The point isn't whether or not he won, because no one can know for sure. The point is that allowing uncertainty in whether it was legitimate to serve as a justification for removing a leader is a dangerous position (if it were to be applied generally, which obviously it won't be).
I agree with you. This is something that really only the U.S. could do and escape scott free. If even Europe tried to do this I think there would be hell to pay but because its the US and in the US backyard people/countries are more like... eh
The point isn't whether or not he won, because no one can know for sure. The point is that allowing uncertainty in whether it was legitimate to serve as a justification for removing a leader is a dangerous position (if it were to be applied generally, which obviously it won't be).