And what do they care? They’ll just as quickly and easily vote (if they even HAVE to these days) to send our men/women into these 3rd world hellholes to clean up the mess that they themselves started.
Long as people have their bread and circuses, Rome can do as it wishes.
“... Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses...”
(Juvenal, Satires 10:77 — commenting on the condition of his ancient Rome under Emperor Domitian, after the fall of the Republic of course......)