There sure are a lot of them

The list was compiled in 2002 so it’s missing a lot of contemporary ones.

with the purpose of effecting “regime change,” attempted or materially supported by the United States—whether primarily by means of overt force (OF), covert operation (CO), or subverted election (SE):

1893 – Hawaii (Liliuokalani; monarchist): success (OF)
1912 – China (Piyu; monarchist): success (OF)
1918 – Panama (Arias; center-right): success (SE)
1919 – Hungary (Kun; communist): success (CO)
1920 – USSR (Lenin; communist): failure (OF)
1924 – Honduras (Carias; nationalist): success (SE)
1934 – United States (Roosevelt; liberal): failure (CO)
1945 – Japan (Higashikuni; rightist): success (OF)
1946 – Thailand (Pridi; conservative): success (CO)
1946 – Argentina (Peron; military/centrist): failure (SE)
1947 – France (; communist): success (SE)
1947 – Philippines (; center-left): success (SE)
1947 – Romania (Gheorghiu-Dej; stalinist): failure (CO)
1948 – Italy (, communist): success (SE)
1948 – Colombia (Gaitan; populist/leftist): success (SE)
1948 – Peru (Bustamante; left/centrist): success (CO)
1949 – Syria (Kuwatli; neutralist/Pan-Arabist): success (CO)
1949 – China (Mao; communist): failure (CO)
1950 – Albania (Hoxha; communist): failure (CO)
1951 – Bolivia (Paz; center/neutralist): success (CO)
1951 – DPRK (Kim; stalinist): failure (OF)
1951 – Poland (Cyrankiewicz; stalinist): failure (CO)
1951 – Thailand (Phibun; conservative): success (CO)
1952 – Egypt (Farouk; monarchist): success (CO)
1952 – Cuba (Prio; reform/populist): success (CO)
1952 – Lebanon (; left/populist): success: (SE)
1953 – British Guyana (; left/populist): success (CO)
1953 – Iran (Mossadegh; liberal nationalist): success (CO)
1953 – Costa Rica (Figueres; reform liberal): failure (CO)
1953 – Philippines (; center-left): success (SE)
1954 – Guatemala (Arbenz; liberal nationalist): success (OF)
1955 – Costa Rica (Figueres; reform liberal): failure (CO)
1955 – India (Nehru; neutralist/socialist): failure(CO)
1955 – Argentina (Peron; military/centrist): success (CO)
1955 – China (Zhou; communist): failure (CO)
1955 – Vietnam (Ho; communist): success (SE)
1956 – Hungary (Hegedus; communist): success (CO)
1957 – Egypt (Nasser; military/nationalist): failure (CO)
1957 – Haiti (Sylvain; left/populist): success (CO)
1957 – Syria (Kuwatli; neutralist/Pan-Arabist): failure (CO)
1958 – Japan (; left-center): success (SE)
1958 – Chile (; leftists): success (SE)
1958 – Iraq (Feisal; monarchist): success (CO)
1958 – Laos (Phouma; nationalist): success (CO)
1958 – Sudan (Sovereignty Council; nationalist): success (CO)
1958 – Lebanon (; leftist): success (SE)
1958 – Syria (Kuwatli; neutralist/Pan-Arabist): failure (CO)
1958 – Indonesia (Sukarno; militarist/neutralist): failure (SE)
1959 – Laos (Phouma; nationalist): success (CO)
1959 – Nepal (; left-centrist): success (SE)
1959 – Cambodia (Sihanouk; moderate/neutralist): failure (CO)
1960 – Ecuador (Ponce; left/populist): success (CO)
1960 – Laos (Phouma; nationalist): success (CO)
1960 – Iraq (Qassem; rightist /militarist): failure (CO)
1960 – S. Korea (Syngman; rightist): success (CO)
1960 – Turkey (Menderes; liberal): success (CO)
1961 – Haiti (Duvalier; rightist/militarist): success (CO)
