistant secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, told reporters Monday.
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Analysts are pointing to national security adviser John Bolton's advocacy for regime change in Tehran, while the UN and US allies are expressing concern.
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Few of these efforts, with or without formal UN backing, have led to outright regime change, let alone any substantial modification of their behavior.
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Late last month, CIA Director Mike Pompeo sent shockwaves through Asia by appearing to allude to the possibility of regime change in North Korea.
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At the same time he has lamented that we have not taken similar actions aimed at "regime change" in Iran, Syria, and North Korea.
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McCain and Wolfowitz claim further decades of U.S. military intervention, regime change, and nation-building are the only alternative to global misery and chaos.
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But with relative political stability in America, and no wholesale regime change, erasures of major political figures have been less common—and often temporary.
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" Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, citing Haley's remark, had a different take: "So that means regime change is now the policy of the Trump administration.
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Remember we never thought regime change would arrive in the Soviet Union or Libya, yet both occurred in the blink of an historian's eye.
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Because Putin fears, at a level approaching paranoia, U.S. efforts at "regime change," and Russia has its own presidential election coming up in March.
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" But, he cautions that, "Any military action should be framed exclusively in terms of chemical weapons deterrence and not in terms of regime change.
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Far from being warmongers, advocates of regime change are calling for a transformation from within, led by indigenous forces, not through foreign military intervention.
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US 'concerned' Analysts have said the Trump administration's campaign, which lists 12 changes Iran must make, amounts to regime change in everything but name.
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So much so that the obvious next question is what it might cost if the Trump administration seeks to provoke regime change in Iran.
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In any case, loose talk of pre-emptive strikes and regime change are not exactly incentives for Kim Jong Un to surrender his nukes.
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While the president has criticized regime-change foreign policies carried out by his predecessors, Trump himself isn't above trying to unseat a hostile government.
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"The Administration's suggested policy of regime change in Iran reflects wishful thinking and a flawed interpretation of intelligence about Iran's vulnerability," the signatories wrote.
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" Pressed in a separate interview on whether the U.S. would seek regime change, Pompeo said: "Only time will tell how these negotiations will proceed.
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When it comes to sizing, it's time for a regime change at Banana Republic, according to the CEO of the struggling retailer's parent company.
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The Hawaii congresswoman, an Army veteran, is more vigorously critical of "regime change wars" and military adventuring in general than some of her rivals.
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Among these policies were regime change and nation-building, which Mr. Bush pursued in Afghanistan and Iraq, and which Mr. Obama has largely abandoned.
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Choosing Mr. Bolton, who is a longtime advocate of regime change in Iran, to deliver that message fueled skepticism among allies and congressional Democrats.
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The West should also abandon the goal of regime change and temper expectations of democratic transition in Syria in the short-to-medium term.
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By touting the Libyan model (nuclear disarmament, then United States-backed regime change), they stoked fears that they should have been working to assuage.
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Some members of Congress and of Mr. Trump's administration, including his national security adviser, John R. Bolton, have advocated regime change in the North.
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The test came a day after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that the U.S. was not seeking a regime change in North Korea.
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The best one can hope for is to "manage" Iran; internal regime change is the only possibility of changing Iran's relationship with the West.
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" Former national security adviser John Bolton, a vocal advocate of regime change in Iran, described the killing of Soleimani as "long in the making.
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And instead of convincing Americans that the Pentagon should overthrow Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, they were discussing the possibility of regime change in Iran.
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"We do not seek war, we do not seek nation-building, we do not seek regime change," the president said in remarks this month.
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These protests were focused mostly on bringing much-needed economic reforms and ending corruption, and not about regime change or ending the Islamic theocracy.
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But it has also supported Mexico economically, abstained from seeking regime change, tolerated mass migration from the south and generally treated Mexico with respect.
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He also pushed back against critics alleging that the White House was using the aid as a negotiating tool to spur a regime change.
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The January protests made clear that regime change from within is obtainable, but they also highlighted the importance of international support for the initiative.
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Bolton, for example, has argued for regime change in North Korea and has railed against a multilateral deal intended to curb Iran's nuclear program.
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"Our goal is not regime change, nor do we desire to threaten the North Korean people or destabilize the Asia Pacific region," Tillerson said.
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Trump's team repeatedly says it doesn't seek any kind of regime change in Iran and that it wants to avoid a war, if possible.
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They actually thought that this would be good and help to bring about the kind of regime change that they want to see in Iran.
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When the U.S. first invaded Iraq to rid the country of Saddam Hussein in 22016, he hoped regime change would usher in a brighter future.
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When the U.S. first invaded Iraq to rid the country of Saddam Hussein in 2003, he hoped regime change would usher in a brighter future.
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Anyone pointing the finger at national security adviser John Bolton, who has argued for regime change in Iran, is giving Trump an unwarranted free pass.
