chapotraphouse

Honestly this is a good default stance, I respect that.

Without a complex and nuanced model of the world, it's incredibly difficult and exhausting to parse through layers of propaganda and ideology to figure out what actually happened (in any historical context, not just this).

If you're interested in developing your understanding some more, learning about the existence/possibility of color revolutions helped fill in a lot of gaps for me. Broadly speaking they're when a foreign actor either foments or co-opts social unrest, which it uses to destabilize and eventually overthrow a government that doesn't align with the foreign actor's interests. The Jakarta Method is a great read for learning about this.