1961 – Cuba (Castro; communist): failure (CO)
1961 – Congo (Lumumba; leftist/pan-Africanist): success (CO)
1961 – Dominican Republic (Trujillo; rightwing/military): success (CO)
1962 – Brazil (Goulart; liberal/neutralist): failure (SE)
1962 – Dominican Republic (; left/populist): success (SE)
1962 – Indonesia (Sukarno; militarist/neutralist): failure (CO)
1963 – Dominican Republic (Bosch; social democrat): success (CO)
1963 – Honduras (Montes; left/populist): success (CO)
1963 – Iraq (Qassem; militarist/rightist): success (CO)
1963 – S. Vietnam (Diem; rightist): success (CO)
1963 – Cambodia (Sihanouk; moderate/neutralist): failure (CO)
1963 – Guatemala (Ygidoras; rightist/reform): success (CO)
1963 – Ecuador (Velasco; reform militarist): success (CO)
1963 – United States (Kennedy; liberal): success (CO)
1964 – Guyana (Jagan; populist/reformist): success (CO)
1964 – Bolivia (Paz; centrist/neutralist): success (CO)
1964 – Brazil (Goulart; liberal/neutralist): success (CO)
1964 – Chile (Allende; social democrat/marxist): success (SE)
1965 – Indonesia (Sukarno; militarist/neutralist): success (CO)
1966 – Ghana (Nkrumah; leftist/pan-Africanist): success (CO)
1966 – Bolivia (; leftist): success (SE)
1966 – France (de Gaulle; centrist): failure (CO)
1967 – Greece (Papandreou; social democrat): success (CO)
1968 – Iraq (Arif; rightist): success (CO)
1969 – Panama (Torrijos; military/reform populist): failure (CO)
1969 – Libya (Idris; monarchist): success (CO)
1970 – Bolivia (Ovando; reform nationalist): success (CO)
1970 – Cambodia (Sihanouk; moderate/neutralist): success (CO)
1970 – Chile (Allende; social democrat/Marxist): failure (SE)
1971 – Bolivia (Torres; nationalist/neutralist): success (CO)
1971 – Costa Rica (Figueres; reform liberal): failure (CO)
1971 – Liberia (Tubman; rightist): success (CO)
1971 – Turkey (Demirel; center-right): success (CO)
1971 – Uruguay (Frente Amplio; leftist): success (SE)
1972 – El Salvador (; leftist): success (SE)
1972 – Australia (Whitlam; liberal/labor): failure (SE)
1973 – Chile (Allende; social democrat/Marxist): success (CO)
1974 – United States (Nixon; centrist): success (CO)
1975 – Australia (Whitlam; liberal/labor): success (CO)
1975 – Congo (Mobutu; military/rightist): failure (CO)
1975 – Bangladesh (Mujib; nationalist): success (CO)
1976 – Jamaica (Manley; social democrat): failure (SE)
1976 – Portugal (JNS; military/leftist): success (SE)
1976 – Nigeria (Mohammed; military/nationalist): success (CO)
1976 – Thailand (; rightist): success (CO)
1976 – Uruguay (Bordaberry; center-right): success (CO)
1977 – Pakistan (Bhutto: center/nationalist): success (CO)
1978 – Dominican Republic (Balaguer; center): success (SE)
1979 – S. Korea (Park; rightist): success (CO)
1979 – Nicaragua (Sandinistas; leftist): failure (CO)
1980 – Bolivia (Siles; centrist/reform): success (CO)
1980 – Iran (Khomeini; Islamic nationalist): failure (CO)
1980 – Italy (; leftist): success (SE)
1980 – Liberia (Tolbert; rightist): success (CO)
1980 – Jamaica (Manley; social democrat): success (SE)
1980 – Dominica (Seraphin; leftist): success (SE)
1980 – Turkey (Demirel; center-right): success (CO)
1981 – Seychelles (René; socialist): failure (CO)
