Promoting "democratic values" in your own allies:

Phillips Talbot, the US ambassador in Athens, disapproved of the military coup, complaining that it represented "a rape of democracy," to which Jack Maury, the CIA chief of station in Athens, answered,

"How can you rape a whore? pic.twitter.com/usmejFmr4L

— Ruchir Sharma (@ruchirsharma_1) June 4, 2021