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Green acknowledges that regime change in North Korea was one of three options the NSC he served on presented to then-president George W. Bush.
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While the White House has repeatedly said it is not seeking war or regime change, experts fear a miscalculation could lead to more serious confrontation.
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To that end, he could make it clear that freezing and then rolling back the North's nuclear programme is his goal rather than regime change.
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In response Mr Lavrov gave his counterpart a long lecture on American efforts to achieve "regime change" around the world, citing Serbia, Libya and Iraq.
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And he scorns intervention for ideological causes, such as regime-change, democracy and foreign nation-building, preferring to concentrate on America's national self-interest instead.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened further sanctions and if that happens it could ramp up its problems so far that it encourages regime change.
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Many may interpret Bolton's declaration, which echoes President George W. Bush's oft-repeated "axis of evil" phrase, as a new foundation for pursuing regime change.
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No one in Riyadh has missed the fact that growing economic uncertainty accelerated recent events in Egypt, Syria and Libya resulting in violent regime change.
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Trump said on Tuesday a lot of progress had been made with Iran and that he was not looking for regime change in the country.
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That will surely be the response to hints by Rex Tillerson, the American Secretary of State, that the Trump administration is aiming at regime change.
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Trump on Tuesday said a lot of progress had been made with Iran and that he was not looking for regime change in the country.
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Of these, Iraq and Libya both saw governments ousted by U.S.-led military regime change, while Ukraine has been increasingly menaced and attacked by Moscow.
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The money was part of a settlement with Iran concerning a 1979 arms deal, which occurred before the Middle Eastern nation experienced a regime change.
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Suzanne Maloney, deputy director of the Brooking Institution think tank's foreign policy program, said Pompeo's speech did indeed amount to a strategy of regime change.
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So if China or other countries support those high-ranking officials, giving them power to bring about change, it's possible to bring about regime change.
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Second, the nuclear program is not just a deterrent against regime change from the United States, it is one of Kim's few sources of legitimacy.
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They too easily risk repeating the very errors of military intervention, regime change and permanent nation building the Trump administration entered office pledging to avoid.
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It's one of the things I like about Donald Trump: One of the reasons I endorsed him is he thinks regime change is a mistake.
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That unspoken threat of regime change from within, encouraged from the outside, probably motivated Kim at least as much as any threat of military force.
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Unlike Pyongyang, with no signs of a substantial anti-regime movement, regime change from within Iran can be a tool in the administration's toolbox. How?
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An organized opposition to the Iranian regime exists, and regime change might include the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), in a principal role.
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Boots on the ground to another country for regime change or to correct something that we see in the other country that we don't like.
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The White House should now build on the successful passage of sanctions legislation to push for regime change in Tehran as an appropriate next step.
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"The question is clear: do we accomplish regime change or not," Moon told reporters after Ban said he was ruling out a run for president.
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President Trump must make it clear that the U.S. will remain a vigilant Gulf state partner, until regime change in Iran makes such vigilance unnecessary.
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But it will make those countries less nervous of U.S. interference and potential "regime change" - worries that have contributed to tensions over the past decade.
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Iran and its proxies, who were instrumental in helping the Assad regime change the direction of the war, want to cash in on their investment.
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Gabbard has said she is running for president to end regime-change wars, though she currently trails most of her 2020 opponents in opinion polls.
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About a year after the regime change, Iran became embroiled in a bloody war with Iraq, one that would end up killing a million people.
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On the other, Trump seems intent on avoiding the costs that would attend a major war or the nation-building efforts entailed in regime change.
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"Now on My Way" has generally fallen in line with Moon's principles, though some of its defector beauties now support regime change in the North.
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No matter how it might look, regime change really will come to men's tennis someday, but for now power remains concentrated in very familiar hands.
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Food has historically been an important factor, if not the most important, when the population of a country elects or otherwise forces a regime change.
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American actions in other countries — whether backing regime change in Libya or launching airstrikes against Syria for its use of chemical weapons — strengthen that view.
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" Gabbard responded to Buttigieg by saying he would have U.S. troops in Syria for "an indefinite period of time to continue this regime change war.
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Rather, the international community should talk about regime change in Pyongyang, as UN sanctions resolutions on North Korea have already provided the justification and rationalization.
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A truly resolute American administration might fire off a handful of Tomahawk missiles at an abandoned airfield, but regime change is not in the offing.
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But to escalate regional tensions, deepen sectarian rifts, undermine the nuclear agreement, pursue regime change and eschew all diplomatic engagement would be a hazardous affair.
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" She said that Mr. Trump "is not interested in keeping a nuclear nonproliferation agreement but in regime change in Iran — it's as simple as that.
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei wants to survive, and ending Iranian oil exports, combined with the maximum pressure sanctions campaign, could lead to regime change.