1981 – Spain (Suarez; rightist/neutralist): failure (CO)
1981 – Panama (Torrijos; military/reform populist); success (CO)
1981 – Zambia (Kaunda; reform nationalist): failure (CO)
1982 – Mauritius (; center-left): failure (SE)
1982 – Spain (Suarez; rightist/neutralist): success (SE)
1982 – Iran (Khomeini; Islamic nationalist): failure (CO)
1982 – Chad (Oueddei; Islamic nationalist): success (CO)
1983 – Mozambique (Machel; socialist): failure (CO)
1983 – Grenada (Bishop; socialist): success (OF)
1984 – Panama (; reform/centrist): success (SE)
1984 – Nicaragua (Sandinistas; leftist): failure (SE)
1984 – Surinam (Bouterse; left/reformist/neutralist): success (CO)
1984 – India (Gandhi; nationalist): success (CO)
1986 – Libya (Qaddafi; Islamic nationalist): failure (OF)
1987 – Fiji (Bavrada; liberal): success (CO)
1989 – Panama (Noriega; military/reform populist): success (OF)
1990 – Haiti (Aristide; liberal reform): failure (SE)
1990 – Nicaragua (Ortega; Christian socialist): success (SE)
1991 – Albania (Alia; communist): success (SE)
1991 – Haiti (Aristide; liberal reform): success (CO)
1991 – Iraq (Hussein; military/rightist): failure (OF)
1991 – Bulgaria (BSP; communist): success (SE)
1992 – Afghanistan (Najibullah; communist): success (CO)
1993 – Somalia (Aidid; right/militarist): failure (OF)
1993 – Cambodia (Han Sen/CPP; leftist): failure (SE)
1993 – Burundi (Ndadaye; conservative): success (CO)
1994 – El Salvador (; leftist): success (SE)
1994 – Rwanda (Habyarimana; conservative): success (CO)
1994 – Ukraine (Kravchuk; center-left): success (SE)
1996 – Bosnia (Karadzic; centrist): success (CO)
1996 – Russia (Zyuganov; communist): success (SE)
1996 – Congo (Mobutu; military/rightist): success (CO)
1996 – Mongolia (*; center-left): success (SE)
1998 – Congo (Kabila; rightist/military): success (CO)
1998 – United States (Clinton; conservative): failure (CO)
1998 – Indonesia (Suharto; military/rightist): success (CO)
1999 – Yugoslavia (Milosevic; left/nationalist): success (SE)
2000 – United States (Gore; conservative): success (SE)
2000 – Ecuador (NSC; leftist): success: (CO)
2001 – Afghanistan (Omar; rightist/Islamist): success (OF)
2001 – Belarus (Lukashenko; leftist): failure (SE)
2001 – Nicaragua (Ortega; Christian socialist): success (SE)
2001 – Nepal (Birendra; nationalist/monarchist): success (CO)
2002 – Venezuela (Chavez; reform-populist): failure (CO)
2002 – Bolivia (Morales; leftist/MAS): success (SE)
2002 – Brazil (Lula; center-left): failure (SE)

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The hardest part of establishing a socialist state isn't dealing with material conditions... it's dealing with the US constantly trying to overthrow it even if you're on the other side of the planet.
Here’s just the ones CIApedia is willing to admit to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
- This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. (February 2024)
  Jesus.
- Dang! We've been everywhere!
  
  We’ve got it down to a science. The blueprint of regime change operations
- some more here https://razedbywolves.blogspot.com/2021/08/a-detailed-chronological-list-of-us_5.html?m=1
  
  The list was compiled in 2002 so it’s missing a lot of contemporary ones.
