You do realize we’ve toppled more unfavorable to us regimes than anyone in the past ~120 or so years, right? The real difference is that no one can really pull the rug out from under us, but that’s changing because we’ve offshored so much, hoping that if anything our world beating military would intervene.
I would do everything in my power to isolate and fight against a country engaging in a war of conquest in the modern era. For me it would not be a choice.