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Drastic regime change — like moving from a parliamentary system to a presidential one, with no checks and balances — should normally require a clear national consensus.
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"Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets to celebrate Soleimani's death, condemn the regime's domestic repression, call for regime change in Tehran," McConnell said.
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But while the youth movement is well underway in the women's game, regime change will have to wait a little longer still in men's tennis.
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Mr. Bolton, who before joining the administration was an advocate of American-led regime change in Iran, was an enthusiast of the "maximum pressure" campaign.
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The President has been consulting with former Ambassador to the UN John Bolton, an advocate for abandoning the deal and executing regime change in Iran.
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Russia, he said, could be won over to support regime change by guaranteeing that they would not lose oil contracts in a post-Hussein Iraq.
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But looming over his work on Trump's potential May or June summit with Kim are questions about Pompeo's views on regime change in North Korea.
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Tulsi Gabbard launched a broader critique of a U.S. "regime change war" that she said had begun under Obama, drawing a sharp response from Buttigieg.
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Onstage, she asked Warren whether the senator from Massachusetts would "call for an end to this regime-change war in Syria," and Warren said yes.
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The public record shows that America has a long bipartisan history of openly and covertly acting to foment regime change in dozens of foreign countries.
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"Regime change in Iran has to come from within Iran," said Robert A. Destro, an assistant secretary of state for democracy and human rights issues.
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But U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on July 27 the Trump administration had not instituted a policy of regime change or collapse toward Iran.
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" Discussing Venezuela, the top U.S. diplomat said militaries in Latin America often "handled" transitions from bad governments, but insisted he was not advocating "regime change.
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Tom Cotton, embraced by neoconservative luminaries, explicitly advocate that the US abandon the nuclear deal to instead force regime change or even launch military strikes.
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Given Putin's belief that the West is intent on regime change in Russia, a Trump presidency would also seem to take that off the table.
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The sanctions aim to modify Iran's behavior and not bring about a "regime change" targeting Rouhani, U.S. officials said on a conference call on Monday.
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Venezuela has entered an uncertain new phase, with President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joining 7 South American countries in endorsing regime change vs.
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"I think the way she framed that was to suggest that I had implied we ought to use military power to achieve regime change," Pence said.
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During Wednesday night's discussion of Benghazi, for instance, he shrewdly sidestepped the scandal to make a larger point about Clinton's support for regime change in Libya.
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Since Obama was willing to support regime change, the end result was going to be the overthrow of Qaddafi with no real plan to stabilize Libya.
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The group wrote white papers and sent letters to then-President Bill Clinton urging him and his foreign policy team to support regime change in Iraq.
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Optimism regarding the potential for a regime change is misplaced, said Kathryn Rooney Vera, head of research and emerging market strategy at Bulltick LLC in Miami.
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Not only that but, The New York Times and CNN have also smeared veterans like myself for calling for an end to this regime change war.
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PAUL I think it may be over-stating the case, protection may be from us invading and having regime change, that&aposs what happened in Libya.
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President Trump's commitment to regime change in Venezuela seems stronger than ever, and secondary sanctions to expand the scope of unilateral oil sanctions are being prepared.
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With regime change yet to take hold in Venezuela, the administration has begun to increase pressure on Cuba while tying together its policies toward both countries.
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Taken together, the demands would require a complete transformation by Iran&aposs government, and they hardened the perception that the administration is really seeking regime change.
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For Schweller, Trump represents a retreat from the hubris of the Obama and Bush years — and dubiously successful wars of regime change in Iraq and Libya.
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"We must abandon the failed policy of nation building and regime change that Hillary Clinton pushed in Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria," the prepared remarks read.
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" When asked about Trump's withdrawal of U.S. troops from northern Syria, Gabbard, an Iraq war veteran, criticized U.S. involvement in the region as "regime change war.
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Graham, who has criticized Trump over his foreign policy and national security rhetoric, said he views regime change as the new policy of the Trump administration.
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The situation has led to frustration on all sides, with Trump's CIA director Mike Pompeo last week appearing to indicate support for regime change in Pyongyang.
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The newfound directness makes sense as Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are noted Iran hawks who have advocated for regime change in the past.
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During his visit to Saudi Arabia in May, Trump singled out Iran for its support of terrorism, and even hinted at the need for regime change.
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Thanks to shortsighted politicians addicted to regime change wars, my constituents in Hawaii and the American people are on the verge of a stark new reality.
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For this reason alone, any invasion and scenario of regime-change in Damascus is off the table until these states lose interest in propping up Assad.
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Given the internal protests throughout Iran, the Trump administration's move might be the first step in many more to come to encourage and facilitate regime change.
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The lesson of the past two decades in the Middle East is surely that regime change leads to chaos, war, refugee flows, sectarian strife and more.
