There's historically been a whole list of neo colonial "adventurers" out to forment coups just to make some cash and damn the population to poverty, violence and chaos. And you better believe it's all done with an approving nod by the Western powers.
"And you better believe it's all done with an approving nod by the Western powers."
Maybe often, but surely not always. The recent coup d'etat in Mali for example was certainly not approved by the west (or went out of hands) as the new government rather shifts to china and russia.
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