I was thinking Suharto deposing Sukarno in Indonesia.
A general deposes a revolutionary hero and president-for-life who has outstayed his welcome and whose shenanigans, economic incompetence, absurd foreign policy, lavish lifestyle and lack of clear successor has just pissed off too many vested interests.
The end result is the same, everyone breathes a sigh of relief and sits back and waits for the purges to begin, new president installs himself, gets too comfortable, repeat process again.
“I was thinking Suharto deposing Sukarno in Indonesia.”
I would swap Indonesia for Zimbabwe anytime, anywhere if I lived in Zimbabwe.