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The neocons worked their magic by focusing on a single aim (regime change in the Middle East, starting with Iraq) and pursuing it with tireless energy.
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From the North Korean perspective, an oil embargo that could threaten the stability of the regime contradicts the US official policy of not pursuing regime change.
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Neither George W. Bush's regime-change campaigns nor Obama's low-intensity, air-powered versions of the same strategy achieved anything but a costly Middle East stalemate.
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And though the Trump administration has maintained that its policy is not designed to lead to regime change in Tehran, some in Washington aren't entirely convinced.
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He has reminded him of the payoffs in Florida in 63 for supporting regime change: "There could be electoral rewards," Rubio recently told the Associated Press.
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The architects of regime change believed that such problems were a reasonable price to pay for the stable democratic governments that would emerge under free markets.
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As long as the American recipe for regime change results in extreme inequality, citizens will tend to freely choose autocrats making promises of prosperity for all.
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Over the years, Bolton has held some controversial stances, including advocating for preemptive military strikes on North Korea and Iran, and regime change in the latter.
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In Monday's interview, Ford said he does not think the United States has the capacity for regime change because of Russia and Iran's support for Assad.
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We hope this isn't the case, because each time a foreign government imposed regime change on the Congo, millions died and our situation only became worse.
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Despite our official commitment to nonproliferation, then, the revealed preference of our foreign policy elite is often for other priorities — NATO expansion, humanitarian intervention, regime change.
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Mr. Bolton has long promoted regime change in Iran, argued for bombing Iran and a more assertive American policy against Iranian expansionism in the Middle East.
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"I am grateful that the president is not eager to lurch into another Middle Eastern regime change, in an endless, unfocused, unconstitutional way," he told reporters.
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He said he's not seeking regime change in Tehran, but instead wants a longer-term nuclear deal that includes increased surveillance and also covers ballistic missiles.
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Gabbard won over a very small minority of Democrats who found her anti-regime change message authentic, and even made some fans among anti-war libertarians.
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Not only that but, The New York Times and CNN have also smeared veterans like myself for calling for an end to this regime change war.
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Barack Obama's outreach to Iran, brokering a nuclear agreement and giving up on regime change, was not good for the local sock puppet and effigy industry.
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The optimistic take is that the Iranian response will be limited, as the last thing it wants is an American invasion of Iran and regime change.
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The risk of conflict is rising because the Trump administration is signaling that its ultimate goal is regime change in Iran, several of the analysts said.
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He said that Mr. Hun Sen has long been suspicious of Washington's intentions and believes that a strong element of United States policy is regime change.
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One European diplomat said many Europeans remain concerned that the Trump administration is pursuing regime change — even though American officials insist that is not the goal.
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But as Venezuela's National Assembly elections approached, the Obama administration went back to its regime change strategy, supporting an international campaign to de-legitimize Venezuela's elections.
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Critics of a regime-change strategy note that the only way it could be brought about — short of war, coup or uprising — is with China's acquiescence.
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The idea did become more serious after McMaster was replaced in April 2018 by Bolton, a longtime Iran hawk and advocate for regime change in Tehran.
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Moya-Ocampos argued that those supportive of Guaido had become "exhausted" in recent months, with many citizens "losing faith" in his ability to deliver regime change.
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"I don't think our policy ought to be for regime change, so I think Pompeo really isn't a good fit to be a diplomat," he added.
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The deputy assistant secretary of State for Iraq and Iran said in a recent interview that the Trump administration is not pursuing regime change in Iran.
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"After all the experience we've had with regime change, I think we're out of that business," a senior member of Trump's foreign-policy team told me.
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Also interviewed was Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the NCRI, about her goal to break the spell of repression and herald regime change from within Iran.
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North Korea and Iran held a special place in his heart, writing that America should attack them for pursuing nuclear weapons and even advocating regime change.
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" Gabbard said Americans "are calling for an end to this ongoing Bush-Clinton-Trump foreign policy doctrine of regime change wars, overthrowing dictators in other countries.
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"It would demonstrate the failure of the American strategy of unlawful regime change and the success of the Russian line of supporting legitimate power," he wrote.
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Bolton and Netanyahu also saw eye to eye on possible military options against Iran's nuclear program and on the need to explore avenues for regime change.
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But the United States' agenda in Venezuela is tightly linked to the administration's pursuit of regime change in Cuba, as Mr. Bolton has repeatedly made clear.
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Mr. Trump needs to stick with the broad coalition on Venezuela, eschew any suggestion of military action there and any reference to regime change in Cuba.
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If the US assesses that the Kim regime has bad intentions for the people of the US, regime change by military force could come into play.
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There are protests in the streets and they want regime change in Iran as well and they want to replace Rouhani with someone even more hard-line.
