A similar thing happened in Ukraine after the Maidan coup by the way, the US just went and installed a US citizen as one of their top ministers... economy or finance i believe. It happens more often than you think. There have been other such instances in Eastern Europe, where suddenly a person who had barely anything to do with the country other than maybe their parents being from there suddenly ended up in a top position and they just so happen to come from a western country, have been educated in western institutions, worked for a western government or NGO and so on. The most blatant colonialism and nobody bats an eye.