regime-change

A denominal from regime change.

regime-change (third-person singular simple present regime-changes, present participle regime-changing, simple past and past participle regime-changed)

1. (informal, transitive, geopolitics, uncommon) To overthrow or replace an existing government or ruling authority, often through external intervention or political pressure.
   • 2004 May 25, Archimedes Plutonium, “USA, the society of Fat, Cut & Run; Iraq”, in talk.politics.theory‎^[1] (Usenet):

     In the past USA history, we often failed to regime change a single person, but our failure was not as gross of a mistake as Mr. Bush who sends the entire USA military to change a one person regime.

   • 2008 November 5, ah, “Re: If Obama Wins, Impeachment Begins”, in alt.media.republican-bias‎^[2] (Usenet):

     BTW, are they gonna' regime change Washington like they regime changed Baghdad? Let's hope. Any tickets for the hangings available yet? Ticketron seems to be sold out and isn't taking reservations.

   • 2017 August 30, Pelle Svanslös, “Why Kim Jong Un Isn’t Afraid of Donald Trump”, in rec.sport.tennis‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Lastly, if we give up our nuclear weapons we have nothing left. America cut a deal with Muammar al-Qaddafi to give up his weapons, and look at Libya now. Iraq’s Saddam Hussein actually stopped developing weapons, and they regime-changed him. With nuclear weapons, I control my destiny. Without them, I am toast.

   • 2021, W.A. Rivera, Iranian Strategic Influence, Information and the Culture of Resistance, page 159:

     The French bombarded Damascus, which they had regime-changed in 1920, in 1925, 1926, and 1945, and they pacified the city with martial law during most of the 'peaceful' intervals.

   • 2023 December 2, John Robinson, “Ukraine Goes Into Deep Defense, However, This May No Longer Save It - Military Summary For 2023/12/01 [10:11] December 01, 2023”, in (Usenet):

     cool good luck developing their own. Oh and US also signed the Bupapest Memorandum. Shame they broke that when they regime changed Ukraine in 2014

   • 2025 August 17, Lobo, “If I wanted to be the so called leader of the free world for awhile”, in Political Euwetopia‎^[4] (Usenet):

     It's true enough that we and the Soviets both did a lot of that during the Cold War, and we "regime changed" Iraq and Afghanistan through military force under Bush, Cheney and their neocons.