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In Moscow's eyes, the attacks mark a return to an American policy of interventionism and "regime change", which Russia blames for bringing chaos to the Middle East.
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There was, she said, the Bolton view, in which Iran is an evil actor and US policy should move the country in the direction of regime change.
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Pompeo is known for his aggressive foreign policy stances, including his opposition to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and his support of regime change in North Korea.
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Gabbard repeatedly called for an end to the "regime change war" in Syria and claimed US policy was helping terrorist groups in the country, like Al Qaeda.
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After decades of opposition to the North Korean regime, the great irony now is that advocating regime change has become a fringe position, even among former proponents.
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Trump stopped short of demanding regime change, which North Korea regards as the ultimate American intention and treats as a reason for its development of nuclear weapons.
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But what Zakaria is certain of is that Putin believes Clinton encouraged political opposition to his reelection efforts in 2012, which he viewed as attempted regime change.
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Russia, on the other hand, saw the Obama administration's lukewarm approach towards regime change in Syria an opportunity to affirm its own political standing towards the West.
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Now I think an area in kind of a vague way, or not so vague, where Secretary Clinton and I disagree is the area of regime change.
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In the world of geopolitics and security, this is regime change by other means -- overthrowing, in effect, the will of the people by way of a cyberattack.
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The big picture: The U.S. is calling for a regime change in Venezuela and it has previously raised concerns for the safety of Americans in the country.
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A longtime Iran hawk, Pompeo has spoken positively about regime change in the past, but in his confirmation hearing last month he sought to soften that stance.
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Although temporary misalignments of fixed exchange rates are bound to occur in the event of shocks, regime change may not be optimal for economic and financial stability.
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Experts are now drawing parallels between the contest for influence over Venezuela's political and economic future with the battle over regime change in Syria in recent years.
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It was left to Mattis, speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, to clarify that America's policy was still primarily geared towards destroying ISIS and not regime change.
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North Korea has long maintained that the only way to protect itself against US-led attempts at regime change is through the threat of a nuclear attack.
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For the East Coast Straussians, regime change is a matter of foreign policy, as witness the failed attempt to democratize the Middle East by force under Bush.
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" In a later interview, Trump went further, endorsing outright regime change: "if you don't get rid of [Qaddafi], it's a major, major black eye for this country.
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When asked if he meant he was advocating regime change, Pompeo denied that was necessarily what he was talking about but seemed to suggest advocating Kim's ouster.
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Tillerson insisted the Trump administration was not advocating "regime change" in Venezuela but said it would be "easiest" if Maduro chose to leave power on his own.
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The comments Thursday from Ahmadinejad comes amidst a turbulent period for Iran in which analysts have been left wondering if a regime change is on the horizon .
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The United States has said it doesn't seek regime change, but North Korea says it needs to develop its weapons program to prevent an imminent US invasion.
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We know what Cheney was angling for during this conversation—the lingering conservative dream of imposing regime change on Iraq, and then brokering access to its oil.
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" After providing such reassurances that the United States was absolutely not seeking regime change, he warned, "The best thing he could do is to make a deal.
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But missing from the news conferences was the hard-core group in the leadership that remains deeply suspicious that Washington's real long-term goal is regime change.
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In March, McMaster was replaced by John Bolton, who took a much harder line against the Palestinians and who has long advocated for regime change in Iran.
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While the United States and Brazil both ruled out directly military strikes against Maduro, Trump and Bolsonaro have ample motivations to make hay of regime change abroad.
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"The policy of the United States should be regime change in Iran," said Cotton, who reportedly briefs the White House on foreign policy on a regular basis.
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Trump, meanwhile, has publicly expressed doubt about the prospect of U.S. forces being used for regime change in Iran, telling reporters that he believes negotiations are possible.
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Trump said Monday that he would not push for regime change in the country, while reiterating the U.S. position against the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Iran.
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Bolton, who has spent decades watching and working on Pyongyang, has advocated for regime change and largely been shut out of this most recent attempt at diplomacy.
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To some degree, the U.S. is already doing that by holding increasingly large military exercises with ally South Korea that include rehearsals for regime change in Pyongyang.
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Critics have accused the Trump administration of pursuing a pro-regime change agenda for Iran, particularly as it expressed support for protests against the government last year.
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Pompeo laid out a lengthy list of demands on Iran a year ago that critics inside and outside Tehran said showed he was pushing for regime change.
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In hindsight, it appears the administration believed these claims, but that its primary motivation had in fact been the lofty goals of regime change and democracy promotion.
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U.S. officials said these Cubans likely suspected that Obama, despite his talk of a fresh start, had the same objective as his predecessors: regime change in Havana.
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It is interesting that Frum criticizes President Eisenhower for his peaceful outreach to Nasser but does not mention our failures at regime change in Iran and Iraq.