  with the purpose of effecting “regime change,” attempted or materially supported by the United States—whether primarily by means of overt force (OF), covert operation (CO), or subverted election (SE):
  1893 – Hawaii (Liliuokalani; monarchist): success (OF)
  1912 – China (Piyu; monarchist): success (OF)
  1918 – Panama (Arias; center-right): success (SE)
  1919 – Hungary (Kun; communist): success (CO)
  1920 – USSR (Lenin; communist): failure (OF)
  1924 – Honduras (Carias; nationalist): success (SE)
  1934 – United States (Roosevelt; liberal): failure (CO)
  1945 – Japan (Higashikuni; rightist): success (OF)
  1946 – Thailand (Pridi; conservative): success (CO)
  1946 – Argentina (Peron; military/centrist): failure (SE)
  1947 – France (; communist): success (SE)
  1947 – Philippines (; center-left): success (SE)
  1947 – Romania (Gheorghiu-Dej; stalinist): failure (CO)
  1948 – Italy (, communist): success (SE)
  1948 – Colombia (Gaitan; populist/leftist): success (SE)
  1948 – Peru (Bustamante; left/centrist): success (CO)
  1949 – Syria (Kuwatli; neutralist/Pan-Arabist): success (CO)
  1949 – China (Mao; communist): failure (CO)
  1950 – Albania (Hoxha; communist): failure (CO)
  1951 – Bolivia (Paz; center/neutralist): success (CO)
  1951 – DPRK (Kim; stalinist): failure (OF)
  1951 – Poland (Cyrankiewicz; stalinist): failure (CO)
  1951 – Thailand (Phibun; conservative): success (CO)
  1952 – Egypt (Farouk; monarchist): success (CO)
  1952 – Cuba (Prio; reform/populist): success (CO)
  1952 – Lebanon (; left/populist): success: (SE)
  1953 – British Guyana (; left/populist): success (CO)
  1953 – Iran (Mossadegh; liberal nationalist): success (CO)
  1953 – Costa Rica (Figueres; reform liberal): failure (CO)
  1953 – Philippines (; center-left): success (SE)
  1954 – Guatemala (Arbenz; liberal nationalist): success (OF)
  1955 – Costa Rica (Figueres; reform liberal): failure (CO)
  1955 – India (Nehru; neutralist/socialist): failure(CO)
  1955 – Argentina (Peron; military/centrist): success (CO)
  1955 – China (Zhou; communist): failure (CO)
  1955 – Vietnam (Ho; communist): success (SE)
  1956 – Hungary (Hegedus; communist): success (CO)
  1957 – Egypt (Nasser; military/nationalist): failure (CO)
  1957 – Haiti (Sylvain; left/populist): success (CO)
  1957 – Syria (Kuwatli; neutralist/Pan-Arabist): failure (CO)
  1958 – Japan (; left-center): success (SE)
  1958 – Chile (; leftists): success (SE)
  1958 – Iraq (Feisal; monarchist): success (CO)
  1958 – Laos (Phouma; nationalist): success (CO)
  1958 – Sudan (Sovereignty Council; nationalist): success (CO)
  1958 – Lebanon (; leftist): success (SE)
  1958 – Syria (Kuwatli; neutralist/Pan-Arabist): failure (CO)
  1958 – Indonesia (Sukarno; militarist/neutralist): failure (SE)
  1959 – Laos (Phouma; nationalist): success (CO)
  1959 – Nepal (; left-centrist): success (SE)
  1959 – Cambodia (Sihanouk; moderate/neutralist): failure (CO)
  1960 – Ecuador (Ponce; left/populist): success (CO)
  1960 – Laos (Phouma; nationalist): success (CO)
  1960 – Iraq (Qassem; rightist /militarist): failure (CO)
  1960 – S. Korea (Syngman; rightist): success (CO)
  1960 – Turkey (Menderes; liberal): success (CO)
  1961 – Haiti (Duvalier; rightist/militarist): success (CO)
  1961 – Cuba (Castro; communist): failure (CO)
  1961 – Congo (Lumumba; leftist/pan-Africanist): success (CO)
  1961 – Dominican Republic (Trujillo; rightwing/military): success (CO)
  1962 – Brazil (Goulart; liberal/neutralist): failure (SE)
  1962 – Dominican Republic (; left/populist): success (SE)
  1962 – Indonesia (Sukarno; militarist/neutralist): failure (CO)
  1963 – Dominican Republic (Bosch; social democrat): success (CO)
  1963 – Honduras (Montes; left/populist): success (CO)
