it might surprise  you to learn that 'our' government overthrows governments it doesn't like;

The following video shows a 20-minute debate between The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal on the one hand, versus the U.S. Government’s coup-producing machine, the “National Endowment for Democracy” (NED), on the other, which latter (NED) was created in the 1980s to replace the CIA as being the organizer of coups (such as in 1953 Iran, 1954 Guatemala, 1973 Chile, and, then, finally, under NED, 2014 Ukraine). This is a debate regarding the NED’s historical record of planning and helping to carry out coups and attempted coups:.......more...........