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Many believe the US wants to drive a wedge between Iran's leadership and the Iranian people with the potential goal of regime change, which Washington has denied.
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According to artist, art critic and independent curator Ruben Arevshatyan, contextual and paradigmatic shifts deriving from political or regime change assume the consequent elimination of certain symbols.
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When resistance movements decided instead to confront authoritarian regimes at the polls — authoritarians from Pinochet to Milosevic — they had a much greater chance of producing regime change.
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"He's very clear that there should be regime change in Iran and North Korea, and military force should be used to achieve those goals," Mr. McFaul said.
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The goal, pressed most forcefully by the national security adviser, John Bolton, seems clear: to strangle Iran's oil-dependent economy and lay the ground for regime change.
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Iranian leaders think that the United States has cheated Iran and walked away from the deal to strangle Iran's economy, break its state and force regime change.
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Earlier in the day, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson suggested that Assad's chemical attacks could lead to a U.S.-led intervention in support of a regime change.
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"Washington and other Western capitals have impeded potential progress through their often hypocritical focus on ideas such as democratization, inequality, corruption and regime change," Mr. Page said.
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Trump's people forcefully said "regime change is something that we think is going to happen" but were far less clear about when or how that might happen.
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"We want to restore democracy there," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said last week, walking just to the edge of declaring that regime change is the goal.
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In the absence of a foreign policy victory in Venezuela, President Trump's economic embargo on the country shows his sights resettling on the prospect of regime change.
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The 1953 Coup, engineered by the CIA and MI-5, would be the last regime change carried out by the British and the first by the Americans.
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But her take on Syria's president, the Syrian civil war and its related conflicts — which she conspicuously labeled a "regime change" — differs greatly from her fellow candidates.
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"The slaughter of the Kurds being done by Turkey is yet another negative consequence of the regime change war that we've been raging in Syria," she said.
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The lessons of America's misadventure in regime change in Libya need to be applied to today's policies in places such as Iran, Syria, Venezuela and North Korea.
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Australians did not invade Vietnam in order to effect regime change; they intervened, with approval, to defend a regime in Saigon, not to overturn one in Hanoi.
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Trump and many of his aides often send mixed messages on what they seek from Iran, the critics said — ranging from regime change to narrow nuclear talks.
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Despite major differences on Iraq and the wisdom of U.S. regime change policies, Trump and Bolton do relish defying Washington foreign policy orthodoxy on several key issues.
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The announcement came hours after the C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo, strongly hinted that President Trump was considering seeking regime change in response to the North's nuclear capacity.
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But its claims it is not seeking regime change were undermined by its elimination of Soleimani — the most powerful Iranian leader barring Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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At least two of those groups have been accused of carrying out terrorist activities in Vietnam with the purpose of achieving regime change in the communist nation.
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"We're not doing regime-change operations," Ilan Goldenberg, a former Pentagon and State Department specialist who is now at the Center for a New American Security, said.
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Pressed for a response to the reported comments, Haley denied the US sought "regime change," but also described the relationship between the two countries in stark terms.
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HRNK's work, and that of the United Nations human rights committee, have effectively made the case for regime change in North Korea in one form or another.
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Before the defense minister spoke on Thursday, Russia accused the United States of promoting regime change in Venezuela, warning of the "catastrophic consequences" of destabilizing the country.
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" In a later interview, he went further, endorsing outright regime change: "if you don't get rid of Gaddafi, it's a major, major black eye for this country.
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If the measure passes, it would send a message to the Trump administration and specifically Bolton, who before joining Trump's team called for regime change in Iran.
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Mr. Maduro's foreign allies might find the means to defend their own interests — for example, their claims on Venezuela's oil — by supporting him or delaying regime change.
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Even if the Trump team had a global majority—which it doesn't, with only 50 out of 195 countries worldwide backing Venezuelan regime change—their deadly economic sanctions, theft of assets, military threats, and other actions to topple Venezuela's government would be no more legal or legitimate than George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, or the many U.S.-led regime change efforts that have taken place in this hemisphere.
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The United States has sought for decades to bring about regime change in Cuba through a series of failed strategies that included the use of force and subterfuge.
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Flynn's views, in short, align closely with Trump's and in some cases are more extreme, since not even Trump is advocating regime change in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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To get there, China and the US will have to somehow jointly reassure the skittish and youthful Kim that he will not be the victim of regime change.
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Inside the White House, the national security adviser has tempered his message on Iran to say the US doesn't seek regime change and has not said much publicly.
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Andrew Peek, deputy U.S. assistant secretary for the bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department, denied the pressure campaign aimed to force regime change in Iran.
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Pompeo insisted that it wasn't, often by reinterpreting what he'd said in the past or flatly contradicting himself, most notably when it came to regime change in Iran.
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Our negotiators must make him see that we are not after regime change, and that trade with Japan and South Korea will be more profitable than selling WMDs.