  1963 – Iraq (Qassem; militarist/rightist): success (CO)
  1963 – S. Vietnam (Diem; rightist): success (CO)
  1963 – Cambodia (Sihanouk; moderate/neutralist): failure (CO)
  1963 – Guatemala (Ygidoras; rightist/reform): success (CO)
  1963 – Ecuador (Velasco; reform militarist): success (CO)
  1963 – United States (Kennedy; liberal): success (CO)
  1964 – Guyana (Jagan; populist/reformist): success (CO)
  1964 – Bolivia (Paz; centrist/neutralist): success (CO)
  1964 – Brazil (Goulart; liberal/neutralist): success (CO)
  1964 – Chile (Allende; social democrat/marxist): success (SE)
  1965 – Indonesia (Sukarno; militarist/neutralist): success (CO)
  1966 – Ghana (Nkrumah; leftist/pan-Africanist): success (CO)
  1966 – Bolivia (; leftist): success (SE)
  1966 – France (de Gaulle; centrist): failure (CO)
  1967 – Greece (Papandreou; social democrat): success (CO)
  1968 – Iraq (Arif; rightist): success (CO)
  1969 – Panama (Torrijos; military/reform populist): failure (CO)
  1969 – Libya (Idris; monarchist): success (CO)
  1970 – Bolivia (Ovando; reform nationalist): success (CO)
  1970 – Cambodia (Sihanouk; moderate/neutralist): success (CO)
  1970 – Chile (Allende; social democrat/Marxist): failure (SE)
  1971 – Bolivia (Torres; nationalist/neutralist): success (CO)
  1971 – Costa Rica (Figueres; reform liberal): failure (CO)
  1971 – Liberia (Tubman; rightist): success (CO)
  1971 – Turkey (Demirel; center-right): success (CO)
  1971 – Uruguay (Frente Amplio; leftist): success (SE)
  1972 – El Salvador (; leftist): success (SE)
  1972 – Australia (Whitlam; liberal/labor): failure (SE)
  1973 – Chile (Allende; social democrat/Marxist): success (CO)
  1974 – United States (Nixon; centrist): success (CO)
  1975 – Australia (Whitlam; liberal/labor): success (CO)
  1975 – Congo (Mobutu; military/rightist): failure (CO)
  1975 – Bangladesh (Mujib; nationalist): success (CO)
  1976 – Jamaica (Manley; social democrat): failure (SE)
  1976 – Portugal (JNS; military/leftist): success (SE)
  1976 – Nigeria (Mohammed; military/nationalist): success (CO)
  1976 – Thailand (; rightist): success (CO)
  1976 – Uruguay (Bordaberry; center-right): success (CO)
  1977 – Pakistan (Bhutto: center/nationalist): success (CO)
  1978 – Dominican Republic (Balaguer; center): success (SE)
  1979 – S. Korea (Park; rightist): success (CO)
  1979 – Nicaragua (Sandinistas; leftist): failure (CO)
  1980 – Bolivia (Siles; centrist/reform): success (CO)
  1980 – Iran (Khomeini; Islamic nationalist): failure (CO)
  1980 – Italy (; leftist): success (SE)
  1980 – Liberia (Tolbert; rightist): success (CO)
  1980 – Jamaica (Manley; social democrat): success (SE)
  1980 – Dominica (Seraphin; leftist): success (SE)
  1980 – Turkey (Demirel; center-right): success (CO)
  1981 – Seychelles (René; socialist): failure (CO)
  1981 – Spain (Suarez; rightist/neutralist): failure (CO)
  1981 – Panama (Torrijos; military/reform populist); success (CO)
  1981 – Zambia (Kaunda; reform nationalist): failure (CO)
  1982 – Mauritius (; center-left): failure (SE)
  1982 – Spain (Suarez; rightist/neutralist): success (SE)
  1982 – Iran (Khomeini; Islamic nationalist): failure (CO)
  1982 – Chad (Oueddei; Islamic nationalist): success (CO)
  1983 – Mozambique (Machel; socialist): failure (CO)
  1983 – Grenada (Bishop; socialist): success (OF)
  1984 – Panama (; reform/centrist): success (SE)
  1984 – Nicaragua (Sandinistas; leftist): failure (SE)
  1984 – Surinam (Bouterse; left/reformist/neutralist): success (CO)
  1984 – India (Gandhi; nationalist): success (CO)
  1986 – Libya (Qaddafi; Islamic nationalist): failure (OF)
  1987 – Fiji (Bavrada; liberal): success (CO)
  1989 – Panama (Noriega; military/reform populist): success (OF)
  1990 – Haiti (Aristide; liberal reform): failure (SE)
