I understand that a coup is destabilizing and, often, anti-democratic. I'm trying to see if, beyond my own western cultural way of thinking, there have been situations where coups didn't end up being too terrible for the inhabitants of the local people? Has it ever led to a good outcome?

I'm thinking about the Taliban in Afghanistan, and about how, if I understand correctly, the US government is particularly notorious for training and arming home grown organizations to overthrow goverments because it's convenient to them. The US only gets mad when their militants stop listening to their directives? My brain says 'Latin America?'

While we (probably) didn't directly arm them and tell them to do it this time, aren't there trails going back and back and back with the Taliban and the US?

What can history tell us about the citizens of countries that suffered a coups d'état?