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Some experts argue that even a successful uprising would not reliably produce a U.S.-friendly successor government. “There’s a low likelihood that a successor state would be a liberal democracy friendly to the United States,” said Rosemary Kelanic of Defense Priorities, in remarks cited by The New York Times, noting the legacy of a war with the United States would shape any new order.
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