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But he and other officials continued to emphasize diplomatic and economic pressure as a way to help oust Maduro, as opposed to a U.S.-military led regime change.
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Just as declaratory policy and re-assurance to the Korean regime that if they don&apost retaliate, we&aposre not going to go for regime change right away.
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That isn't likely to go down well with the US and the opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC), which want to see regime change, rather than a divided Syria.
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Details: Set against the backdrop of the national campaign calling for a regime change, the Post also reports that Weddle's assistant, Venezuelan journalist Carlos Camacho, has been released.
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A source who discussed Venezuela with Trump said that while the president agreed with Bolton on the need for regime change, the president grew irritated at Bolton's aggression.
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Trump, National Security Adviser John Bolton, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have pursued a "maximum pressure" campaign against the country in a likely effort at regime change.
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Fareed Zahran, head of the Egyptian Democratic Social Party, said the target of the call for regime change was not Sisi, but rules and regulations that shackle freedoms.
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If it were an international force with the Chinese in it, it would be very unlikely that we would come trotting up into North Korea for regime change.
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"I think this is a regime change and the BOJ's main policy tool is now negative interest rates," said Daiju Aoki, an economist at UBS Securities in Tokyo.
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While Trump has signaled a pivot away from regime change as a policy objective — a move likely to ease tensions with Russia — he should not take Russia lightly.
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Sanders voted in 1998 on what I think is fair to call a regime change resolution with respect to Iraq, calling for the end of Saddam Hussein's regime.
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Tillerson said that the US would "much prefer a diplomatic solution to this problem" and stressed that Washington was not interested in regime change or destabilizing the region.
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Iran's new missile production line: Som in Iran "view Iranian nuclear weapons as a powerful option to prevent regime change activities by the Islamic Republic's enemies," Heras said.
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Beyond supporting Congresswoman Gabbard, I would propose the following two pronged test to precede the application of military force or rendering of aid to entities seeking regime change.
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Just last week, the Trump administration balked at the notion of regime change in Syria, and his advisers have been struggling to articulate a coherent position ever since.
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The former New York City mayor also suggested over the weekend that Trump was in favor of regime change in Iran, which runs counter to official US policy.
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It would allow the United States to assuage Pyongyang's fear of invasion and regime change, in exchange for something meaningful in return, perhaps a freeze on missile testing.
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The MEK believes regime change is needed in Iran as Tehran remains the main source of Islamic fundamentalism and is the number one state sponsor of international terrorism.
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While national security adviser John Bolton has denied the Trump administration is seeking regime change in Iran, he and other officials have escalated their rhetoric toward Iranian leadership.
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The Brexiteers are in some ways more remarkable than the neocons, who had only to outmanoeuvre the American defence-and-intelligence establishment, which preferred containment to regime change.
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Regime change in Iraq has cost the United States thousands of lives and trillions of dollars, embroiling us in a generational war which has not benefited American security.
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Many possible Trump cabinet candidates vehemently oppose the Iran nuclear deal and/or have supported the main Iranian opposition MEK in its call for regime change in Iran.
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"If they come to believe that the U.S. and the regional partners are pursuing regime change, I think we could get a very nasty Iranian response," she said.
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Yet, to solve the North Korean nuclear threat, Mr. Trump says China should make North Korea's leader "disappear," and Mr. Kasich argues for regime change, both risky options.
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In the months after the Inauguration, as I watched that rhetoric turn to action, the tactics and personae started to remind me of another experience with regime change.
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The minister called Ethiopia "an African face for other countries with a regime change agenda" and said it had initiated an unprovoked military attack against Eritrea on Sunday.
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The US may well be one major war away from the collapse of American democracy, most likely a war with Iran for the regime change that Trump seeks.
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But when Gabbard characterized US involvement in Syria as an unnecessary "regime change war" and advocated for the US to withdraw from the region, Buttigieg firmly pushed back.
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The United States has publicly disavowed regime change as an objective, offered negotiations without preconditions, and highlighted the small number of additional troops being sent to the region.
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" "This administration intends to come up with options based on the cards we are dealt; not try to change the deck entirely, which is what regime change is.
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Tillerson insisted that America's policy remains a denuclearized North Korea, not regime change, but it's apparent that relations between North Korea and the United States are increasingly strained.
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Now, that role is likely to be filled by Mr. Pompeo, who has effectively pushed for regime change in North Korea and even alluded to assassinating Mr. Kim.
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And Mr. Trump has recently distanced himself from the White House national security adviser, John R. Bolton, who publicly advocated regime change for years before joining the administration.
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And the battle against the Islamic State was deliberately framed as a mission that combined counterterrorism and humanitarian assistance, rather than state-building or regime change in Syria.
