Occupations and color revolutions are only so successful as the real gravity of the situation will allow.
Remember the US occupation of Afghanistan, and then Bush installed Hamid Karzai, who had some connection to Afghanistan, but he lived for decades and decades in the West. He was an ExxonMobil chief officer. He was friends with Condoleezza Rice, who comes out of the same milieu.
So, great, we have our American puppet, who's of Afghan descent, who speaks the language, and we're gonna put him in power in Kabul.
Within three or four or five years, he was saying, 'US forces have to go. The occupation must end,' because you can put a puppet in power, but all politics is local.
You can only build stable alliances like the people that are gonna put a đź’” under your car, right, physically are there on the ground. It's the people there.
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