There have been about a hundred regime changes brought about by the USA

Often they involved tampering with elections. 

In Albania it involved creating a pyramid scheme which caused economic misery for years to get rid of a Prime Minister who was given his job originally because of US bribery. He offended the Americans by becoming too close to Turkey.

Foreign leaders captured by the USA since the end of the Cold War include Manuel Noriega (Panama), Saddam Hussein (Iraq), and Jean-Bertrand Aristide (Haiti) in 2024. 

Juan Orlando Hernández (Honduras) was arrested in Honduras in February 2022, extradited to the US, sentenced to 45 years in prison on drug trafficking charges and in November 2025 was pardoned by Donald Trump. (According to Max Blumenthal and Whitney Webb the CIA is closely involved in the drug business around the world.)

This is the context in which the illegal and murderous Russian invasion of Ukraine can be viewed.

The execution of the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, portrayed by Manet here, is also part of this long story.