  1990 – Nicaragua (Ortega; Christian socialist): success (SE)
  1991 – Albania (Alia; communist): success (SE)
  1991 – Haiti (Aristide; liberal reform): success (CO)
  1991 – Iraq (Hussein; military/rightist): failure (OF)
  1991 – Bulgaria (BSP; communist): success (SE)
  1992 – Afghanistan (Najibullah; communist): success (CO)
  1993 – Somalia (Aidid; right/militarist): failure (OF)
  1993 – Cambodia (Han Sen/CPP; leftist): failure (SE)
  1993 – Burundi (Ndadaye; conservative): success (CO)
  1994 – El Salvador (; leftist): success (SE)
  1994 – Rwanda (Habyarimana; conservative): success (CO)
  1994 – Ukraine (Kravchuk; center-left): success (SE)
  1996 – Bosnia (Karadzic; centrist): success (CO)
  1996 – Russia (Zyuganov; communist): success (SE)
  1996 – Congo (Mobutu; military/rightist): success (CO)
  1996 – Mongolia (*; center-left): success (SE)
  1998 – Congo (Kabila; rightist/military): success (CO)
  1998 – United States (Clinton; conservative): failure (CO)
  1998 – Indonesia (Suharto; military/rightist): success (CO)
  1999 – Yugoslavia (Milosevic; left/nationalist): success (SE)
  2000 – United States (Gore; conservative): success (SE)
  2000 – Ecuador (NSC; leftist): success: (CO)
  2001 – Afghanistan (Omar; rightist/Islamist): success (OF)
  2001 – Belarus (Lukashenko; leftist): failure (SE)
  2001 – Nicaragua (Ortega; Christian socialist): success (SE)
  2001 – Nepal (Birendra; nationalist/monarchist): success (CO)
  2002 – Venezuela (Chavez; reform-populist): failure (CO)
  2002 – Bolivia (Morales; leftist/MAS): success (SE)
  2002 – Brazil (Lula; center-left): failure (SE)
Remember! The US backed the biggest genocide after the Holocaust - the Bangladesh massacre of 1972, where 30 million people are estimated to have been murdered. The reason was that the Pakistani dictator who instigated the genocide was their ally. And they didn't like Mujib-ur-Rehman, the newly elected East Pakistani (Bangladeshi) leader, because he was a socialist! The US even tried to intervene militarily to help the war criminals, nearly starting a nuclear world war.
Democratic leaders tend to be pro-people. And that makes them US's enemies. The antidemocratic tag that the US has is well-deserved.
- Bangladesh was also going to become a socialist state, hence the name People's Republic of Bangladesh.
  One of the countless socialist movements across the world that were crushed with the USSR's overthrow...
Fun fact, I’m actually in one of the few countries they thought of couping, that they didn’t. Portugal in 1974 had a military staged coup against the dictatorship that ruled back then. It looked a lot like we were going to turn red, and Kissinger even said “let them be, it’ll remind Europe why communism doesn’t work”. Long story short, after a few nationalisations, an attempted coup by radical left, and some general weirdness, we managed to get ourselves a mostly working republic that still lasts to this day
- It’s almost like letting a people decide how to run their country for themselves leads to a more stable government. Who would have fucking thought
  
  The US thought, but then they changed their mind about 150 years later
  
  I mean, most revolutions end up pretty badly, maybe we just got lucky
- It's all those legal drugs that keep things going 👌
  
  Decriminalised != Legal
United States: I've even tried to coup myself a few times, calm down.
- Oh yeah, the business plot... I mean er, the brooks brothers riots, i mean er... Jan 6th.
  Huh, funny how it's always coming from a specific segment of society.
  
  Occupy wall street
  BLM
  JFK(?)
  (Adding for balance, not equivalence)
The same meme but it's the UK and one of the many countries that was left fucked up after British imperialism.