Opinion: Regime change through air strikes is a superficial action — how do you achieve long-term stability?
Last updated: 2nd March 2026
What comes next after the death of Ayatollah Khamenei? Confusion. Regime change is never truly that; a smooth transition relies heavily on soft change rather than decapitation.
Soft Change Is Sustainable
Looking at modern regime change, the process is far from seamless and rarely conducted in an orderly manner. Iraq remains in a state of anxiety, Libya is locked in a brutal power vacuum, while Syria speaks for itself.
Iran will likely face an extreme set of possibilities, the first being the continued escalation of war across the Middle East. The second is civil war, while the third is the unknown, the worst of all.
Though Donald Trump is the problem of today, United States foreign policy runs amok across the globe, keeping much of the world in a state of poverty at the behest of the West.
If the United States wants true regime change, it happens through diplomacy, understanding, and collaboration, three things Washington is far from skilled in. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar, an idiom the White House refuses to believe. With a profitable military-industrial complex behind it, the problem is that the USA is trigger-happy and unwilling to negotiate. The bigger question is: what gives them the right to impose change without public consent?
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