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We love to laugh, and I am pretty sure up until this point there's been no regime change because we have such a good sense of the absurd.
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In March, when he appointed John Bolton, who has called for regime change in Iran, as his national security adviser, it was clear which direction things were headed.
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There is a small chance that sanctions could lead to the overthrow of Iran's government, but the administration has repeatedly insisted that regime change is not its goal.
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But Moya-Ocampos said that while the strike was successful in causing chaos, it failed to bring the opposition any closer to its main objective of regime change.
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It is planned a day after Mr. Tillerson said the United States was not seeking regime change in North Korea and would be willing to talk to Pyongyang.
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It is so contrary that while a U.S.-Vietnam friendship was always a possibility, a U.S.-Iran friendship is an absolute impossibility, absent one major modification: regime change.
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But while Trump did follow up the strike with more extreme threats, he also made sure to insist he does not support war or "regime change" in Iran.
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While no effective foreign policy is without risk, emulating Reagan has the best chance of bringing about regime change in Iran without the costs of going to war.
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MARACAIBO, Venezuela — Venezuela's opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, defied a travel ban and crossed into Colombia on Sunday to round up greater international support for regime change in Venezuela.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a new interview that the United States has never let go of its push for regime change in his country.
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It was easier for the leaders to sign on to this missile attack, as there was no discussion about a far-reaching military campaign or about regime change.
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The Bush version was directed by foreign policy advisers who thought of the world predominantly in Cold War terms; they stressed power projection, territorial control and regime change.
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Bolton also said there are three options the United States needs to look at for North Korea: regime change, Korean unification under a democratic system or military force.
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The announcement came only hours after Mike Pompeo, the director of the C.I.A., strongly hinted that the United States was considering seeking a regime change in North Korea.
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For them, there's always an easy, slapdash, cost-free revolution: Just use the right hashtag on Instagram and you, too, can spark regime change in the Arab world.
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During last week's Democratic debate, Gabbard, who has been critical of U.S. presence in Syria, accused politicians from both parties of supporting a "regime change war" in Syria.
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But in the essay he also wrote in more ambitious terms about forcing regime change through data and technology rather than through the old, barbaric means of assassination.
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Key nodes of that system that must be disabled for regime change to become possible — a change that can only be finalized by the North Korean people themselves.
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The risk of revolution or regime change by internal or external agencies is totally ruled out, which explains the lack of violent reaction or panic by the authorities.
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MORE (R-Ariz.) echoed Tillerson's view, saying "it's time the Iranian people had a free and open society and a functioning democracy," effectively a call for regime change.
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"Sanctions are rarely an effective tool for total regime change," said Shannon O'Neil, vice president and deputy director for Latin American studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Sixteen full years of U.S. military occupations in the Greater Middle East and a 2003 Iraq regime change have simply tarnished the American brand regionally, perhaps beyond repair.
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Since then, she has earned a reputation for her opposition to American military intervention and "regime change" efforts abroad — and for sometimes breaking from the Democratic Party line.
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Americans are not very good at remembering our mistakes, and Sanders is correct to raise those lessons, particularly the dangers of regime change, in how they apply today.
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Addressing the subject with the North is particularly difficult given that Kim&aposs government is believed to view the raising of human rights as tantamount to advocating regime change.
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President Bashar Assad, with military and political assistance from Iran and Russia, has recaptured 60 percent of the country, putting an end to any serious talk of regime change.
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The president understands that absent a clear and present threat to U.S. security, it is not generally wise for America to be involved in regime change in other countries.
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US officials have stated that the Trump administration is not pursuing a policy of regime change in Iran but is instead working to pressure Tehran into changing its behavior.
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His convention speech explicitly called for abandoning "the failed policy of nation building and regime change" — policies he linked to Clinton but most famously identified with George W. Bush.
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Both think the US was unprepared for the aftermath of Qaddafi's fall, and that the international community failed to head off the chaos that predictably came from regime change.
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She bizarrely blamed the "regime change war" for the Syrian refugee crisis, instead of the murderous regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which has indiscriminately attacked populated areas.
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In 2009, US intelligence prepared a mock National Intelligence Estimate entitled "Regime Change in North Korea" to assess the vulnerability and hierarchy of North Korea decision-making and leadership.
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He walked back past comments that seemed to endorse war with Iran and regime change in North Korea, leading to serious confusion from Democrats on the Foreign Relations committee.
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In electing Donald Trump as president, the American people spoke out loud and clear: no more wars of regime change that could cost the U.S. taxpayer trillions of dollars.
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The United States was not pushing for regime change and preferred a negotiated solution, but Pyongyang, for its own sake, should dismantle its nuclear and missile programs, he said.
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National security adviser John Bolton has long hoped for "the overthrow of the mullahs' regime in Tehran," though the Trump administration claims its official policy is not regime change.
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