Working with a Congress controlled by your allies, rather than by your adversaries, means having to provide a more significant degree of leadership on the intricacies of policy than Reagan did, while at the same time avoiding the appearance that you are trying to dictate the result.
I'm operating under the assumption that you don't have mind control over your allies, and both they and your enemies in this scenario would be like Terminators or the zombies from 28 Days Later in the sense that they'd be all kill, all the time.
But make sure that you or your allies control all the main television channels.
The inability of the National Congress Party to control important allies exposed the weakness of the coalition national government.
And in the case of the U.S., it's even more apparent that it cannot control its allies.
Worse (from Putin's point of view), it would embarrass Moscow by demonstrating it can't control its own allies.
Videla was succeeded in March 1981 by General Roberto Viola, who, with the Dirty War near its end, was quite unable to control his military allies.
They need to control their regional allies and direct them towards these goals.
In siding with the North, it sent a damaging signal to the South that it was unwilling or unable to control its ally.
But within months he was plagued by a series of personal scandals -- from revelations about extravagant spending to a daughter born out of wedlock -- that provided ample fodder for a press still controlled by allies of the former president.
